• stupidcasey@lemmy.world
    2 years

    Could you imagine living in Hawaii and not having readily available corn fields? How would I do all my corn field based activities?

      • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 years

        To be fair, the corn isn’t growing in the blue part of Illinois

        • BlueLineBae@midwest.socialEnglish
          2 years

          Yes it is. As a resident, I can attest that the corn is growing about damn near everywhere.

        • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2 years

          Never been to Chicagoland? Every empty field is filled in with corn. Smash a gas station flat? Now it’s a cornfield.

      • modifier@lemmy.ca
        2 years

        Multiple counties in Illinois voted in favor of exploring secession from the state because they don’t like how Chicago turns the state blue. It would definitely be a red state without us.

          • PriorityMotif@lemmy.world
            2 years

            I was just looking at some of the recent voting data by state and one of the southwestern or Western states was only 6k votes from electing Harris. I think there were only about 100k votes total. Maybe it was Oklahoma?

            • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
              2 years

              I find that interesting yet hard to believe.

              I tried to search for the info but Google is failing me and I’m too lazy to click a bunch of States on an interactive map.

              • PriorityMotif@lemmy.world
                2 years

                I just have been looking at numbers on election night or something.

                There’s still a lot of States that were extremely close and if it weren’t for death by a thousand cuts, then Republicans would have no chance of winning. They have to have alll the voter disenfrachising, spiking the 2020 census in blue states, and all the other dirty tricks in order to win.

                https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvglg3klrpzo

                • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
                  2 years

                  It’s funny that they need all those dirty tricks when they already have the massive electoral college advantage.

                  And then all that pales in comparison to people not voting. Needs to be mandatory like Australia. Send in a blank ballot if you’re so against it but you will do it.

      • CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafedeleted by creatorEnglish
        2 years

        Only because of Chicago & C®ook County. Virtually the rest of Illinois is red.

        • PriorityMotif@lemmy.world
          2 years

          Not really. There’s a bunch of tiny rural counties with less than 10k people in them that are. Most places are full of normal people. You forget that a lot of people don’t vote, many other people don’t understand what they’re voting for. Most people wouldn’t want anything to do with the Republican party if they understood their policies.

        • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          2 years

          still majority yes, but also minnesota is a solid blue state. It’s maybe like a 75/25 split which isn’t that radical.

          In fact, of the yellows, there are 3 Democratic, 2 Swing States, and 5 Republican.

          • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
            2 years

            I only found Minnesota and Illinois as consistently Democratic voting states. What’s the third?

            Edit: I just saw Delaware.

  • bestagon@lemmy.world
    2 years

    This makes me wonder what the map creator considers a green amount of corn to be lol. 100%?

  • atro_city@fedia.io
    2 years

    I don’t agree with the color choice. Green would’ve been much nicer.

    • billygoat@catata.fish
      2 years

      Yeah, 10%, 20%, and 37% should each be buffet different colors.

      Damn autocorrect

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
      2 years

      If you’re referring to CA, it’s % of the entire state. Think of how much of CA is arid, mountainous, or otherwise unsuitable for corn or other agriculture.

    • Comment105@lemm.ee
      2 years

      You’re probably seeing mostly grapes, tomatoes, cotton and cannabis, as well as grains that aren’t corn?

  • Pyr@lemmy.ca
    2 years

    I can’t imagine 1/3 of everything you see in an entire state being corn.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 years

    Having lived in Chicagoland, what are the corn growing incentives there?! Every empty field in the city is full of corn. Seems smart.

    • MintyFresh@lemmy.world
      2 years

      Drainage and flood risk. Chicago is basically a swamp. Idk about every lot, there’s probably ridiculous tax loopholes and kick backs, etc what with it being Illinois. But there’s a lot of shit land in and around Chicago