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[–] 76 points 2 years ago

Least gerrymandered election

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  • [–] 60 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    Whoever made this underestimates the shore of a Great Lake, I see. Ohio and Michigan already have beaches.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    No salt and no sharks, and all the beachy goodness.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    After this map, Ohio no longer has a Great Lake Beach.
    They’ll just be left with a salty proboscis through Mary’s West Virginia.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Minnesota and Wisconsin too. And with the Eerie canal, they all have access to the ocean

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    If we're just gonna start counting whether or not our waterways have access to the ocean, then pretty much every Midwestern state counts by way of the Mississippi's drainage basin. 32 states have tributary rivers that find their way to the Mississippi, and then to the Gulf.

    Incidentally, I love the detail in this map where the state of Mississippi no longer touches the Mississippi River, and the city of New Orleans is apparently divided across the states of Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, and Arkansas.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And no shot Chicago is moving into Wisconsin without a civil war first.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    Yeah, Chicago here. Fuck the ocean, give me back my lakeshore.

    Edit: actually, if I'm still physically in Chicago, I guess it doesn't matter overly much whether it's Chicago, IL or Chicago, WI, though I think Illinois needs us more, from a political perspective.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm fine with this as long as the little strip is referred to as the state's tentacle

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    You can now drive through Minnesota for an entire day and not leave.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Grand Portage, MN to Brookings, OR is 35 hrs on the fastest route and 37hrs on the route closest to the map.

    That would be three long days of driving for someone not cannonballing it.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    Great, now everyone has more beach than poor NH

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Washington state is like helpppppp

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Not sure the folks in Bellingham are going to be too keen on joining North Dakota. Lynden might be cool with it though. Idaho claiming Spokane would be a hilarious (and tragic) turnabout. Would Okanogan even notice becoming part of Montana? The state capitol stays at least, but losing the Seattle metro region would be a major blow to the economy. Looks like Vancouver is now Washington's largest city... And it's just a subset of another state's metro region!

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    United States

    *offer not valid in Hawaii and Alaska.

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oklahoma is now very jealous of North Dakota having a longer “finger”

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Long Island is gone.

    Not complaining though.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Lol. Ohio trades 300 miles of shoreline and multiple islands along lake erie (to michigan of all people) so it can drive way the hell over to a crowded jersey beach. No thank you.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago*

    The IT wire management guys would have neatly routed the western states into a single oceanic backhaul access corridor.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    What about Alaska and Hawaii, don't they get to touch the ocean? /s

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    I think Minnesota has the longest drive to it's beach. Anyone see a longer drive?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This would be pretty cool. But would it have unintended negative consequences?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Ah yes the United States of Bosnia

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This is somewhat stressful to look at

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