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Which state has more tornadoes per person? More golf courses, Costcos, gun dealers, Amtrak stations? Ten questions made of real counts, about a minute. A new game every day.
#1 · today's first question
Does Louisiana have more or fewer Chick-fil-A restaurants per person than Massachusetts?
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🗺️ Today's States Higher or Lower (#1): Does Louisiana have more or fewer Chick-fil-A restaurants per person than Massachusetts? Ten questions, about a minute: https://get-instamaps.com/games/states-higher-or-lower?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=game
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From the same counts as our 50-state rankings: NOAA for tornadoes, the USGS wind turbine and solar databases, the EPA for Superfund sites, the ATF for licensed gun dealers, the FAA for heliports, the Defense Department for military bases, CMS for critical access hospitals, OpenStreetMap for golf courses, and AllThePlaces for store chains. Each state's count is divided by its Census Bureau 2024 population, so a small state can beat a big one.
Because raw counts mostly tell you which states are biggest. Per person, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Vermont and Alaska keep turning up at the top, which is the surprising part.
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