Largest Companies by Revenue in Each State

Broadview Networks realized that most of the large corporations are coagulated in a few states so they wanted to know what the largest corporation in each state is. The above map, using information from Hoover’s, a D&B Company is the result. The biggest surprise is that the largest corporation in Washington is not Microsoft at $77.849 billion, but Costco at $105.156 billion.

Blue equals smart, Red equals dumb

From MSNBC

Deadliest tornadoes in new "Tornado Alley"

What was once thought of as the area called "Tornado Alley" has just gotten much bigger. A study of the worst tornadoes in the last century shows that the vast majority of them have happened outside of the previously considered boundaries. Take a look at this map from Huffington Post to get more details.

Cold War no gos

During the cold war, travel between the USA & the USSR was very restricted. Only a few highly placed Soviets were even allowed to leave their country, let alone visit the USA. And, once they got here, the restrictions continued, as shown on this map from the Rockefeller Archive Center (via Slate).

I don't understand the reasoning behind some of the off-limits areas, but who ever said these things had to be logical? Maybe they just didn't want visitors to have too much fun in New Orleans and not want to come back.

Let's talk

The Miriam-Webster dictionary defines a dialect as "a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other regional varieties and constituting together with them a single language", which is pretty much how the man who made this map, Robert Delaney defines it. In other words, in different parts of the country, we speak differently. Also, it makes for a pretty map of the U.S.

On his website, Delaney goes into much more detail on how these dialects came to be and how they differ from each other.

Orange assholes

The Affordable Care Act provides for the U.S. States to get substantial federal funding to expand Medicaid to all residents with incomes at or below 133 percent of poverty. The Obama administration has given them the incentive to expand their programs by paying 100% of the cost of the expansion through 2016, then 95% in 2017, 94% in 2018, and 93% in 2019. Beginning in 2020, the federal government will fund 90% of the expansion. The Kaiser Family Foundation has numerated the many benefits of participating in the expansion.

And yet, as the above map from Avalere State Reform Insights shows, only 20 states & DC plan to expand medicaid eligibility, while 15 have announced that they will not expand, and the rest are undecided. What is the reason for so many opting out or being on the fence? The answer is obvious - they are assholes who don't really care about people having good health care.  And I don't mean just the elected officials who have made these decisions. I also include those who put them into office.

Eggplant country

The USA is often divided into blue and red states, but as we see from this map found on Timeline Photos, we are a very purple nation.  And look at all that blue in the south.  That's a real surprise.