HAH!
(fuck you, Discourse)
I think they’re Southwestern states.
Well, see, on our map of the USofA, they’re both in boxes just west of Cabo…
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Back on topic, if I must, I’ve lived in Michigan and Wisconsin… surrounded by states with the same Midwestern culture (or lack thereof, if you count fried cheese curds).
But I think we might have to redraw these Midwest/East/South borders not along state lines, but between cities. For instance, the southern tip of Indiana (like Evansville) is much more like Kentucky.
The prickly pear cactus grows naturally in Missouri. Specifically the Eastern Prickly Pear (Opuntia humifusa (formerly O. compressa).
Edit: Apparently it grows all over the eastern US, including Massachusetts.
My mother is also left-handed, and from a generation where that was “corrected” in school.
I’d argue that Texas is large enough that if you looked at it county by county, the eastern ~1/3rd are totally South (AKA southeast). The western 1/3rd are totally Southwest. And the more populated and wealthy part down the I-35 corridor is a mishmash of the two.
I was kind of gobsmacked to find out that Key Maps is still in business. I know that there’s probably a decent market for municipal governments who still need to be able to navigate when phone networks may not be working, but I wouldn’t imagine that’s enough to keep the company in business.
Of course. It’s just a huge dick, just hanging there all limp.
Key Maps reminds me of Thomas Guide, ubiquitous in every car in Portland, OR and San Jose, CA (the metro areas I grew up and started to drive in).
As much as modern navigation apps are useful, I prefer are wider, top-down view. I slays know which way north is, and I can always find my way back to a place I’ve been before, and an actual map so that.
And the north is like the great plains, with a strong influence on Fort Worth in the mishmash.
I remember those too!
If young-person-on-the-street interviews are to be believed, Japanese youngsters can’t find their next door neighbors without their smartphone, let alone the neighboring province.
I grew up as a Mormon in Utah in the 60s and 70s and we saw Utah, southeastern Idaho, southwestern Wyoming. Northern Arizona and eastern Nevada as our group, the Mormon Corridor, aka the Jello Belt, and historically the area settled by Mormons in the mid to late nineteenth century.
My sister, now retired, was a geography college professor at a large state university. Before that she worked at the National Geographic Society. One thing she liked to do for freshman students on the first day of class was to have them draw the lower 48 states on a blank sheet of paper from memory. She said some of the results were laughable.
I’m sure.
Heck, if you gave any adult including us smartest and formerly hippest folks, an outline of the lower 48 and asked us to fill in the state borders I bet it’d be pretty awful too.
That exercise would be quite interesting! It actually might be fun.
I’d do a pretty pathetic job I’m sure.
We just have too many states.
Here you (we) go …
Too funny. I actually tried it. Drawing on my phone, no less. So I couldn’t go back to erase and redraw as the states filled in. I would’ve done better, albeit marginally, with pencil and paper. On the phone I could only erase the previous lines that I drew, sequentially. E.g., if I was 37 lines into my drawing and needed to correct line 5, I would’ve had to erase the previous 32 lines. Which I did not do. Another example, I errantly swapped Indiana and Ohio: my IN is to the east of OH when it should be the other way around. I realized this about 25 lines later and I did not correct it, but with pencil and eraser I would’ve corrected that.
Anyway, I took one stab at this and will post the result shortly. I have to post to imgur, get the URL, etc…
Did you try it?
Here you go @LSLGuy . Actually I don’t think this is half bad. It was a fun exercise. I’m proud to have gotten the UP of MI; and also the four corners but I live in the west so I should get that. My TX eastern part of the state got truncated; it should have extended farther east. My LA is too wide.
My ND is too tall. East of MO should be AR, I realize that now but as I was drawing I got lost in that area. And I forget what is north of AR. My KY looks terrible, apologies to the Blue Grass staters here. My MN and WI look terrible too.
My UT is too tall.
Here is my result and I haven’t yet looked at a map. I’ll look at a map right after posting this.
I counted my states and I think I got 48 there! Or close anyway.
My MA, VT, and NH has an error that shouldn’t be there but without pencil and eraser I couldn’t correct it: VT and NH sit atop MA, I know that, and MA sits atop CT and RI, which in turn sit atop Long Island Sound — my drawing has an errant eadt-west line above MA that should not be there.
Anyway, there it is.
This actually was a bit of fun. Thanks! I’ll go look at a CONUS map now to see more about my many errors.
After looking at a CONUS map, note to self — remember the Mississippi River and which states it ‘anchors’. Remembering the states whose borders are defined by the Mississippi would’ve helped. From north to south they are:
MN and WI
IA, MO and IL
AR, and KY and TN, and
LA and MS