Alabama

Alaska

Alberta

Arizona

Arkansas

British Columbia

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

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

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

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A map shows the farm area in acres in the U.S. States like Texas and Montana have the largest farm areas (more than 50,000,000 acres, dark blue). States like Alaska and New Jersey have the smallest farm areas (less than 2,000,000 acres, lighter blue).

The number of acres in farms in North America, by state

US / CA States

North America

USDA

Farm Area (Acreage)

Acres

The 2008 presidential election in the United States pitted Republican John McCain against Democrat Barack Obama. 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 2008 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. McCain won most of the interior of the country outside of those areas previously mentioned. Mr. McCain won the Alaskan municipalities while Mr. Obama won the counties of Hawaii.

Percentage of the popular vote by county that went to John McCain versus Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election

US Counties

Data.gov

U.S. Presidential Election: Popular Vote by County, 2008

District of Columbia

Nunavut

Thunderstorms per year in North America: The highest occurrence region (light brown), includes Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Western U.S.(California, Nevada), and northern Canada (Yukon, Northwest Territories), have the lowest occurrences (black).

	Farm Area (Acreage)				Thunderstorm Occurrence
	Class	Rank	Acres	U.S. Presidential Election: Popular Vote by County, 2008	100 and above	81–100	71–80	61–70	51–60	41–50	31–40	21–30	11–20	6–10	2–5	1 and below
					9.02%	23.9%	9.48%	11.8%	42.4%	27.6%	21.7%	21.0%	24.2%	14.9%	29.2%	7.65%