Tuesday, February 26, 2013
ELECTORALLY SPEAKING
This guy has, as an art project, developed geographical areas of equal population.
Electoral college reform (fifty states with equal population)
I am fascinated with the graphics of this. I also like the names.
A point of clarity. See the legend. Cities that already have 500,000 people in them are marked with a square. Los Angeles, Orange. Other cities are included in their own area. Bakersfield is in Tule. Santa Fe is part of Shiprock.
I am living in Temecula.
I love the names.
Tule is a thick grand fog that settles in the San Joaquin Valley. Shiprock is a prominent geographical feature sacred to the Navajo. Temecula is a town near us, on the other side of the mountain. I go through it when I go the scenic route to San Diego. "Exva Temeeku" is the name of a sacred place, the union between earth and sky. The peoples of this area were Temecula. Many tribes. This is their area. Right to go back, eh?
Actually, I think I am living in "Phoenix" which is named after, well, Phoenix but that is a city with a square. Somehow I think he took the easy way out here. I would rather be in Temecula. So I will say that I am.
I grew up in Pocono! In the Pocono Mountains. Pennsylvania.
