Wyoming, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Arkansas, Oklahoma, South Carolina, West Virginia, Louisiana, Kentucky, Alabama, New Mexico, South Dakota, Tennessee, Missouri, Idaho, North Carolina, Florida, Kansas, Georgia, Delaware, Texas, Iowa, Nebraska, Arizona, Maine, Vermont, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Oregon, Virginia, Maryland, Colorado, Nevada, Alaska, Ohio, Utah, Michigan, Hawaii, California, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Washington, Illinois, New Jersey, Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, DC
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Fraction of work force with an advanced degree, from low to high?
Paved roads as a percentage of total land space?
Mississippi ahead of several of the big western states would concern me for that one, as would Rhode Island ahead of Washington. Perhaps miles of federal interstate highway per capita?
Hm. I’d expect California to be near the bottom, with its huge, huge population, and Alaska to be at the very top, given a long stretch of road between Anchorage and Fairbanks.
‘Course if this were a correct guess, Will would no doubt have said so by now.
What is up with Alaska? All of my initial thoughts seem plausible, and then I spot Alaska.
Whatever the answer is, it correlates pretty darn well with Romney’s % of the vote in 2008.
Home ownership rate? BlaiseP thinks that correlates well with the Republican vote.
Doesn’t look like it: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0993.pdf
By which I mean 2012, of course. D’oh.
Percentage of work force employed by the federal government, from least to most?
Good guess, but Gallup says Ohio would be least, and Virginia is too low.
What? Ohio is a swing state. Both parties should be very anxious to throw jobs at them.
Could easily be wrong, since it’s self-reports and old data, this this has Ohio as the lowest % of government employees.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/141785/gov-employment-ranges-ohio.aspx
Annual handgun sales per capita, most to least?
Belated Tuesday Hint: You’d rather be at the bottom of this list than the top of this list. Nobody wants to be at the top of this list.
Average wait time for an ambulance.
If so, I’m impressed that Alaska can do so much better than tiny little Delaware.
I’ll guess suicides?
Average annual income?
Belated Wednesday Hint: A couple guesses supplied thus far have touched on the answer.
Average handgun sales while waiting for an ambulance.
Average number of handguns carried in an ambulance?
traffic fatalities per capita?
We have a winner!
Interestingly enough, both related guesses (roads and ambulances) were from Burt.
Then I’ll claim an assist.
I feel like I should have a 30-minute acceptance speech prepped.
This of course proves a point I’ve long made – drivers from the Northeastern megalopolis may be nasty, crazy SOBs, but we’ve got the skills to more than back that up.
Nope, it’s not skill.
Y’all are stuck in traffic jams and so can’t get up the necessary speed and momentum to get in fatal crashes.
The rest of the nation has the requisite open highway to get everywhere faster (including the afterlife).
Pshaw! Most of the Northeast is a 75 MPH parking lot.