Infographic: New Map Shows #StopTheFCC Support By State

Sperling’s BestPlaces collected 145,000 #StopTheFCC tweets from November 24 to December 14 and analyzed them.

Each of the geolocated tweets was mapped to determine the number of tweets per state. Using this data, the research firm generated a choropleth map showing the number of tweets per capita (100,000 people).

Full rankings and data:

#StopTheFCC Tweets Per Capita
Rank	State	Tweets per Capita	Tweet Count	Population
1	District of Columbia	320.33	1872	584,400
2	West Virginia	72.52	1335	1,840,802
3	Oregon	56.83	2138	3,761,925
4	Massachusetts	50.36	3262	6,477,096
5	New York	49.28	9477	19,229,752
6	Colorado	44.91	2195	4,887,061
7	Nevada	43.03	1133	2,633,331
8	Washington	42.70	2802	6,561,297
9	California	41.95	15370	36,637,290
10	Vermont	38.13	238	624,258
11	Illinois	37.54	4785	12,745,359
12	New Jersey	37.53	3273	8,721,577
13	Florida	36.36	6731	18,511,620
14	Rhode Island	35.97	380	1,056,389
15	Maryland	35.34	2013	5,696,423
16	Maine	34.65	460	1,327,665
17	Alaska	32.99	228	691,189
18	Arizona	32.77	2047	6,246,816
19	Missouri	32.30	1913	5,922,314
20	New Mexico	30.45	613	2,013,122
21	Texas	30.45	7402	24,311,891
22	Pennsylvania	30.11	3798	12,612,705
23	Minnesota	30.05	1575	5,241,914
24	Michigan	29.95	2981	9,952,687
25	Tennessee	29.25	1824	6,234,968
26	Utah	28.79	765	2,657,236
27	Ohio	28.73	3308	11,512,431
28	Iowa	28.55	861	3,016,267
29	Connecticut	26.43	937	3,545,837
30	Wyoming	25.84	141	545,579
31	North Carolina	25.36	2351	9,271,178
32	Wisconsin	25.13	1417	5,637,947
33	Indiana	25.10	1611	6,417,398
34	Hawaii	24.60	328	1,333,591
35	Montana	23.41	228	973,739
36	Nebraska	22.23	400	1,799,125
37	New Hampshire	22.22	292	1,313,939
38	Delaware	21.11	186	881,278
39	Kentucky	20.98	899	4,285,828
40	Virginia	19.48	1526	7,835,577
41	Idaho	19.39	296	1,526,797
42	South Carolina	18.93	854	4,511,428
43	Georgia	18.38	1740	9,468,815
44	Oklahoma	17.88	657	3,675,339
45	North Dakota	16.97	112	659,858
46	Alabama	16.23	765	4,712,651
47	Arkansas	14.83	426	2,872,684
48	Louisiana	14.38	637	4,429,940
49	Kansas	14.35	403	2,809,329
50	South Dakota	14.01	112	799,462
51	Mississippi	8.57	252	2,941,991

Source: Sperling’s BestPlaces – www.bestplaces.net

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