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The U.S. zip code system if reorganized with Craigslist logic—and given that Craigslist logic is roughly based on the regions people consider close-ish to home, it reveals a set of community boundaries interdependent of city or state dividers.

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By 2050, somewhere between 50-75% of their population will live in cities.

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According to a new Pew study, increasing your earning potential may require literally moving on up: If you aim to climb the income ladder in the United States, your best bet might be to move north and east—and definitely stay out of the south.

Read more about where the income ladder leads.

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Color-mapping the outcome of every American presidential election ever. Also see 88 years of red-blue divide animated in one minute.

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That’s world wide. 

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Political candidate ads appearing in local newspapers are rated as annoying by just 18% of registered voters, while ads appearing on local TV are seen as annoying by 54%, according to results of a survey released in February 2012 by the Newspaper Association of America (NAA). Network TV (50%), cable TV (43%), and radio (39%) ads are also rated annoying by a significant proportion of registered voters, though political ads on the internet (27%) garner the frustration of far fewer.

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It is likely that the demographic changes will be experienced right across the country - and no longer confined to urban areas as in the past.

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The future of America is epitomised by the young people today. They are basically the melting pot we are going to see in the future.