What are the Timeline sorting criteria based on?
The colored naming regions are based on my own analysis of state-by-state naming tendencies, focusing on names that are significantly more or less common in that state than in the nation overall. Groupings are determined by shared naming patterns. The income and population density rankings are based on U.S. Census Bureau figures; Republican/Democratic ratio reflects voting percentages in the 2004 presidential election. I can’t see anything! The NameMapper is a Java applet, a program written in the secure Java language and formatted to run within a web browser. If you can’t see the NameVoyager, your browser may not currently support Java. Check Options/Preferences to make sure that Java is enabled. If you don’t have Java installed at all, you can download the free plug-in from Sun Microsystems: http://java.com/en/download/ I get a nasty-looking error message where the map is supposed to be. Sorry about that — a few people seem to get that error, and we’re trying to sort out why. In the
