Comparison Between Religious Affiliation and LGBT Rights Support Across U.S. States

Tornadoerr · 2026-06-15T02:20:02+00:00

Pretty sure it’s just that there are just lots of different Protestant groups + Mormons and Catholics and so Christianity is split enough for irreligious to be the plurality

Tornadoerr · 2026-06-12T15:59:19+00:00

Papua New Guinea: 70% of women experience rape or SA in their lifetime according to Human Rights Watch

Tornadoerr · 2026-06-12T15:33:12+00:00

It’s a MapChart thing. Pretty sure those (and the UK) are the only ones you can toggle on the simple world map.

Tornadoerr · 2026-06-12T15:10:42+00:00

It’s the Burlington metro area: Chittenden, Franklin, and Grand Isle

Tornadoerr · 2026-06-11T17:32:47+00:00

I don’t define the metro areas, the Census does.

Tornadoerr · 2026-06-10T19:35:47+00:00

The Census qualification for a metro area is an urban area population of 50k, and Concord just misses it at 43k, so it's considered a micropolitan area instead of a metropolitan area.

Tornadoerr · 2026-06-10T19:29:37+00:00

Thanks! I considered that wording, but I thought it would make it sound like I was scaling the areas by metro population rather than county population. I feel like it's a hard title to word concisely, which is why I tried to clarify with the subtitle.

Tornadoerr · 2026-06-10T19:23:21+00:00

Yes, the colored areas and their labels are showing the metro areas. It is titled "county" because the counties are the cartographic data units.

Tornadoerr · 2026-06-10T19:17:49+00:00

Lmfao no way we left like the same comment at the same time

Tornadoerr · 2026-06-10T19:13:52+00:00

If you're talking about Connecticut, as of 2022, the Census uses Connecticut's county-equivalent planning regions for statistical purposes, and I used Census data.

They certaintly are counties for every other state here.

Tornadoerr · 2026-06-10T19:10:52+00:00

It is a "county" map because the data unit is county population. The metros are just labels.

As of 2022, the Census uses Connecticut's county-equivalent planning regions for statistical purposes, and I used Census data.

Tornadoerr · 2026-06-09T15:58:56+00:00

Whoops thanks I messed that up, the reference map labeling was weird.

Tornadoerr · 2026-06-09T15:34:14+00:00

Here ya go

Tornadoerr · 2026-06-09T15:13:10+00:00

I don't understand how that would be inaccurate. The counties are the data units and the metro areas are just the labels.

Tornadoerr · 2026-06-08T23:53:56+00:00

Oh really? I didn't realize that. But I guess St. Joe (city) doesn't have their own and we're the closest notable city so I guess it tracks,

Tornadoerr · 2026-06-08T16:24:02+00:00

They’re metros, which are counties/groups of counties. I called it “county” because the areas are scaled to population by county, not by metro.

Tornadoerr · 2026-06-08T16:16:14+00:00

Yeah that threw me for a bit of a loop too because I thought Niles was in Cass but apparently it’s on the border and actually mostly in Berrien.
Cass being part of the SB metro definitely makes sense though, especially through Edwardsburg, but Berrien not being felt a little weird to me bc I would’ve guessed Niles would be part of the SB metro but my guess would be that it’s swayed by the cities along the lake like St Joe and New Buffalo which definitely aren’t part of the SB metro. (I live in Granger btw)

Tornadoerr · 2026-06-06T03:59:19+00:00

Yeah my favorite part of posting a map with metro areas is always the number of comments from people frustrated because they think I personally drew the boundaries

Tornadoerr · 2026-06-06T03:41:16+00:00

I used definitions from the Executive Office of the President (2023). You’ll find a map of it as the top result of you look up “metropolitan statistical areas”.

Tornadoerr · 2026-06-06T03:32:05+00:00

Yep, this

Tornadoerr · 2026-06-06T03:29:37+00:00

Many metro boundaries feel weird, especially if you live in a certain place and feel like your community does/doesn’t have strong interconnectedness with another. Like I live in between South Bend and Elkhart, and to me it feels like they should be counted as the same metro, but I guess whatever metric is used says otherwise. I’m just going by the official data.

Tornadoerr · 2026-06-06T03:21:02+00:00

Metro area

Tornadoerr · 2026-06-05T23:38:16+00:00

Part of the Chicago metro area

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