Rather than talk about the War in Iraq or the collapse of the Tar Heels, I thought I’d just give everyone something fun to look at for a Monday and the first day of spring.
This map (click on above) comes courtesy of Wes Young, a reporter in our K’ville bureau, and cartographers at East Central University in Oklahoma. Wes is also our census guru, and he’s got a good radar for obscure but interesting factoids.
This is a county by county map that shows what people call sweet carbonated water: soda, coke, pop, other. It’s nice to know that in this day of homogenization and regional blurring, many things are still unique. You can see the Coke belt, the soda belt and the pop belt. What I found most interesting is the St. Louis area, a sea of soda surrounded by pops on the North and Cokes on the south.
I don’t know much about St. Louis, but if anybody has an answer, I’d love to hear it.
Also, check out the pop (blue) dots in Surry and Davie counties.
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