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[schmiss]

Thought experiment

What states might look like if, as with Congressional districts, their borders were periodically redrawn to reflect population changes.

Comments

[escherichiacola]

I'd like to welcome the the Honorable Senator of WOO! PACKERS!

[chibirhm]

BAHAHAHAHAH SO TRUE.

[spleener]

I'm suddenly reminded of the MST3K episode where they were watching a movie that took place in Wisconsin so every time there was a crowd/mob scene they would shout "PACKERS!"

Cheeseheads: the awful truth

[escherichiacola]

PACKERS WON THE SUPERBOWL! WOO!

[happythree]

lol Chicagoland

[homasse]

Yeah, Atlanta needs to be its own state. It's already the little spot of blue in a sea of red.

[roseofjuly]

Only problem with that is it'd be bordered by red states on all sides.

[ninasafiri]

thiiiiiiiis! But smaller, it incorporates entirely too much of North GA. :/

[stardust9121]

Yeah, these changes wouldn't affect me so much considering I *already* tend to tell people "I'm from Atlanta" rather than "I'm from Georgia."

...Not sure why so much of north Georgia is in there, though.

[sasha_davidovna]

I'm good with High Plains, but I think they stuck too closely to existing boundaries in some areas. The one that jumps out at me, since it's the part of the country that I'm second most familiar with, is the Pac Northwest. I feel like coastal Washington, Oregon, and California have more in common with each other than most of the eastern parts of all three states and would have done something more like Joel Garreau's Ecotopia.

[reticent_lass]

Oh god yes. In California, the Mojave lump encloses several major liberal college towns on the coast. Bakersfield, etc. are, like, entirely different planets from Santa Barbara and Carmel.

Inland: it's a very, very different ballgame out there.

[deja_vu822]

Well, where my home is and where I go to school would become two different states, and that's a no thank you because I don't wanna pay out of state tuition. Although, sure, Philadelphia might as well be it's own state.

[the_laugh]

As a Philadelphian, I agree.