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The state of Willamette would be the place to live. Nice weather, mountains, desert, ocean ... Linus.
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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.
It 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 i…
Though maybe it'd make more sense to just grant Hawaii independence and sell Alaska back to the Russians or something--the whole noncontiguous territory never sat well with me anyway.
My only complaint is that they still left the UP as part of Michigan... it would look much cleaner to throw that into another piece. If you ever wondered why it became part of Michigan read up on the "War of Toledo" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War
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As a Brooklynite, the idea of being affiliated with Long Island rather than Manhattan fills me with horror.
On the other hand, as a resident of Michigan, there are no words, in any language on Earth, that could begin to capture the joy I feel at the idea of excising Detroit (though I fear it may have already metastasized).
It 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 i…
My only complaint is that they still left the UP as part of Michigan... it would look much cleaner to throw that into another piece. If you ever wondered why it became part of Michigan read up on the "War of Toledo" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War
Having Chesapeake split by Baltimore-Washington is unfortunate too.
The state of Willamette would be the place to live. Nice weather, mountains, desert, ocean ... Linus.
I don't like crowded places. So when I go visit the U.S.A, the best places to stay for me are the Great Basin, High Plains, and Rocky Mountain High.
It 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 i…
Hawaii is problematic, being a significant fraction of the target population level, yet very isolated. Alaska doesn't really make sense to combine with anything either, but its population is pretty much rounding error (it's got, what, as many people as maybe three blocks of Manhattan?) so it probably wouldn't matter that much. Though maybe it'd make more sense to just grant Hawaii independence and sell Alaska back to…
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Hawaii is problematic, being a significant fraction of the target population level, yet very isolated. Alaska doesn't really make sense to combine with anything either, but its population is pretty much rounding error (it's got, what, as many people as maybe three blocks of Manhattan?) so it probably wouldn't matter that much. Though maybe it'd make more sense to just grant Hawaii independence and sell Alaska back to…
Wouldn't it make more sense to sell it to the Canadians if contiguous territory was a big issue?