Guess the Map VI: Retroactive Cartographer

[Optical]

Urban population?

 

[W|M]

Population of State Capitals?

 

[Arakhor]

State economies?

 

[Borachio]

Number of electric vehicles?

 

[Mango Elephant]

Marijuana.

 

[Borachio]

Drink driving. Gang membership. Billboard advertising. States visited by the Pope. Number of taps in a house. People confessing to milk addiction. Public lending libraries.

 

[madviking]

Urban population?

Texas less than New Hampshire?

Population of State Capitals?

Concord, NH more than Austin, TX?

State economies?

Texas less than New Hampshire?

Number of electric vehicles?

Can't think of a retort here, but it's not it either.

Marijuana.

I bet you're all about that North Carolina marijuana, eh? But no.

Drink driving. Gang membership. Billboard advertising. States visited by the Pope. Number of taps in a house. People confessing to milk addiction. Public lending libraries.

Not even drunk driving.

Not gangs.

Not billboards.

Not states visited by the pope (why would he visit the wasteland of Arkansas?).

Not taps in a house.

Now you're not even trying.

Not libraries.

 

[JohannaK]

Hints!

 

[Borachio]

Households with more than two pets. People who prefer white cheese over yellow cheese (I heard about a scientific paper about this very subject on the radio yesterday). People with car pets, i.e. pets for their cars, rather than carpets for their houses. People attending evening classes in basketry. People with criminal records. Second marriages. Adult literacy. Taste in soft furnishings. Air-conditioning. Ability to swim. Ability to smile and whistle at the same time.

Am I getting warm?

 

[Mango Elephant]

Loans? Depression?

 

[madviking]

Nah nah.

It's about a social issue.

 

[Borachio]

What isn't about a social issue?

 

[madviking]

I don't want it to be too easy.

But a hint about the map: it recognizes only the top instance of something in each state.

 

[Mango Elephant]

The top position held by a woman in the state government.

 

[JohannaK]

Eeeeh, very wealthy people? As in, the 1 %.

Or top US universities, perhaps? Or hospitals...

 

[Leoreth]

The top position held by a woman in the state government.

Thought that too, but Alaska alone rules it out.

 

[Mango Elephant]

Ohhh, that's true. Abortions, then.

 

[madviking]

Or top US universities

dingdingdingding

US News and World Report US College Rankings 2012
red: 1 - 10
orange: 11 - 20
yellow: 21 - 30
lime: 31- 40
green: 41 - 50
light blue: 51 - 75
blue: 76 - 100
dark blue: 101 - 125
light purple: 126 - 150
dark purple: 151 - 175
gray: 176+

 

[JohannaK]

Yay, it suddenly struck me as I was about to post.

Open ground, I'm on my phone and I won't remember once I get home.

 

[Takhisis]

Optical should've got it -the last one- with 'drug use', but madviking has an Archer avatar so he wins the thread anyway.