A New Map Of The U.S., Created By How Our Dollar Bills Move

A theoretical physicist studied the movement of currency - aided by the program WheresGeorge.com which allows for bill to be tracked by participants - and argues that this map more accurately reflects the regions in the U.S. than our state maps do:

Money spent in one area does not necessarily cross the blue lines - notable the dark blue lines.

Regarding Texas, notice how El Paso is off on its own, but all other metropolitan areas in the state are interconnected. And only minimal barriers exist between Houston and the rest of the Gulf Coast. And we don't seem to engage much with Oklahoma do we?

It would be interesting to add to this the direction of this interchange Currency exchange is not a two way street.