Unstandardized Choropleth Map

I created this map using ArcMap

This is an unstandardized choropleth map of unemployment rates in the United States during the year 2008.  An unstandardized choropleth map uses the raw numbers from the data rather than "normalizing" or "standardizing" the values.  You can see that the westernmost states suffer the greatest from unemployment rates, which is probably due to the high percentages of populations in this area.  I created this map using ArcMap and downloaded the shapefiles from ArcGIS tutorial.