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From: "Joel Kovarsky" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 12:29:19 PM
Subject: Re: 12 States of America

On 3/18/2011 1:15 PM, Angie Cope wrote:

>This would be a good demo of reporting sources ,
>the map is very interesting, but as far
>as I can tell no specific sources are mentioned.
>Steven


The "data" are extracted from Chinni and Gimpel's book, Our Patchwork Nation . And you are not the only one to be skeptical of their data sources and interpretation: http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2010/1027/Our-Patchwork-Nation .

Joel Kovarsky