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# Note: percent map is designed to work with the counties data set
# It may not work correctly with other data sets if their row order does 
# not exactly match the order in which the maps package plots counties
percent_map <- function(var, color, legend.title, min = 0, max = 100) {

  # generate vector of fill colors for map
  shades <- colorRampPalette(c("white", color))(100)
  
  # constrain gradient to percents that occur between min and max
  var <- pmax(var, min)