One of the pleasures of being a know-it-all is noticing things the media/experts don't. These days the Times, the Post, and websites display a lot of data using maps, often at the county level, enabling me to "mapspot".
For example, it's often easy to pick out Ithaca, NY, or rather Tompkins county. It sits in the center of the state and with the presence of Cornell U. and Ithaca College it often stands out--it's an example of the "big sort", people separating themselves by money, lifestyle, and opinion.
On a darker note, there are counties in the west of North Dakota/South Dakota and around the Four Corners area of Arizona/New Mexico which stick out. Note the Vox maps on various causes and trends of mortality in this piece. Why--because there are Indian reservations there--Sioux and Navaho. Watch Longmire.
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