As someone of the earth sciences it is my opinion that whoever drew this has exactly zero understanding of “natural geographic borders”.
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.
Eh!!??!! Stay on your side of the 49th parallel!!
State borders if we sliced through major population centers
I guess it worked for Kansas City, right? Be prepared for NYC NY, vs NYC CT
Philly? In New Jersey? Are you trying to start riots??
Asking the Colonial powers to not make weirdly straight unnatural borders is like asking Russia to stop invading occupying it’s neighbours land