“…The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in openICPSR at https://doi.org/10.3886/ E192071V2, reference number E192071V2 (Magrini & Spiganti, 2023). These data were derived from the following resources available in the public domain: CENSUS, https://www2.census.gov/prod2/statcomp/usac/excel/LND01.xls, https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/cartographic-boundary.html, and https://www.ce nsus.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/carto-boundary-file.html; IPUMS, https://usa.ipums.org/usa-action/variables/group; NHGIS, https://www.nhgis.org/; USDA, https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/natural-amenities-scale/; USPTO, https://patentsview.org/download/data-download-tables.…”