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As someone of the earth sciences it is my opinion that whoever drew this has exactly zero understanding of “natural geographic borders”.

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Right??? This map changes borders that are already based on rivers and natural geographical features.

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29 points

Can you draw us a better map then?

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Nobody got time for that. But yeah this map seems to be more or less randomly generated, it messes with a lot of borders that are already geographically defined. Seems like they just made everything into an irregular shape and assumed people wouldn’t look too closely.

US states were in large part created to reflect natural geographic divisions already. They were frequently drawn up on maps before having any significant population centers, so geographical boundaries were the primary focus. A secondary focus being equality, so not making any state too big or small relative to its neighbors.

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23 points

Maps! Bring us the maps!

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23 points

I know a couple of guys that can help.

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Thank you, this makes me happy

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The fact that the Mississippi River isn’t being used as a border anymore in some states bother me. But I’d love to see your take.

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New Jersey is glaringly bad

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Looking at Long Island, I find it interesting that they chose the Hudson River as a natural boundary but apparently Long Island Sound is no big deal

I can’t figure out what Rhode Island’s border is meant to be but it apparently doesn’t include Rhode Island

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100% agree. As an Oregonian, that border on the Willamette made me wanna cry. Literally no consideration of nature or people with that boundary, and yet it’s called a “natural border”.

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24 points

Eh!!??!! Stay on your side of the 49th parallel!!

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Yeah, I see Washington and Montana there. Fuck off with your 54-40 bullshit.

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15 points

State borders if we sliced through major population centers

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I guess it worked for Kansas City, right? Be prepared for NYC NY, vs NYC CT

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I get why rivers and creeks and streams were historically convenient borders, but when we started building cities along them it got weird. Then some mf’er invented the bridge and it all went to hell.

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14 points

Philly? In New Jersey? Are you trying to start riots??

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Deleware River that is as wide as a 33+ lane highway is not a natural border? Wacky.

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Mine now. We’ll combine it with Atlantic City and make Gotham which will somehow take up like the entire south part of the state together.

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Asking the Colonial powers to not make weirdly straight unnatural borders is like asking Russia to stop invading occupying it’s neighbours land

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