McTakeover!

Von Worley gathered a bunch of data out of curiosity to see how over populated we are with McDonalds restaurants… the facts are astounding (and pretty disgusting). He used lights on this map to indicate where the McDonalds were. It amazing to see that hardly anywhere is black…

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Here’s his explanation of what you see above:
“As expected, McDonald’s cluster at the population centers and hug the highway grid. East of the Mississippi, there’s wall-to-wall coverage, except for a handful of meager gaps centered on the Adirondacks, inland Maine, the Everglades, and outlying West Virginia.

For maximum McSparseness, we look westward, towards the deepest, darkest holes in our map: the barren deserts of central Nevada, the arid hills of southeastern Oregon, the rugged wilderness of Idaho’s Salmon River Mountains, and the conspicuous well of blackness on the high plains of northwestern South Dakota. There, in a patch of rolling grassland, loosely hemmed in by Bismarck, Dickinson, Pierre, and the greater Rapid City-Spearfish-Sturgis metropolitan area, we find our answer.

Between the tiny Dakotan hamlets of Meadow and Glad Valley lies the McFarthest Spot: 107 miles distant from the nearest McDonald’s, as the crow flies, and 145 miles by car!”

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One Comment

  1. Posted Oct 1, 2009 at 7:00 pm | Permalink

    funny how the only reason there are ANY gaps is due to the lack of people in the MidWest. Can’t sell Big Macs to DIRT.


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