Monday Trivia #140 [Johanna wins!]
Utah, Alaska, Wyoming, New Hampshire, Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska, (Hawaii, Idaho, North Dakota), Montana, Maine, (Delaware, Indiana, Minnesota), Washington, South Dakota, Maryland, Vermont, Kansas, Nevada, Oregon, (Michigan, West virginia), Ohio, Oklahoma, (Arizona, Missouri), Colorado, Arkansas, virginia, (Pennsylvania, South Carolina), (New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina), Illinois, Kentucky, Rhode Island, (Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee), Texas, California, Alabama, Florida, (Louisiana, Massachusetts), Connecticut, New York, DC
Data is from 2009.
Parenthesis denote ties.
This list is from low to high.
percent of population that is catholic?Report
Whiteness?Report
Kentucky would be closer to the beginning than the end, then.Report
Yeah, after looking a little closer, it’s not that. Alaska’s large native population makes it far from the second-whitest state. And the question uses 2009 data. 2010 census data being readily available by now, it seems unlikely to be a standard demographic thing.Report
Hawaii.Report
variance in income? Seems to make sense except for Alabama seems really weird to me.Report
How do you do that?Report
She’s smarter than everyone else.Report
Can anyone explain Alabama – Is there really enough big money there, or are the poor that oppressively poor?Report
It is variance in income? How do you get ties, then? Gini index rounded to the nearest .01?Report
Alabama has a coastline that is becoming increasingly wealthy and attractive, it has a huge urban-rural divide in wealth (basically there’s Birmingham, Montgomery, and Huntsville, and then a buncha nowhere and nothin’), and Huntsville is home to a lot of well-educated tech and engineering folk who make a fair amount of money. High unemployment (even before ’08), a large black population with high unemployment and institutional barriers to economic mobility, and a fairly poor education system also keep much of the population on the low end of the income spectrum, while more and more money moves into the cities and the coast.Report
What Chris said. Rural Alabama (and similarly, rural Mississippi and rural Louisiana) are amazingly poor. Those states have a long history, which is now changing, of restricting industrial development in favor of agriculture and not investing well in education.Report
Per capita or household income?Report
The existence of ties suggests a discrete value, rather than continuous. So it’s probably not a percentage or anything like that. And also likely fairly small numbers.Report
Damn, didn’t even get to this before Johanna won. I wouldn’t have got there nearly as quickly as she, although I think I might have gotten there with a hint. Good for her!
Our all-time Monday Trivia winner leaderboard reads:
Randy Harris: 22½
Mark Thompson: 18⅓
Mike Schilling: 15½
Johanna: 10
Mo: 6½Report