The scale of each graph has nothing to do with the trend it shows. The trending line (the white line used simply to better illustrate the trend of the individual columns of data) is either going UP or it is going DOWN. It is that simple. It doesn’t matter whether one Region decreases from, say, 300 to 50 and another decreases from 350 to 100. It is still a decrease. The point is that both the South and the Southwest have a trend line that is going UP instead of DOWN. Granted the trend line of the South is a very gradual rise compared to the Southwest trend line, but it is going up, regardless of the scaled numbers. That is the only point being made here.