{"id":13580,"date":"2009-09-24T10:05:05","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T15:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=13580"},"modified":"2012-10-17T02:18:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T07:18:33","slug":"the-ubiquity-of-mcdonalds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/09\/24\/the-ubiquity-of-mcdonalds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ubiquity of McDonald&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behold &#8220;a visualization of the contiguous United States, colored by distance to the nearest [of the about 13,000] domestic McDonald\u2019s&#8221; developed by Stephen Von Worley at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weathersealed.com\/2009\/09\/22\/where-the-buffalo-roamed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Weather Sealed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13581\" title=\"mcd_us_high\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/mcd_us_high-1024x743.jpg\" alt=\"mcd_us_high\" width=\"546\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/mcd_us_high-1024x743.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/mcd_us_high-499x362.jpg 499w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/mcd_us_high.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Von Worley writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As expected, McDonald\u2019s cluster at the population centers and hug the highway grid.\u00a0 East of the Mississippi, there\u2019s wall-to-wall coverage, except for a handful of\u00a0meager\u00a0gaps centered on the Adirondacks, inland Maine, the Everglades, and outlying West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s\u00a0Salmon River\u00a0Mountains, and the conspicuous well of blackness on the high plains of northwestern South Dakota.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p>Between the tiny Dakotan hamlets of\u00a0Meadow and Glad Valley lies the <a href=\"http:\/\/mapper.acme.com\/?ll=45.45955,-101.91356&amp;z=11\">McFarthest Spot<\/a>:\u00a0107 miles distant from the nearest McDonald\u2019s, as the crow flies, and\u00a0145 miles by car!<\/p>\n<p>Suffer a Big Mac Attack out there, and you\u2019re hurtin\u2019 for certain!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via a blog I&#8217;ve been borrowing a lot from lately, <a href=\"http:\/\/chartporn.org\/2009\/09\/23\/mickey-d-map\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chart Porn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behold &#8220;a visualization of the contiguous United States, colored by distance to the nearest [of the about 13,000] domestic McDonald\u2019s&#8221; developed by Stephen Von Worley at Weather Sealed: Von Worley writes: As expected, McDonald\u2019s cluster at the population centers and hug the highway grid.\u00a0 East of the Mississippi, there\u2019s wall-to-wall coverage, except for a handful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,2124,341],"class_list":["post-13580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-foodagriculture","tag-ruralurban"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13583,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13580\/revisions\/13583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}