What happened to Hawaii?
US states redrawn so as to have equal populations
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#12(Attribution: I found it on Fallows's blog: http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2010/01/thought... )
working link http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2010/01/thought...
Link to the creator's page, with said map: http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/reform/
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#13Original: http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/reform/
Close-up of NYC area: http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/reform/nyc/
This was probably carved out by hand. However, this would be an interesting problem to solve using integer programming, a technique that has been used to model the related problem of gerrymandering.
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#14Brilliant. Even in the senate, you can argue that low-population states like Wyoming shouldn't get 2 seats, or that Wyoming needs 2 seats to maintain control of its interests. Periodically redrawing state boundaries sidesteps this whole debate/dilemma.
Can this idea be further generalized? Minorities can be oppressed or powerful; strive to so intertwine motivations that minorities are eliminated.
But with some caveats. http://akkartik.name/blog/2010-01-23-21-24-35-soc
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#15what's happening with HN?
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#16What happened to Hawaii?
Part of Coronado.
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#17It looks like Washington State and Alaska are merged. That makes little sense politically or organizationally. Where's Hawaii fit into this? Assuming 50 reapportioned states that's 6 million per state, and Hawaii only has 1.3 million people.
Rio Grande State should go north with the Rio Grande and not include Arizona. That is, it should be El Paso/Las Cruces/Albuquerque/Santa Fe and up into southern Colorado. As it is, it looks like ABQ would be a border city, and that makes little sense.
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#18Original: http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/reform/ Close-up of NYC area: http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/reform/nyc/ This was probably carved out by hand. However, this would be an interesting problem to solve using integer programming, a technique that has been used to model the related problem of gerrymandering.
For some reason I find it hilarious that on the new map Staten Island is part of Jersey..
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#19The state of Willamette would be the place to live. Nice weather, mountains, desert, ocean ... Linus.
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#20Original: http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/reform/ Close-up of NYC area: http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/reform/nyc/ This was probably carved out by hand. However, this would be an interesting problem to solve using integer programming, a technique that has been used to model the related problem of gerrymandering.
For some reason I find it hilarious that on the new map Staten Island is part of Jersey..
As a Brooklynite, the idea of being affiliated with Long Island rather than Manhattan fills me with horror.