Claritas' Data Cupid Takes Aim at What's in a Name.News/Assignment Editors SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 10, 2003 For Valentine's Day Valentine's Day: see Saint Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day Lovers' holiday celebrated on February 14, the feast day of St. Valentine, one of two 3rd-century Roman martyrs of the same name. St. this year, Claritas, the nation's leading market research firm and demographic data provider, called on its Data Cupid to answer a couple of questions: 1. If you were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. "love" where would you go? 2. Where would the term "be my valentine" perhaps have the most meaning? Working within the confines of his typically unromantic world of demography, the Data Cupid sought answers by identifying the top 100 U.S. counties of 100,000-plus population (based on 2000 Census figures) with the highest index by county/state of those named Love and Valentine. After he crunched the numbers, the Data Cupid found that southern states Southern States U.S. Confederacy government of 11 Southern states that left the Union in 1860. [Am. Hist.: EB, III: 73] Dixie popular name for Southern states in U.S. and for song. [Am. Hist. dominated in the rankings for both names. For Love, 16 of the top 20 counties were in southern states and for Valentine, six of the top 10 counties, and eight of the top 20, were in southern states. For the name Love, North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. led the way with four counties in the top 10 and seven in the top 20, including the number one county, Cabarrus, the home of, among other things, the Dale Earnhardt This article is about the elder Dale Earnhardt. For his son, see Dale Earnhardt, Jr.. For the racing team he founded, see Dale Earnhardt, Inc.. Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Sr. Jr. Jiu Jitsu This spelling may indicate:
As for Valentine(s), despite the high percentage of southern states in the top 20, northern states ranked number one and two -- Fairfield County, Ohio Fairfield County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. As of 2000, the population was 122,759. Its county seat is Lancaster.6 Its name is a reference to the Fairfield area of the original Lancaster.[2] Geography According to the U. , the birthplace of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and Schuylkill County, Pa., home of the Pennsylvania Dutch Pennsylvania Dutch [Ger. Deutsch=German], people of E Pennsylvania of German descent who migrated to the area in the 18th cent., particularly those in Northampton, Berks, Lancaster, Lehigh, Lebanon, York, and adjacent counties. Folk Festival A Folk festival celebrates traditional folk crafts and folk music. Regional Denmark
Virginia listed three counties in the top 20, two of which were in the top 10, Richmond (City) County and Henrico County at numbers four and nine. The third county was Newport News, ranked number 14. Tennessee also had two counties in the top 10 -- Blount County at number three and Knox County at number five. Blount County also has the distinction of being the only county to be in the top 20 rankings for both names, number 20 for Love and number three for Valentine. Here is a breakdown of the Love/Valentine top 20 county lists ranked by index, which is a measure of how common the name Love is relative to the nation as a whole. A score of 100 means the name is equally as common as it is in the total U.S. So, Cabarrus County, with an index of 798, has nearly eight times more Love(s) per capita [Latin, By the heads or polls.] A term used in the Descent and Distribution of the estate of one who dies without a will. It means to share and share alike according to the number of individuals. than the country. The complete listing of the Top 100 counties can be found at www.claritas.com/.
Love
Index Index
1. Cabarrus, NC 798 11. Hinds, MS 359
2. York, SC 507 12. Robeson, NC 357
3. Union, NC 479 13. St. Louis (City), MO 320
4. Gaston, NC 414 14. Delaware, IN 309
5. Comanche, OK 404 15. Shelby, TN 287
6. St. Lawrence, NY 396 16. Mecklenburg, NC 285
7. Lee, AL 384 17. Jefferson , AL 273
8. Kankakee, IL 376 18. Muscogee, GA 267
9. Alamance, NC 364 19. Davidson, NC 261
10. Madison, AL 361 20. Blount, TN 256
Valentine
1. Fairfield, OH 391 11. Maui, HI 227
2. Schuylkill, PA 350 12. Carroll, MD 226
3. Blount, TN 336 13. Stark, OH 219.8
4. Richmond, VA 318 14. Newport News, VA 219.5
5. Knox, TN 287 15. Franklin, PA 219.2
6. Aiken, SC 274 16. Frederick, MD 219
7. Washington, MD 267 17. Columbiana, OH 217
8. Brown, WI 261 18. Cumberland, NJ 208
9. Henrico, VA 233 19. East Baton Rouge, LA 207
10. Caddo, LA 232 20. Prince George's, MD 206
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