The Atlantic taps into concerns about increasing income equality in the USA and maps out what it claims are the new 12 States of a fractured nation.
The interactive Flash map groups counties into a dozen categories, with colourfully descriptive titles like monied burbs, industrial metropolises, minority central and Mormon outposts.
Click on the icons to see which counties belong to each state, also how family incomes have changed since 1980.
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