Wow, that map is both hilarious and sad. Also just like basically every other infographic-map you can pick out the South basically immediately can't you.
Once again, Vox provides news poorly sourced infographics you can use.
Massachusetts is "the ocean", by the way, and Rhode Island/Maine both about the beach. I don't want to make it any smaller.
Oh, it's actually a map of "most distinctive" thanks-object for each state, not most popular. That's too bad. I kind of thought it was a bit too good to be true.
On the FB post, they break it down by age as well, and the most striking thing is that FB definitely does not skew young, (not that it supposedly did anymore.) Or at least, grateful FB users are not young.
Oh, and they're using data from a bunch of those 30-day gratitude challenges and that sort of thing - not just Thanksgiving day itself.
More interestingly, Facebook also looked at the most unique thanks given in each state. This isn't the most frequent subject of grateful status updates, but rather the ones that turn up at a disproportionately high rate.
Just to clarify -- I'm sure that friends and family are most common in every state.
8: I would have been first but I was daydreaming about the laughter of children.
Why does Alaska like children slaughter?
Is there a link where I can zoom in? I'm having a hard time reading the text for the New England states.
California has a drought because it never left enough thanks for rain on Facebook.
Reminds them howt he yused to be.
California's pretty funny. Also is there anything behind the country music thing in several states, or do they just really like country music?
I wonder what's with Louisiana and rainbows? Hawaii I understand, but I never associated them with Louisiana particularly.
Yeah, this kind of thing has to look for most distinctive rather than most popular, otherwise instead of cute graphicable results you get relative homogeneity - we are, after all, one country.
This is the original post about the data. Surely the strangest of them all is Illinois?
I'm currently inspecting Illinois. Looks normal but for all the moving walkways.
20: Yes, something very odd is apparently going on in Illinois.
All I have to say about Vox is that Yggles is picking up the tab if he ever deigns to attend another meetup with us mere mortals.
When we look at the topics most unanimously talked about by women, we also see the significant others get a lot of love -- as well as babies and "fur babies" (pets).
Fur babies? WTF.
17: Louisiana does have a lot of rainbows. The weather patterns down there seem to do a lot of the "raining in sunshine" thing, which lends itself to rainbows.
Fur babies? WTF.
Not to be confused with fur burgers.
I just don't even get how/why "country music": would be something to be thankful for. I can imagine being thankful for a particular artist, but a really broad and ill-defined genre?
What does Vox have that makes it worth more than Slate or Salon or, for that matter, the Washington Post?
29: Just guessing, but their demographic may be younger.
I think for a number of people country music knits the raveled sleeve of care.
I just don't even get how/why "country music": would be something to be thankful for. I can imagine being thankful for a particular artist, but a really broad and ill-defined genre?
Hip Hop you the love of my life
Kentuckians like their "work family" more than their real family?
Hope you are not calling the beach superficial
What does Vox have that makes it worth more than Slate or Salon or, for that matter, the Washington Post?
Advertiser friendly content (sports, tech, lots of video). Rapid reader growth. "Cool" design. A supposedly very powerful/flexible CMS. Is it worth that much money, though? No idea. Depends how profitable it is. Overheads have to be a lot lower than the WaPo, but then so will advertising revenues.
35: It makes sense that video would be more advertiser-friendly. They're making it hard to skip through the ads.
How people like Klein and Yggles fit into that isn't clear to me.
Klein and Yggles are a pretty small part of Vox Media. SB Nation and The Verge are much, much bigger.
37: Yes. That part makes perfect sense. It doesn't exactly make sense to me why Vox would think that Klein was worth a lot to the brand.
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The last time my former advisor and I met, before Rascal was born, he got a call from his brother and asked if I minded stepping outside for a bit.
Now I'm listening to the recording of our meeting and realizing I didn't stop recording, or take the ipad, when I stepped outside. Oops.
(I'm actually not curious whatsoever. I'm pretty sure it's half medical and half who cares. I just think it's funny that I stealth-recorded him.)
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Back to the OP -- is "Heavenly Father" a phrase used a lot by Mormons? Does that explain Utah and Idaho?
I think so, based on Mormon bloggers.
Mormon Wiki on "Heavenly Father." From some searches, I agree with a comment someone made that what seems to be the Mormon use of just "Heavenly Father" rather than "Our Heavenly Father" sounds odd to my mainstream Protestant-raised ears.
Yes. The little Mormons I babysat when I was a teenager used to stop playing periodically and say "Let's give thanks to Heavenly Father!" and so I'd say, "Okay, do we say 'Thank you, Heavenly Father, for letting us play tigers and have this good time together until [kids' parents] get home soon?'" and that seemed to be good enough, but it was always more unsettling than if they'd just said "God."
Four Midwestern states say thunderstorms. I actually understand that, but it still surprises me. There must be a backstory.
No evident explanation here:
It's like you people don't pay attention to musicals at all.
47: I assumed it was because the only rain you get during the summer is from a thunderstorm.
You do get rain without thunder in the Midwest, though. One theory is that thunderstorms relieve the endemic boredom. A second theory is that thunderstorms cool off oppressive weather.
I don't think that Altenberg's suggetsion applies in the Midwest:
Siehe, Fraue, auch du brauchst Gewitterregen!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTXx0onOfng
And a thunderstorm on the Great Plains is a thing of Awesome Grandeur.
The feeling, although not the full experience has been a challenge for artists and filmmakers. Terence Malick's Badlands has a beautiful thunderstorm in it, probably the best I can remember. There's a bit of an homage to it in Capote, where the camera backs far away from some children walking by the house, and the storm clouds overhead fill the screen.
You do get rain without thunder
But not vice versa.
I definitely love them, and especially when I was a kid, when we would put on swimming trunks and run around outside. I just didn't know it was a trend.
I think it's a combination of all both: thunderstorms break the heat during summer, and are really great in broad flat plains-y areas where you can see them coming from a ways off and they just cover the sky when they get there.
Looking at some actual search results, rain is often mentioned, but there are some like this one: Today I am thankful for thunderstorms that rumble the earth and remind me of how big God is.
Also this pinterest tease: See more about rain, gwyneth paltrow and thunderstorms
The little Mormons I babysat when I was a teenager used to stop playing periodically and say "Let's give thanks to Heavenly Father!" and so I'd say, "Okay, do we say 'Thank you, Heavenly Father, for letting us play tigers and have this good time together until [kids' parents] get home soon?'" and that seemed to be good enough, but it was always more unsettling than if they'd just said "God."
Were they called Rod and Todd?
Why does Alaska like children slaughter?
DON'T JUDGE US.
Back to the OP -- is "Heavenly Father" a phrase used a lot by Mormons? Does that explain Utah and Idaho?
Totally.
11: Just type ctrl+, BG. Works on videos too.