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[Tee Kay]

 

[JohannaK]

I vote in favour of that.

 

[PicturesquePict]

Check also: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d6749156-410e-11e5-b98b-87c7270955cf.html

 

[gay_Aleks]

Strange. This map is insinuating that Americans don't know anything about Europe, yet they seem to realise that Kalinigrad is part of the "COMMIES" and not part of the buffer zone?

I'm apologising for this crappy, crappy map from all of Bulgaria.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Bump.

I'm south of LA but close enough.

 

[Hygro]

hahaha

 

[warpus]

Why are there so many Republicans around Disneyland? I thought California was a fairly progressive state, relatively speaking. Yet I don't see any markers for Democrats.

 

[Kyriakos]

Hm, Coachella is somewhat distant from civilization?

 

[Borachio]

For some reason, that map very much reminds me of Italy. It's probably the bit marked bikinis that does it.

edit: Oh no. That's not right. Apparently Italy is mostly composed of food.

 

[Hygro]

Why are there so many Republicans around Disneyland? I thought California was a fairly progressive state, relatively speaking. Yet I don't see any markers for Democrats.

Think about what is Disneyland and think about what is Republican.

We're more a microcosm of the country, with a (non-political) west-coast bent.

 

[Fr8monkey]

What is on the opposite side of the Earth from where you are right now?

Interactive Antipodes map

 

[cybrxkhan]

Why are there so many Republicans around Disneyland? I thought California was a fairly progressive state, relatively speaking. Yet I don't see any markers for Democrats.

It's being marked the because large parts of Orange County, which is where Disneyland is located, is known for being a bastion of conservatism and the GOP in the state (although a lot of the rural areas of California are more conservative anyways, not all of California is liberal/progressive/Democrat/whatever as one may think). Generally these conservative people in the OC - who to my knowledge are mainly concentrated in the coastal and southern parts of the county - tend to be wealthier upper-middle/upper class white families. Some of them are descended, if I remember correctly, from Midwestern migrant workers who came in the 30s due to the dust bowl. Another small contributor to this is that the Vietnamese-American community has generally been one of the few Asian groups that have traditionally been right-leaning (though it is changing with the younger generation of course).

TL;DR: Orange County has a lot of conservatives which clashes with the stereotype of California being a progressive hippieland, and as such is marked that way.

 

[Kyriakos]

What is on the opposite side of the Earth from where you are right now?

Interactive Antipodes map

Middle of ocean of nowhere, something between Australia and the Easter Island.

Is this about antipodes or metaphors?

 

[Borachio]

Nope. It's shark-infested sea all the way for me and my little head. (Though how my little frail rag of a body survives the transit through the solid iron-nickel core is a bit of a mystery.)

And for a lot of Europe, too. The nearest place to being the antipode of New Zealand is Portugal.

But let's face it, the Earth is "top" land-heavy, no matter how you look at it.

 

[Fr8monkey]

Well, sharks do inhabit 75% of the earth...

 

[JohannaK]

you know, if you live in Madrid the antipodes are in New Zealand indeed.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Hey, I can see Joan's house from here! If he lived in Madrid. And if he then lived in the antipode of Madrid.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Good ideas? Bad ideas?

Spoiler :

 

[madviking]

having boulder and provo in the same state can only lead to hilarity.

 

[Civ'ed]

Proulder