The high numbers in SC, LA, and AL makes me think these folks live in these states but surf in FL and TX. Chad, is it broken down by where these folks live and where they surf? I think that would be a good question with many respondants living in a state like SC and surfing FL or living in NY and surfing NJ.
excellent data slicing
definitely seems a little askew. an interesting way to gauge this may be to look for number of surf shops. for example, in the back of ESM there are way more SC shops listed than TX. i'd also expect you'd get a lot more beach tourism, even for the smaller coastline. but even with the trend toward more clothes than boards sold -- and more recently, online stores -- you could argue that those traditional summer tourist towns encourage "recreational" surfing more than others. other considerations: miles of coastline. (VA's got deeper roots than anywhere but FL, but much less coast.) population (NH is behind CT, which has no swell window). and cold water is certainly a factor, even moreso in 2000
Here is something that looks odd about these results.
Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama seems too high.
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