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This is a geographic locative media population migration research project investigating possible correlations between the historic out-migration of residents of Pittsburgh, PA and the numbers of Pittsburgh Steelers themed restaurants and bars around the United States today. The project was spawned during discussions of the large numbers of ex-steel workers and their families leaving Pittsburgh during and in the decades after the fall of the U.S. steel industry and the resulting closing of the steel mills during the 1980s.
What has been discovered here warrants a full investigation. The project will continue and will look at earlier data of the migration out of Pittsburgh starting in the 1980s during closing of the mills, but this is a telling snapshot using recent data (from 2000-2008).
Shown here is a layered diagram showing the population migration during the years 2000-2008, overlaid with the U.S. map and data on currently registered Steelers bars/restaurants showing the total count of bars/restaurants from 3 states with a high migration destination and 3 with the lowest.
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