Wild & Wacky Stats!

[Adam Griffin]

Please contribute:

Median Income by County 2006:


Percentage of people 65 and over with no natural teeth:


Percentage of residents who have used cocaine (2003-2004):


Percentage of residents who have used marijuana (2007):


Ratio of twin births per 1,000 live births:

[Adam Griffin]

I found it very odd that on the twin map, there is such a concentration of states in the Northeast with abnormally high ratios of twins. The map I made doesn't do full justice; almost every state in the Northeast was in the top ten, while the West was fairly devoid of twins.

[Adam Griffin]

Amount Exported to Iran (per 100 people):


Children ages 0-5 who are read to everyday:


Children 0-18 who attend weekly religious services:

[Adam Griffin]

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It's the dollar amount exported annually by a state for every 100 residents. Divide it by 100 and that's the monetary amount of goods exported annually for each resident of the state.

[Adam Griffin]

Ability to save financially:


Firearm deaths per 100,000 people:


Wal-mart vs. Starbucks - Which has more stores:

[Adam Griffin]

These maps have the states placed in groups of 10; darkest shade represents 10 states that ranked highest in the specific category, lightest represents 10 lowest in category):

Healthiness of states:


Lynchings by state (1882-1968):

[Adam Griffin]

What's the key and source(s) to the lynching map?

UMKC School of Law.

[Adam Griffin]

Taxation by State:


Bankruptcy by State:


Forced Rape Per Capita by State (per 1,000 people):


Oil Consumption Per Capita by State:


Chlamydia Rates by State (per 100,000):

[Adam Griffin]

Percentage of Married Couples with Both Spouses in the Workforce:

[Adam Griffin]

Percentage of People Who Abuse Alcohol by State:


Percentage of People Who Casually Drink Alcohol by State:


Looks like people in the Midwest with high work ethic reward themselves with 30 beers after a long day at the job.

[Adam Griffin]

Pop vs. Soda vs. Coke w/ Shaded Percentage:

[Adam Griffin]

Yeah what jimrtex described is a "float" here.

Do people in the south seriously refer to Sprite, Sierra Mist and 7 Up as "Coke"?

Not exactly. Where I live, most people ask for the specific beverage if they know what they want. For example, if we want a Sprite, we're not gonna say "Gimme a pop", "Gimme a soda", or "Gimme a coke", we'll say "Gimme a sprite". If you're at a restaurant and ask for a coke, you'll get Coca-Cola. If you're in my house and ask for a coke, you'll get the same. However, I've heard people ask them to "get me a coke" if they are at someone else's house, to which the other person asks, "What kind? We got ..." but if you're out in public, you'd ask "What kind of drinks do you have?", with no reference to pop, soda, or coke. But that's just Georgia. Coca-Cola is the dominant beverage in the South and when people ask for it, it's normally what they want -- not a generalized term for beverage.

[Adam Griffin]

So if you were to make a vast, vast generalization based off of this poll/study mentioned earlier and apply it to the entire U.S. population, you would have the following:

116,087,126 people (38.18%) would say 'Pop'
117,982,820 people (38.80%) would say 'Soda'
51,066,418 people (16.80%) would say 'Coke'
18,882,175 people (6.22%) would say something else

[Adam Griffin]

Sexual Orientation Motivated Hate Crimes Per Capita:

I was actually shocked to see that the states that have the most legislation in place for the LGBT community have the highest rate of violence against them. I also would have loved to seen data for the five states omitted.

Race Related Hate Crimes Per Capita:

Again, rather intrigued by this one. The darker shades indicates more incidents per capita.

[Adam Griffin]

Cancer diagnoses per 100,000:


Cancer deaths per 100,000:

[Adam Griffin]

Yeah what jimrtex described is a "float" here.

Do people in the south seriously refer to Sprite, Sierra Mist and 7 Up as "Coke"?

Not exactly. Where I live, most people ask for the specific beverage if they know what they want. For example, if we want a Sprite, we're not gonna say "Gimme a pop", "Gimme a soda", or "Gimme a coke", we'll say "Gimme a sprite". If you're at a restaurant and ask for a coke, you'll get Coca-Cola. If you're in my house and ask for a coke, you'll get the same. However, I've heard people ask them to "get me a coke" if they are at someone else's house, to which the other person asks, "What kind? We got ..." but if you're out in public, you'd ask "What kind of drinks do you have?", with no reference to pop, soda, or coke. But that's just Georgia. Coca-Cola is the dominant beverage in the South and when people ask for it, it's normally what they want -- not a generalized term for beverage.

Fine, you guys don't use Coke for everything soda related. 


But then why do you guys answer the question with "Coke" then?

Poll : Do you call it soda or pop?
Everybody in the South : We call it Coke!
The rest of the country : wait, what?  You call Sprite or Dr.Pepper "Coke"?
South : no that would be stupid.
The rest of us : ba wha?

Yeah I know, it's dumb. I guess it's just a preferred term compared to 'pop' or 'soda', or it may have to do with the fact that Coca-Cola is based in Atlanta and the term just infiltrated the region because of that.