Blog Participation #7

 



This choropleth map showing poverty in the US by county is exemplary for the following reasons:


1. The colors in the legend correspond with colors that a viewer would attribute to positive or negative poverty rates in America.

2. The map states the county with the highest poverty population in South Carolina and the county with the lowest poverty population in New Mexico for viewers who may not be able to see it on the map. 

3. The map leaves out urban counties as it could skew the data. Leaving the data as both urban and rural may have the counties in white to either have a much lower or much higher poverty rate.


Source: USA Poverty Rates by County. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ALYQ6KZ-Yw/S8yfPaLJonI/AAAAAAAAAFU/23ooUR_i1ic/s1600/2008PovertyCountiesMapfour.jpg.

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