The orange represents 50 percent of the economic activity of the entire country whereas the blue represents the other half. Looks like my hometown is pulling its weight quite well. Of course, it's hard to go wrong with 3M, General Mills, Target, Best Buy, Cargill and UHC in one spot, just to name a few.
Hmm...I see a whole lot of blue in red state areas. What a bunch of freeloaders...must be the fault of Obama and the federal government!;)
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You really think Minneapolis represents more economic activity than Silicon Valley and the rest of the SF Bay area? This map is a joke.
Funny too how you immediately brag about your local big corporations (particularly when big corps are not the economic engine of the country).
"You really think Minneapolis represents more economic activity than Silicon Valley and the rest of the SF Bay area? This map is a joke."
The map may well be a joke (the original site indicates it has problems), but Mark didn't say that Minneapolis contributes more than California, just more than most of the Southern states. The map indicates that LA and Silicon Valley are on the map, they just aren't large as they should be -- the SF/Valley area should be at least as big as the Twin Cities area.
I have a basic problem with the very idea of this map, however. It seems to overvalue certain kinds of economic activity; in particular, activities that take very little space to accomplish.
It undervalues perhaps the most important economic activity of all: agriculture. We could get along just fine without iPhones and stock markets. But without agriculture, we're all dead.
And gosh, a lot of those areas are port facilities. Counting the economic activity of goods made, grown or manufactured away from the port but as sold or exported from that port as being economic activity from there is disingenuous at best.
As well, in companies such as Cargill as Mark mentioned - the headquarters of a company may well be based in a large city - that's where you put office/communication based activity - but most of that company's activity occurs elsewhere.
No Atlanta? Portland has many times more economic activity than Seattle/Tacoma? This is junk stats, junk econ.
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