We’ve been ignoring the Dakotas for too long, they are spreading at an alarming rate!
this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2023
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Incest often doesn't provide viable offspring though.
Tell that to the British royal line
Any royal line for that matter
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This is cursed.
I only looked at this for ten seconds and I forgot how the real map looks.
As someone from Europe it looks fine to me.
That's an awful lot of Dakotas. Also, Ohio really ought to be renamed Ohno.
And no Howoming, Whatoming, Wheroming, or Whooming, missed opportunities.
What really gets me is how you swapped Alabama and Mississippi just for kicks.
This map freaks me out and I don't know why.
Because everything you know is wrong, nothing is real, nothing matters, have a panic attack, you deserve it!
Did I have a stroke?
Yse
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It took me way too long to realize he added States not just mislabeled them.
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ok but where’s MASHINGTON
West of Wontanna
Ok, I don't get it.
A recent XKCD was just the blank map with ~64 "states" and the direction to try and name them all.
I have an inkling that the two Arkansas are pronounced differently. "Are-Kansas" and "Are-Can-Saw".
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Fun fact, there are no US states that start with A.
The closest is Arkansas which starts with an "A". Which is pronounced similar to an "A".
Some ChatGPT fun facts
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Kansas, Akansas, Arkansas was clever my guy. How would you pronounce Akansas tho? A-kansahh? Akansahh? A-Kansas? Akansas? Ahkansas? Ah-kansahh?
I see Kansas, but where's Kan'tsas?
Is this what having an aneurysm feels like?
Should be Kansas, Arkansas, and Cokansas.
It just occurred to me that there are no states named East Statename.
English settlers arrived in the east. So wherever they were when they named an area, that was the original, and as they spread west, north or south, they had to add those directions to keep them distinct.
That's because the expansion of the US across the continent was westward.
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Serious answer: we started at the eastern seaboard and expanded west. "East Statename" implies eastern expansion.
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I think you forgot that Wyoming isn't real
It's just a fancy name for "Dakota[citation needed]".
This makes my brain hurt
I did a couple of cartography classes in college and I can say this is 100% correct.
How would you like them labeled? They already have the names.
Columbia should be Jefferson. Alternatively Columbia could be Oregon, then Oregon becomes Columbia. Cascadia would also be appropriate for either.
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America's waistline grew a little it seems after thanksgiving
Central Dakota...
I have to say I prefer New Mexico A and New Mexico B. It's poetic justice, as the Eastern border of New Mexico was drawn by a drunken surveyor from TX, so we're just getting back what was ours. Take a look at the map, and the history, strange, but true. Also Tennessee and Elevenessee are made for each other.
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Why are there so many Mexicos?? The Mexicos are multiplying, you guys. We're about to be overrun.
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