Golf And Money

In some places the dark purple shows up in globs: Connecticut is the only state entirely in that color, though Massachusetts, New Jersey and Maryland have plenty. More curious are the anachronistic flickers of purple, like the spot in the northwest corner of Arkansas. That's Benton County, where you'll find the WalMart corporate headquarters and plenty of affiliated businesses. That dark-purple patch in New Mexico is Los Alamos County, home of the government's nuclear science lab.

The few light-purple counties (high play, low income) may call to mind images of unemployed men playing at 11 a.m. on a Tuesday. But that's not usually the case. The residents of those counties may well have time for golf because they're university students: Brazos County is home to Texas A&M, and Lincoln Parish is home to Louisiana Tech.