Measuring patriotism where it counts
I was fascinated this week by a new patriotism survey of the states by a blog generally devoted to ranking U.S. cities and developing novel ways of looking at the real estate market. Then I read the criteria for the rankings. Patriotism was measured, said the MOVOTO bloggers, on the following criteria: • National Historic Landmarks per Capita • Veterans per Capita • Money Spent to Fund Veterans • Percent of Residents That Voted in the Last Presidential Election • People Who Google for American Flags to Buy • People Who List America as an Interest on Facebook [caption id="attachment_1762" align="alignright" width="500"] This infographic shows patriotism levels in the states based on information gathered from social media networks, historic landmark locations, number of veterans per capita and active voters in the…