Really interesting that NH had so few. After the war ended a great many veterans of the war came to NH to settle. This resulted in a kind of cultural pulse that I could still feel when growing up there, especially around the middle of the state. Very strong negative sentiment toward Confederate states and citizens endured for long afterward.

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Ontario had Kathleen Wynne who was corrupt and innept and then Doug Ford who won without a platform besides promising "buck a beer". Dougyboy has been fumbling his way through every decision since he got in, and yet they voted him in twice. Ontario is suffering from the same issue that federal politics have, where the two major parties are basically interchangeable and not at all fiscally conservative. Say what you will, but when it comes to growing the economy, Quebec has the only party in Canada in power now that is actually fiscally conservative. They even ran a surplus of half a billion dollars last year.

These data would be more beautiful (especially for folks with color vision deficits, like me) if the categories in the legend were in the same order as the bar segments in the chart.

At first I noticed the obvious - Soldiers in the northern army were generally from the north; obvious.

Second glance - Look how important Lincoln's decision to allow northern border states to continue slavery in exchange for remaining in the Union was.

Mississippi isn't last!!

Maybe all the blood scarifice will help the soil produce better crops next season

For a country where professional football(soccer) is ranked 4th (behind American Football, Baseball, & Basketball) the US is doing surprisingly well.

Thid graph is giving brasil too much credit, were a shadow of our 2000s roster

35% chance a nation will win their first world cup

There was an Army of Tennessee (confederate), and an Army of the Tennessee (union)! (I had ggg grandfathers in both)

What are upsets? Maybe this is made for people that are into betting, which I am not.

So did I win most on the right side? Or what does the location on x axis mean?
And why are the points distributed within a year on the y-axis? is this arbitrary?

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The way it’s presented (x team reaches a certain level in xx% of simulations) you have a solid point. They necessarily have to add up to 100%. Even in factoring in rounding, it shouldn’t be off by 7%.

My guess is that it’s not in fact % of simulations, but instead % chance of reaching that level. Small difference in interpretation, doesn’t matter on the first round, but changes in the deeper rounds due to conditional probabilities. For example given Australia beats Argentina, their odds of reaching the semis is increased much more than say the USA beating the Netherlands.

Well theres no Germany so Brazil seems like a shoein...😏

England 12% France 11% nahhhh

Cool graphic. You got a typo in the title (winnig).

I find it fascinating that Indian territory sent 4 units, 50 years before Oklahoma became a state and 25 before it was opened up to white settlement

And also by country

Given the existence of the "20th Maine", renowned for their part in defending Little Round Top at Gettysburg, at least 20.

It’s about policy and government IMHO. Minnesota and Wisconsin were virtually the same but Minnesota went blue and Wisconsin went Red. Minnesota has much higher wages, union and workers rights, better education and healthcare, better economy, etc.. All of that comes down to Blue State vs Red State. It’s across the board.

There’s no other real difference between the states other than how they are governed.

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I don’t argue with propaganda online. Wallethub is not a credible source and one year is not a trend.

Here’s a credible right leaning source, notice all the blue states in the top ranking and red states on the bottom.

https://www3.forbes.com/business/states-with-the-best-public-school-systems-ifs-vue-wnb/?slide=44

Here’s another source:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/public-school-rankings-by-state

Minnesota top 7, most years top 3.

You can look at results for decades, Minnesota’s education system has been better for decades. Blue states education has been better. And the workers that come out of schools in blue states have been more productive and better educated workers as well.

For decades. Decades, not just one year.

And world population review is a credible source:
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/world-population-review/

That’s interesting. We tend to think of Columbine as a watershed moment, however the graph shows otherwise. Guns on school grounds have been an issue for a long time.

On the other hand it also shows that your chances of actually being shot as a student is still minuscule.

except in Germany for example we don't group football teams the same way we do with the school year. for football it is an entire year from Jan to Dec, for school it is from July 1st to June 30th

The first point could potentially be explained by them having a higher % chance if they face USA or Australia in the second round. But yea the numbers don’t add up for the region so something seems a little off about the simulation.

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