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Nye Bevan

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1. Doing this by state is obviously too coarse.

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Thu May 8, 2014, 05:20 PM

May 2014

Obviously NY is blue because of all the people who walk to work in NYC. But making the entire state blue is kind of misleading. And Illinois and Wisconsin are probably only in the 3 to 3.9 category because of people walking to work in Chicago and Milwaukee.

And am I alone in finding Alaska a little baffling here?

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A map showing percent who walk to work in USA [View all] n2doc May 2014 OP

Doing this by state is obviously too coarse. Nye Bevan May 2014 #1

Me too. I saw Alaska and assumed blue was the lowest number. arcane1 May 2014 #3

Maybe they count walking dogs B2G May 2014 #5

maybe they all work from home? magical thyme May 2014 #6

I don't know about that.... harrose May 2014 #7

Anchorage contains about 40% of alaskas population Travis_0004 May 2014 #10

Alas, I used to be one of those. arcane1 May 2014 #2

I walk to my kitchen table, which is my office. Does that count? Brickbat May 2014 #4

Think of the temperature.. elias49 May 2014 #8

there are some who would love to be able to walk to work but can't JI7 May 2014 #9