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  1. Jul 1, 2022 · QuickFacts data are derived from: Population Estimates, American Community Survey, Census of Population and Housing, Current Population Survey, Small Area Health Insurance Estimates, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, State and County Housing Unit Estimates, County Business Patterns, Nonemployer Statistics, Economic Census, Survey of ...

  2. Jan 23, 2024 · This map shows cities, towns, counties, interstate highways, U.S. highways, state highways, main roads, secondary roads, driving distances, ferries, rivers, lakes, airports, parks, forests, travel plazas, tourist information centers and points of interest in Massachusetts.

    • The Claim: There Are No Blue States, only Blue Cities
    • County Map Doesn’T Represent Election Results
    • Electoral Slates Are Determined by Population
    • Map Is Outdated and Misleading
    • Our Rating: False
    • Our Fact-Check Sources

    A viral image circulating on social media is promoting a misleading representation of the U.S. electorate. The image shows a red and blue map of the country with the words “There are zero blue states only blue cities,” across the top. One July 25 Facebook postwith the image reads, “so how did communist tyranny take over?” Former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancr...

    Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center and professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told USA TODAY the image was misleading. “Because elections are decided by the votes of actual people rather than the land represented by county borders, it is incorrect to conclude that a state is ‘red’ or ‘blue’ becau...

    The Facebook post's focus on a map with more red than blue implies each section of the map should be given equal weight, but electoral power in the U.S. is determined by population, not land mass. States are awarded electoral votes based on their population as measured in the last Census. Each state’s electoral slate is equal to the state’s total n...

    The map in the viral image also misleads because it shows counties while the text addresses cities. According to Burden, the results in the map also do not appear to show results from any of the last four presidential elections. Fact check:False claim persists online that Trump will be reinstated as president in August USA TODAY created a map of th...

    Based on our research, we rate the claim that there are no blue states, only blue cities FALSE. Elections are determined in the Electoral Collage by the state's total votes – not which candidate wins the most counties or has votes spread over the largest area.

    NPR, Nov. 13, 2014, The Color Of Politics: How Did Red And Blue States Come To Be?
    Cambridge Dictionary, accessed July 28, blue state
    Cambridge Dictionary, accessed July 28, red state
  3. Sep 5, 2021 · Two neighboring census tracts near Spanish Fort, Daphne and Fairhope in Baldwin County - 107.08 and 107.09 - added the most total people in of any tracts in the state between 2010 and 2020....

  4. Mar 10, 2024 · This Alabama County map displays its 67 counties. Alabama’s count of 67 counties represents the same number as the states of Florida and Pennsylvania . So, Alabama ranks 20th for its tally of counties, tied with these two states.

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  6. Aug 12, 2021 · The map below shows how each town in Massachusetts has changed from the 2010 Census to the 2020 one. You can see the percent change in population since 2010, or explore each town’s...