Alabama

Alaska

Alberta

Arizona

Arkansas

British Columbia

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

District of Columbia

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Manitoba

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Brunswick

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

Newfoundland and Labrador

North Carolina

North Dakota

Northwest Territories

Nova Scotia

Nunavut

Ohio

Oklahoma

Ontario

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Prince Edward Island

Québec

Rhode Island

Saskatchewan

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Yukon

None

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 

Dominican Republic

Haiti

Caribbean

Tajikistan

Afghanistan

Central Asia

Nepal

East Asia

Eurasia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croatia

Northern Macedonia

Kosovo

Europe

Colombia

Guatemala

Honduras

El Salvador

Latin America

India

Pakistan

South Asia

Indonesia

Timor-Leste

Cambodia

Southeast Asia

Lebanon

Morocco

Egypt

Iraq

Palestine

Iran

Syria

Yemen

Southwest Asia and North Africa

Angola

Côte d'Ivoire

Republic of the Congo

Namibia

Senegal

Sierra Leone

Burundi

Ethiopia

Guinea-Bissau

Mozambique

Rwanda

Chad

Uganda

Central African Republic

Democratic Republic of Congo

Mali

Sudan

South Sudan

Sub-Saharan Africa

A map displaying United Nations peacekeeping missions marked by blue dots. The highest concentration is in Africa (Sudan) and the Middle East (Lebanon and Syria). South America (Brazil and Haiti), and Asia (India, East Timor) shows fewer missions.

Soft Drink Dialects	Display by:	United Nations Peacekeeping Missions since 1995
Value	U.S. Presidential Election: Popular Vote by County, 2012	United Nations Peacekeeping Missions since 1995

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		1.5
		1
		1
		1.75
		1.25
		2
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		2