Map Of The Day

From the 2009 Human Development Report. Steven Taylor opines:

What is interesting is that the lowest HDI county on the US
(Starr County Texas) is higher than the highest HDI municipality
Mexico (i.e.

This is, of course, likely not a shock to anyone paying even amodicum of attention to the situation.  Still, it continues tounderscore that fundamental aspect of this situation:  it is thedisparity of wealth between the two countries that continues to createthe synergy of...