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Thanks to my friend Patrick for the amazing link! I welcome Mr. Heppler and other cartophiles to offer their opinion of the impact this map may have on the Electoral College. I do find the stark split of Pennsylvania between pop and soda intriguing. Enjoy!
Should we tie Police Precincts in with Firestations and Public Ambulance?
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While Jolene Loetsher got beat up in the mayoral campaign over police
precincts, I didn’t think the idea itself was bad. They are used across the
state and...
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Out in the Boston area, in the mid-1950s, I discovered that there was a part of the country that didn't know what "pop" was, unless one called it "soda."
ReplyDeleteI also discovered that there were people that never thought of a jelly donut as a "Bismark."
My grandmother, from Boston, and my mother, from N. Adams, Mass., both called it "tonic." And their favorite kind was "Moxie."
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun map! H. and I spent some time over it, theorizing about why parts of Wisconsin, Illinois, and Missouri were "soda," while the rest seemed solidly "pop."
I'll always stick out like a sore thumb here--I can't imagine calling soda "pop," and I still call a turn signal a "directional."
I'd like to see a map of what people call grinders. I mean, heroes. You know, those submarine sandwiches?