The “Clean States”Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, & Wisconsin

Population Growth in the "Clean States"

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population 2000

est. population2006

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html

State Rankings

MN 25WI 30IA 40MI 44

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/ranks/rank02.xls

Diversity in the “Clean States”?

Diversity in the Clean States Relative to that of the US

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percent other

percent hispanicpersons

percent blackpersons

percent whitepersons

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html

A Closer Look at Diversity within the "Clean States" Relative to that of the US

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percent black personspercent hispanic persons

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html

Population Density

MN

IA

WI

MI

www.wikipedia.comhttp://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/tables/08s0029.xls

Urban & Rural Populations (%)

Urban Rural

US 79 21

MI 74.7 25.3

MN 70.9 29.1

IA 61.1 38.9

WI 68.3 31.7

Per Capita Personal Income

3233343536373839404142

MinnesotaWisconsinMichiganIowa

National Average

State

($) in thousands

Source: http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/p60-235.pdf

State Rankings

MN 11 WI 25MI 26IA 27

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Rank of High Tech Economy

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State

Out of 50

Source: http://www.neweconomyindex.org/states/2002/overall_rank.html

Manufacturing Jobs

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Iowa

MichiganMinnesota

USA

States

As percent of totaljobs

Rank in US

Source: http://www.census.gov/statab/ranks/rank26.xls

Religion and Political CultureEvangelical-Protestant

Protestant Catholic

Minnesota 21% 32% 28%

Iowa 24% 30% 25%

Michigan 26% 19% 23%

Wisconsin 24% 23% 29%

National 26% 18% 24%

-Moralist political culture

http://religions.pewforum.org/maps

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State Rankings

MN 1WI 2IA 8MI 15

http://www.statemaster.com/graph/gov_200_tot_vot_as_per-2004-election-total-votes-percentage

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2004 Presidential Election Voter Turnout

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% Voted

2008 Presidential Donations

http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/

Rural Areas vs. Cities

The Clean States Believe that Children are our Future

State National Rank Change in Funding

from 2003

Michigan 4 4%

Minnesota 12 -0.5%

Wisconsin 15 5%

Iowa 31 1.4%

Total Revenues (‘000) for Public k-12 Schools from State Gov

http://www.nea.org/edstats/images/04rankings-update.pdf

Life is Good in the Clean States

Funding for Welfare

(lower ratings= good)

Percentage of Population under the Poverty Level

(higher ratings= better)

Prisoner to Population Ratio

(lower ratings= better)

MN 12 48 1

MI 17 32 38

WI 3 45 25

IA 21 44 11

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/rankings.html

National Rankings: