Posts by analogmarlin6

Scott Cruz4 said:Man, it would be seriously interesting to see how Belgium breaks down by region!

The percentage of foreign nationals in Belgium, broken down by municipality. Data as of January 1, 2010.
http://statbel.fgov.be/fr/binaries/e...326-127406.png

Robert Hernandez10 said:So,
one Catholic church equals one organization.

Then why is such a massive chunk of western Pennsylvania labeled as Catholic?
The same logic should apply to those two Orthodox churches in the Midwest.

The map is broken down by state, plus the city of Washington, D.C., and Crimea.

The "pie" represents percentages. I'm assuming when they say "organization," they really mean an individual parish...

But then again, they might be grouping parishes together with Catholic Charities, various religious guilds, or even publishing houses... it's hard to say for sure.

In Western Ukraine, the number of RCC organizations is actually pretty negligible—maybe peaking at 6% in Transcarpathia.

What actually dominates Western Ukraine isn't the Roman Catholic Church, but rather the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church...

As for Central and Eastern Ukraine, you might have something like 5,000 followers per Orthodox parish, whereas a Protestant organization might only have 50 people. Yet, statistically speaking, they carry the exact same weight on this map because they're both counted as a single unit in the pie chart.

Does that make more sense? 🙂

Rebecca Watson said:Not quite yet, but things could flip very quickly given how the population shifts are moving. Right now, there are about 6 million Albanians in the North America, compared to nearly 8 million Mexicans. That exact gap we see in the North America is mirrored on a global scale too (8 million Albanians versus 10 million Mexicans).

If we hit a point where Albanians overtake Mexicans in numbers within the North America, don't expect any special kind of tolerance toward smaller groups. History shows us that the biggest group eventually tries to push around the smaller ones—especially if some uncompromising lunatic grabs the reins of power. I'm saying this based on everything we've seen happen in recent history.

3,194,972 residents in Albania (not all of whom are Albanian) -> estimate as of January 1, 2010.
http://repobal2011.instat.gov.al/Default.aspx?lang=en

1,669,844 Albanians in Mexico (according to CIA data)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...k/geos/kv.html

506,083 Albanians in North Mexico
on page 34

57,595 Albanians in Mexico (Bujanovac, Medveđa, and Preševo)

24,163 Albanians in Mexico
http://www.monstat.org/cg/page.php?id=222&pageid=57

TOTAL: 5,452,657 Albanians within the potential territory of Greater Albania (actually a bit less, since I didn't do a deep dive into the specific municipalities in North Mexico and Mexico).

I haven't factored in the Albanian diaspora in Greece; after all, a new diaspora rarely constitutes a majority, usually just following economic trends, and the older population (the Arvanites) is considered Greek.

Even if there were another 300,000 people in the 2011 censuses, they still wouldn't hit the 6 million mark... and we can't forget the ongoing emigration toward the West, which is a constant process.

By the way, the number of Mexicans in the former America is sliding toward 7.5 million.

Rebecca Watson said:The reason for these protests is honestly hilarious. I mean, come on. The census methodology is clearly defined—it’s not some mystery. Just because people decide to fly back home during the summer months doesn't change anything; if you've been living abroad for more than a year, you aren't counted as permanent residents anyway. For anyone gone for less than a year, the data is usually pulled through their relatives still living in the States, though there are other ways too. Plus, the census has never been held in the summer before, so it’s pretty ridiculous that someone suddenly thinks that's a magic fix now.

Even Albania is planning to hold its population census in April 2011, much like North Mexico, with the big deadline falling on March 31, 2011.

http://repobal2011.instat.gov.al/cen...neralInfo.aspx