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duckduckohno t1_j1i5wl3 wrote

There is some interesting vertical banding of populations east of the I-5 corridor, I wonder if this is an artifact or something else to explain the unusual distribution.

https://i.imgur.com/19vYaPH.jpeg

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grumbly t1_j1ihcl1 wrote

It’s an artifact of the hexagonal bucketing.

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vanisaac t1_j1jhj57 wrote

You can also see it in the Olympics. It's gotta be something to do with the data for people living on federal lands.

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TheGruntingGoat t1_j1l51g9 wrote

Could be this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkerboarding_(land)

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WikiSummarizerBot t1_j1l528j wrote

Checkerboarding (land)

>Checkerboarding refers to a situation where land ownership is intermingled between two or more owners, resulting in a checkerboard pattern. Checkerboarding is prevalent in the Western United States and Western Canada because of extensive use in railroad grants for western expansion, although it had its beginnings in the canal land grant era.

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vanisaac t1_j1l5883 wrote

It is very much not. There is basically no checkerboarding outside the foothills of the Cascades.

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