> it doesn't look like Washingtonians are big travelers compared to the rest of the West<p>Add edges into Canada to the graph. Half the tourists here in Vancouver on a normal year (i.e. not this one) are from Seattle.
This is some awesome data - I bet we'll be seeing a bunch of social science PhDs based on data sets like these in the next 1-5 years. It will be really interesting to see how this social graph evolves with time, and what it can predict about things like migration, the economy, and the nature of our relationships.
Wow, this is really fascinating, and I can confirm that Missouri, or at least my south-west part of it, indeed belongs to "Greater Texas". I think that's also true for Louisiana as well, which is where my mom is from.
C. Etzel Pearcy, some professor from some place, drafted up this concept in the 70s to resituate the States into better social groups and to allow more even representation.<p>Map: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/Uway1.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/Uway1.jpg</a><p>Descriptions: <a href="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2006/09/10/5-the-38-state-union/" rel="nofollow">http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2006/09/10/5-the-38-state-u...</a>
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