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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honestly it fits my theory that one of the Dakotas doesn't really exist.

It's probably where all the birds are controlled from.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

One of them certainly shouldn't exist. The fact that that area is split into two states is only to have two more Republican Senators.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

State borders are strange. Like why the part of Florida in the central time zone isn't just Alabama doesn't make sense to me.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Could you imagine living in Hawaii and not having readily available corn fields? How would I do all my corn field based activities?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was literally just thinking that we need more corn fields here

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ohio is nice this time of year and all the kids are taking about it.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Get your shit together, Alaska!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Embarrassing

“No data“ it at that point

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

TIL most US corn is Republican

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (7 children)

The second highest on this map, illinois, is a Dem state

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

To be fair, the corn isn’t growing in the blue part of Illinois

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Yes it is. As a resident, I can attest that the corn is growing about damn near everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Never been to Chicagoland? Every empty field is filled in with corn. Smash a gas station flat? Now it's a cornfield.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Multiple counties in Illinois voted in favor of exploring secession from the state because they don't like how Chicago turns the state blue. It would definitely be a red state without us.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Every state would be a red state without the major cities.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Except Massachusetts apparently.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was just looking at some of the recent voting data by state and one of the southwestern or Western states was only 6k votes from electing Harris. I think there were only about 100k votes total. Maybe it was Oklahoma?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I find that interesting yet hard to believe.

I tried to search for the info but Google is failing me and I'm too lazy to click a bunch of States on an interactive map.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Only because of Chicago & C(r)ook County. Virtually the rest of Illinois is red.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hard to believe there is no data on corn fields in the home state of the Corn Palace.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Palace

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)

This makes me wonder what the map creator considers a green amount of corn to be lol. 100%?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

To be fair, corn is yellow

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And how do we have NO DATA about the crops growing in any state?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Corn has consumed anyone who could answer.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

0.4 and 0.7% are different colors, but 10 and 37% are the same

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

We are the children...of ethanol.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Why are you telling me which states have no data?

I thought this was about corn?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't agree with the color choice. Green would've been much nicer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It all should have been shades of yellow.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Indiana Beach commercials did not lie to me after all!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Monocultures are environmentally devastating btw.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There is a massive swing in each of those colors.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, 10%, 20%, and 37% should each be ~~buffet~~ different colors.

Damn autocorrect

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Really? Only 0.4%?

Because it sure feels like there's way more corn here than that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you’re referring to CA, it’s % of the entire state. Think of how much of CA is arid, mountainous, or otherwise unsuitable for corn or other agriculture.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're probably seeing mostly grapes, tomatoes, cotton and cannabis, as well as grains that aren't corn?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can't imagine 1/3 of everything you see in an entire state being corn.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Try driving through it. It's horrible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Can confirm. I live in the Midwest.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

if the numbers seem low dont forget about soy. and maybe wheat or alfalfa

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Having lived in Chicagoland, what are the corn growing incentives there?! Every empty field in the city is full of corn. Seems smart.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'll be honest, I thought Ohio would be higher...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The other 87% of Ohio is soy beans

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Having flown over Iowa in a small plane many times this checks out

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Living in Iowa, this checks out. All I know is corn.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Drove through North Dakota once. It was all corn for hours. Absolutely stupid amounts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As a foreigner, based on my road trip from Houston to Port Fourchon in Louisiana, I would have thunk those two percentages would've been substantially higher. Especially Louisiana.

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