KIDS Count Map

Related to the post below, here is a map describing the geography of states' ranks by order of children's issues. The darker the blue, the worse the conditions for children in that state.

Map from Annie E. Casey Foundation KIDS COUNT Data Center

What trends do you see in this map? Do you have any ideas about why the rankings are distributed in the way we see here?

You can look through the Annie E. Casey Foundation's data and create your own maps based on a variety of variables (education, poverty, baby birth weight, etc.) by going to their Data Center.