POST: Is Part of the United States in the Third World?, The Map Scroll, May 5, 2009

Anybody who's lived and traveled extensively around America and the world won't find this listing surprising. In fact, the "comparables" according to list proximity are often quite poetically matched.

Ah, but America is completely homogeneous, signaling the homogenizing future that is globalization.

Or maybe it's a multinational union where strange amounts of diversity persist!