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California

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Iowa

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Louisiana

Maine

Manitoba

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Massachusetts

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Nebraska

Nevada

New Brunswick

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

Newfoundland and Labrador

North Carolina

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Nova Scotia

Nunavut

Ohio

Oklahoma

Ontario

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Prince Edward Island

Québec

Rhode Island

Saskatchewan

South Carolina

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Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

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Wisconsin

Wyoming

Yukon

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A map showing soft drink dialects in North America. "Soda" is used (light green) mainly in California and Nevada. "Pop" (light yellow) in Canada. "Coke" (light purple) in the Southern U S. "Other" (orange) is used mainly in Quebec and northern Canada.

The distribution of generic names given to soft drinks in North America

US / CA States

North America

PopVsSoda.com; Alan McConchie

Soft Drink Dialects

The 2012 presidential election in the United States pitted incumbent President and Democrat Barack Obama against Republican Mitt Romney. This layer portrays the popular vote results at the county and county-equivalent level. The map portrays the winner of the popular vote while data probing, placing the mouse over a county, displays the percentage of the vote for each candidate and the total number of votes cast. In the 2012 election, Mr. Obama won most of the counties containing major urban centers. He also won much of California, coastal Washington and Oregon, northern New Mexico, Central Colorado, much of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and northern Illinois. He also won southern Texas, the counties along the southern Mississippi River, a zone extending from central Mississippi through central Alabama, South Carolina and eastern North Carolina. He also won most of the counties on the eastern seaboard from Washington and Baltimore northeast through New England. Mr. Romney won most of the interior of the country outside of those areas previously mentioned as being won by Mr. Obama. Mr. Romney won the Alaskan municipalities while Mr. Obama won the counties of Hawaii.

Percentage of the popular vote by county that went to Mitt Romney versus Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election

US Counties

Data.gov

U.S. Presidential Election: Popular Vote by County, 2012 

Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

Japan

China

East Asia

Russia

Eurasia

France

Europe

Argentina

Colombia

Peru

Brazil

Latin America

Mexico

Pakistan

Bangladesh

India

South Asia

Indonesia

Thailand

Philippines

Southeast Asia

Egypt

Southwest Asia and North Africa

Democratic Republic of Congo

Nigeria

Sub-Saharan Africa

A world map shows megacities, highlighted by brown circles of different sizes. Some of the highlighted circles are: Largest circles are in Tokyo, Delhi, Shanghai. Medium circles are in Cairo, Mexico, Sao Paulo. Smallest circles: Paris, Jakarta, Moscow.

The world's megacities, urban areas where single cities or clusters of cities have at least 10 million people

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