When old historic maps overlap with modern political maps
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#2In a way it would be surprising if we didn't see trends like this.
Reminds me of this quote:
Everything is what it is because it got that way. - D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, On Growth and Form
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#3Great... Now do the Middle East. That one should be fun.
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#4That's really cool.
I take exception with it being regarded as a pet-peeve. I think people who are broadly similar should be effectively represented, and sometimes that means having a seperate government.
To make the point clear (but not to say anything specific about socio-economics): it is fairer for socialists to have a socialist government, and hardcore capitalists to have a capitalist government- and not have to end up fighting constantly.
So, I'm happy that the people pictured are able to be represented independent of each other.
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#5In the end, culture and values change surprisingly slowly.
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#6The work is just awesome. i'm not a fan of twitter, but i just subscribed.
It's very interesting to see with evidence that history even centurys old weights a lot. Having the feeling it does is one thing, seing proof is another.
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#7Peeve: To cause to be annoyed or resentful. synonym: annoy.
These are not pet peeves at all, they are the persons pet loves. All examples are a type of "look at this great example, designed not to annoy or cause resentment at all, just the opposite! Aren't they cool and amazing?"
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#8You can see this more locally in the US with places that had redlining.
> Research published in September 2020 overlaid maps of the highly affected COVID-19 areas with the HOLC maps, showing that those areas marked “risky” to lenders because they contained minority residents were the same neighborhoods most ravaged by COVID-19.
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#9In the end, culture and values change surprisingly slowly.
True, but they do change; if e.g. an empire hangs around for long enough, the original culture will be lost or assimilated. See for example Christianity throughout Europe, plenty of examples of erased or merged cultures to the point where nobody knows what happened before. Or the lasting influence of colonization throughout the world. Or the change of culture and language that the US has throughout the Hollywood media-consuming world; listen to random people in western Europe and count how many Anglicisms they use in their native language.
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#10I thought that "political maps" simply meant sovereign state borders (as it does in Czech, German, and possibly other languages as well), and that this would be about unchanging borders. For example Bohemia has had some pretty stable natural borders. But in this case "political map" means a map of election results? Is that a common usage in English?