Posts about Loudoun
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A Virginia man’s signs tell drivers not to stop for people trying to cross the road
Crossing the street can be a challenge for cyclists and pedestrians, even if there is a crosswalk. One man in Sterling recently decided that the solution is to encourage drivers to not slow down at all, even at major intersections. Keep reading…
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Here’s how immigrants contribute to Virginia and Maryland’s workforces
Like DC, Virginia and Maryland have a huge number of maids, painters, and taxi drivers born outside of the US. But Virginia also has a large number of computer programmers who weren’t born here, and in Maryland, that’s the case for a lot of medical scientists. These graphs show which jobs in Virginia and Maryland have the most immigrants. Keep reading…
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DC has almost no white residents without college degrees. (It’s a different story for black residents.)
One of FiveThirtyEight’s great interactive features looks at voters in different groups (college educated whites, Hispanics, etc.) and their effect on the Electoral College. One part graphs each group and its prevalence in various states. This graph really stuck out for how unusual DC is: Keep reading…