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Real dangers milk or SUVs

It just amazes me that these things are still legal while we are forbidden from eating cheese made from unpasturized milk due to health and safety concerns.

posted by Netphemera @ 9:16 AM 1 comments

Red States more charatable, or just plain broke

United States	$46,160
Mississippi	$33,754
Montana	$33,775
West Virginia	$34,941
Arkansas	$35,467
North Dakota	$35,654
New Mexico	$35,894
South Dakota	$35,907
Oklahoma	$37,098
Louisiana	$37,102
Idaho	$37,636
South Carolina	$38,123
Kentucky	$38,210
Alabama	$38,472
Maine	$39,018
Iowa	$39,630
Nebraska	$39,708
Tennessee	$39,773
Vermont	$40,506
Ohio	$41,032
Utah	$41,042
Hawaii	$41,329
Missouri	$41,368
Indiana	$41,562
North Carolina	$41,896
Oregon	$42,118
Kansas	$42,187
Alaska	$42,650
Texas	$43,546
Arizona	$43,726
Wyoming	$43,817
Florida	$43,875
Wisconsin	$43,973
Pennsylvania	$43,991
Georgia	$44,802
Michigan	$45,127
Rhode Island	$45,925
Nevada	$48,025
Delaware	$48,291
Minnesota	$48,736
Washington	$49,021
Illinois	$49,662
New Hampshire	$49,720
Colorado	$49,778
Virginia	$50,943
California	$51,281
New York	$52,774
Maryland	$54,043
Massachusetts	$56,764
New Jersey	$59,159
Connecticut	$64,724

According to this blogger, Red states are more generous than blue states. But if you go back to the original source data, then resort the data by average income, you come up with the chart indicated below. Not much different, except that instead of charting some ambigous "Generosity Index", what you're reporting is simply that states with lower annual AGI are more likely to vote for Bush.

No surpise there. Lower income, less money towards education, more likely to vote red.

posted by Netphemera @ 9:05 AM 0 comments