If US lands were divided like US wealth (picture)

[WillParkinson]

[CrispyQ]

1. What red dot?

~sad smile.

[Bucky]

2. That dot seems to be somewhere near Hebronville, in Jim Hogg County

It's a shithole. No wonder the 1%ers let us have it.

[Bucky]

3. Nitpick: this map assumes property values are uniform across the nation.

The coastal lands represent considerably greater wealth. A more accurate picture would have the upper 10% owning everything east of the Sierra Nevadas.

[peacetalksforall]

7. Geography doesn't have anthing to do with the drama of illustrating per cents.

This could have been done within a rectangle, but the illustrator chose the shape of the country?

[Bucky]

10. My point was, if you based it on true property values, the area owned by the top 10% is even bigger

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. This has nothing to do with geography.

[Javaman]

4. Alaska and Hawaii? nt

[RC]

6. Alaska is way up North somewhere, but isn't Hawaii near Kenya?

So they don't count.

[WillParkinson]

9. I thought Alaska was close to Russia...

After all, Ms. Palin can see it when she looks out her window.

[Klukie]

5. I like it

Land and wealth are the same in the fact that there is only so much to go around. I don't think we should all be even steven, but we must make sure that the few don't earn/take it all.