World According to Americans (Map)
About right:
Via Stephen Green, who titles it “Close Enough for Jazz.” It’s apparently been around a while, since the site referenced in the bottom corner has been “on hiatus” since August 2008.
UPDATE: It’s worth noting that variations of this idea have been around forever. There was one years ago called “The World According to Ronald Reagan.”
There are dozens of these out there; I haven’t the foggiest who originated the meme.
The world according to San Francisco
http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-world-according.html
Hmmm, I wonder if that’s the inspiration for, or blatant rip off of http://xkcd.com/850/
I think they all spring from that famous New Yorker cover that showed the country the way a New Yorker would…
Michael,
“Inspiration for” is the correct answer. The XKCD comic was written in response to those maps that have been floating around for about 8 years.
And as always, XKCD does it the best.