Posted on 06/24/2014 5:54:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
We'll admit it: We're suckers for ways to reimagine the political boundaries of the United States.
Below, we have a four-decade-old attempt from California State University geography professor C. Etzel Pearcy.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Yeah, I’d be laughing harder except that “Bitterroot” is pretty accurate politically as well as geographically. Never heard of “Boise City”, though.
Mass and Rhode Island and Connecticut should be one state/
Alabama sure gets pwned in that map
It's weird how he has the new state line drawn through the eastern parts of eastern Washington and eastern Oregon instead of right down the Cascades, where it should be.
Then may I humbly ask why you wasted your time?
might be a good idea
There’s probably a basic element of popular support for many of the proposed changes; however, if you check into the article it seems the main motivation is better “redistribution” of resources focused on the central population centers… Many of the recent movements are driven by the taxpayers’ desire to have LESS taken out of their pockets, not send it to the Black Holes that are the big cities.
I did, and you are correct. In the case of my area those gravity wells aren’t particularly deep: Boise and Spokane at roughly 200,000 people each. I think I could live with that. New York, not so much.
I think the underlying idea is a waste of time, but I always like to hear the thoughts of intelligence and sophisticated Freepers. Why did you post twice to this thread?
Yay! We are rid of New York City.
I moved from Chicago to Indiana for a reason, and here I am back with Chicago in “Dearborn”? I don’t think so.
Maybe it’s for Fort Dearborn on the site of what eventually would be Chicago?
Fort Dearborn is in Chicago and Fort Wayne is in Detroit.
I grew up in deep Southern Illinois. When asked I always say I’m from around St. Louis or near Paducah...if I say Illinois everybody just takes it for granted that I’m from around Chicago.
I grew up outside St. Louis and I always say Southern Illinois too. I see a lot of use of that term there, probably to distinguish it from the rest of Illinois and probably because Southern Illinois is just different from the rest of the state.
New England should be one state. Delaware needs to be annexed to Maryland, as does DC and Northern VA. California coastal counties should be gifted to Mexico.
“I grew up outside St. Louis and I always say Southern Illinois too. I see a lot of use of that term there, probably to distinguish it from the rest of Illinois and probably because Southern Illinois is just different from the rest of the state.”
It is nearly time for ‘57’ states. Divide Illinois. And give one senator to each half.
And the rest of you can come up with the ‘divides’ for the other states needing ‘division’.
As for Kalifornia, a massive earthquake dropping everything from San Fran to LA into the Pacific. And at the same time doing the same thing to ‘Lower California’, a part of Mexico...no longer a border of California with Mexico. This must occur when all California Senators and Reps are home for a long weekend.
In Southern Illinois, even Democrat candidates for the legislature pledge to fight the Chicago politicians.
Oh great.
Now we need new quarters.
He put “Erie” in southwest Ohio?
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