The Real Red Nation
Jenson Hagen
For some reason this pictures seems all too fitting. Red signifies job losses. Not so much blue in Oregon.
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Ladies and gentlemen... Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici!. Posted on February 7, 2012.
3:14 a.m.
Apr 16, '09
Hey - how about sharing a link to your source, so that we can play with the green play button or the mouseover data.
Apr 16, '09
Um, don't we have 12.1% unemployment which is in the top three in the nation?
Apr 16, '09
Wow, clearly the places that are the most populated have lost the most jobs. Interesting how places that have historically placed barriers to business investment (higher relative taxes), have been hit the hardest.
8:28 a.m.
Apr 16, '09
Daniel - yes. But we are a relatively lowly populated region and the map is keyed on population.
A village of 100 people with a 50% unemployment rate would be an astounding rate. But compared to a city of 2 million with a 10% unemployment rate the village would pale in comparison. Thus the map we see above.
9:30 a.m.
Apr 16, '09
Here's the original map. It can take a minute to load properly. http://www.slate.com/id/2216238/
If people want more statistics on local unemployment, then here is the Bureau of Labor Statistics link. http://www.bls.gov/lau/home.htm
Apr 16, '09
Here is what I see on the map:
Apr 16, '09
Subtract the manufacturing areas (which have been unemployment trouble-spots for decades) and what you're looking at is a map of the burst of the housing bubble, especially in Florida and California.
Much of the (sporadic) job growth seems to be in the South and in the Mississippi watershed.
Apr 16, '09
I'd assume much of Nevada looks pretty "red", too, but it's covered by the Los Angeles caption bubble.
Apr 17, '09
"Subtract the manufacturing areas (which have been unemployment trouble-spots for decades"
And Oregon now.
Apr 17, '09
According to this map, at least, Oregon doesn't appear to be terribly hard-hit, though the I5 corridor shows up faintly.
Of course the problem with this map is that it appears to be counting raw numbers of jobs lost. Anyone with a rudimentary understanding of cartography will tell you than this isn't really an optimal way of symbolizing this kind of data, at least out of context. This means, as noted above, Oregon's rather high unemployment rate doesn't show up very strongly.
A more standard choropleth map to go along with this one would be much more informative in conveying which parts of the country are the most hard-hit.