Should've organized them alphabetically too
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Much better to organize it by water systems, with some additional divisions for the Mississippi system ans consolidation of smaller systems not seperated by mountain ranges.
Edit: (Image credit: Robert Szucs, Fejetlenfej/Imgur)
No wonder it's called the mighty Mississippi. It's huge!
Some choices were definitely made here.
Delaware.
Where?
Delagone
So the states get gradually smaller as you go north? Got it.
Yeah, I would have gone with straight lines, not these weird curved ones.
This somehow feels like a joke about map projections that would make its way into Futurama
That's really high praise, thanks! Made my day.
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Uh oh. Looks like someone messed with Texas.
I moved from Pennsylvania back home to Minnesota a decade ago. Didn't expect it to move back to me.
Gerrymanderers hate this one trick...
I see we've forgotten our non-contiguous siblings.
But more to the point, why not just arrange them alphabetically while we're here?
Ooo, I like this! Now I want to see a map where the area of each state is proportional to its population, but still fitting together in a recognizable way.
Since it’s not my country I vote for going diagonally
How about squiggles
I'm not sure which state is furthest from it's original position, but Indiana seems quite far from home.
Delaware is in the U.P.
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This hurts.
Arkansas straight up deleted from existence.
Edit: it’s west of Oklahoma!
Can't believe someone finally won the Toledo War. Really didn't expect it to be Rhode Island
tears up gambling ticket
We are just gonna give South Carolina the outer banks? No. Redraw these lines, pls thnx
South Carolina is Worst Carolina and they deserve nothing but the highway that runs through the state so people can get out quickly.
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Maine be like "You guys changed the map?"
I love this map. It breaks my brain in so many ways!
There are now two Kansas Cities in Ohio
[ANGRY PENNSYLVANIAN NOISES]
At first I was pissed thinking I don't want to live in Virginia or Maryland then I was like why the hell is Maryland south of Virginia?
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Georgia and Florida are already kind of like that, culturally speaking.
New Jersey moves to Minnesota. That...
Yeah that tracks.
I guess we're just moving New Orleans to Galveston, Biloxi can take over the old location, though personally it feels very threatening to have Mississippi move back to me!
This is delightful chaotic organization.
I'm not sure what giving NJ a giant flaccid water dong that just barely enters Virginia is supposed to symbolize, but I'm here for it.
I think.
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Made New York even richer and more influential, while nerfing most of the competition.
texas could honestly be a bit smaller. other states could make better use of that space
Ain't no way south Dakota is that far left
I like this - it puts the Midwest where I assumed it was, before finding out that it's actually where I would want to call the 'Mideast'.
The idea that Connecticut shares a border with Alabama and SC is fundamentally cursed
NTY, I do not want to live where Ohio is.
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