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kleinbl00  ·  1482 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Maybe We Should Have Let the South Secede

    I live in a major city in Georgia (not Atlanta). The nearest Wal-Mart is a 12 mile drive, and I have one Food Lion between me and it.

I have experienced the exact same thing in Los Angeles and Phoenix. None of which shows up on this magical map. The NYT has data for "more travel" and "less travel" but when you dig into the numbers, "less travel" for Seattle" is from "miles" to "feet" whereas in Daytona Beach "less travel" is a 50% reduction.

The South loves to pretend that The South is special but The South is just more pugnacious than everyone else because they lost.