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1) More than 60% of residents in the northeast, California and Alaska have passports. Northeast and California because of higher incomes and higher education le
by Samuel_Michon 14y ago
1) More than 60% of residents in the northeast, California and Alaska have passports. Northeast and California because of higher incomes and higher education levels, Alaska because it's isolated from the lower 48.
2) In the southern states, many people don't have passports (except for FL). There's a lot of poverty, few college graduates, and they don't have much in the way of LBGT rights in the workplace. Nothing new there.
3) People living in the Indian reservations [1] are amongst the poorest, but they do tend to have passports.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bia-map-indian-reservations-usa.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bia-map-indian-reservation...
- brianbreslin 14y agoflorida probably has high passport rate due to accessibility of nearby countries, and huge immigrant population.
- Turing_Machine 14y ago"Northeast and California because of higher incomes and higher education levels, Alaska because it's isolated from the lower 48." Alaska has high incomes and high education levels also. In fact it has the second highest median household income of any state (only Maryland is higher). It also has education levels higher than either New York or California. 91.4% of Alaskans have a high school education or more, compared to 80.6% of Californians and 84.7% of New Yorkers. Edit: added references. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_income http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_income http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0233.pdf http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0233.p...
- Samuel_Michon 14y agoAlaska wasn't shown on most of the maps that were linked to the article, that's why I didn't mention income or education level. "It also has education levels higher than either New York or California." According to your stats, that's certainly not the case for higher education – Alaska scores below the national average. Bachelor's degree or more: DC 48.5%, New York 32.4%, California 29.9%, US average 27.9%, Alaska 26.6% Advanced degree or more: DC 28%, New York 14%, California 10.7%, US average 10.3%, Alaska 9%
- Turing_Machine 14y ago"According to your stats, that's certainly not the case for higher education" I didn't say "higher" education. I said "education levels". 20% of Californians don't even have a high school education, which is pretty bad. If you want to argue that allegedly liberal states like New York and California tend to be bimodal, with an elite overclass and an impoverished underclass, I won't disagree.
- Samuel_Michon 14y ago"New York and California tend to be bimodal, with an elite overclass and an impoverished underclass" So true.