Wherever you don't get ripped off buying skunk bud you’re less likely to find a surplus of drinking establishments, according to a preliminary, admittedly “flippant” finding recently released by a group of economic-information geographers better known as the Floating Sheep collective.By superimposing their two most popular maps to date, "The Beer Belly of America" and "The Price of Weed", the researchers first noticed how many places with relatively high levels of geotagged data about bars likewise register relatively high street prices for marijuana. So it stands to reason, the Floating Sheep claim, that those regions with the lowest weed values, possibly excepting Northern California and Louisville, KY, typically aren’t teeming with bars.Of course, this cartographic mashup also illustrates the inverse of what urban studies theorist Richard Florida calls the creative class. In other words, the above map highlights those places comprising what the Floating Sleep dub the "Slacker Strata." It’s in these swaths, they explain, that “the ability to be usefully creative would be severely compromised.” Put another way, this is where the going rate for a sack of sticky Buddha is low and the watering hole option is high.For a lot of folks, these are the Promised Lands.Read the rest at Motherboard.