@xkcd.com is an evil genius and we're going to be seeing this going around the internet and creating mischief for years to come. xkcd.com/2868/
Dec 15, 2023 at 16:19 UTC
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Montana still has its normal shape and position, so I can just label it and then mark the rest as "not Montana" or "definitely not Montana", right?
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Easy, that’s north Tennessee and south Tennessee
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Sorth Caroginia, Kennesucky, Ohidana, Nevutazona, Califoregon, Arkssouri, Mebraskowa, and North, South, Strange, and Charm Dakota.
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Vermont, New Hampshire, New Versionshire.
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The politics of Vermampshire are very idiosyncratic but they play a key role with their -2nd in the nation primary.
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😂😂😂
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But only one California? Where is the justice?
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If you can't label all 60 states are you even an... uh, hold on.
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cant wait to visit false tennessee
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Sure. We've got Slimdiana, Moregon, and Coloradon't
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Pretty sure I was born in Middiana..
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So glad the State of Jefferson is represented.
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63?
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I'm in chaotic neutral Colorado
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My state seems misplaced….
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I've been in the mapping business for 40 years. It makes my brain hurt.
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Northwest Virginolina is my favorite
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- Indiana
- Outdiana
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Even the ones that are not real.
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Yes I can.
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The world did not need more Dakotas.
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Innerdiana, Outerdiana
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Here you thought two Dakotas was excessive
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Indiana and Twindiana
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Oregon, Boregon and Snoregon
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I count 64 states, the perfect number! Now to get back to naming them all...
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I can name all
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The important thing is that it's not asking us to *correctly* label them
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East NH is basically Masshole Lite.
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What are all those extra states?
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I have a friend who lives in Verhampshire, and I bet she nails it!
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I'm like why is this funny I can totally do this - Washington, Oregon, oh.
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The diabolical part is that my mind can't decide if there are the correct number of gulf coast states or not. Are there too many? Too few? We'll never know.
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Umm. You people know that maps f*cked up right? As if they need a bigger challenge
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Map is not correct.
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Is Bloomington in W. Indiana or E. Indiana?
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Having both North Jesusland and South Jesusland has always seemed weird to me
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There's no state between Vermont and New Hampshire, it's a dmz from their bloody war
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Someone please put porn preferences in ALL these states
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Hey anybody clarahudson091@gmail.com hit me up on Google chat anyone and let's have a nice chat together
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CHUDs in southern Oregon and northern California do want to break off a square, they want to call it the state of Jefferson because racism
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both the other us map xkcds are classics tooxkcd.com/1653/ xkcd.com/2394/
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I'm interviewing for a job in Dubraska later this month.
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You can't F' with MN --its shape just doesn't allow it
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"Indiana" is a crappy name for a state, so it should be renamed.
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I would plug for one of the Tennessees to be named for Andrew Johnson.
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The state between New Hampshire & Vermont should be named Connecticut, because it's clearly built around the Connecticut River.
This creates the need to rename what is currently Connecticut.
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There are an unreasonable number of Tennessees in this image.
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New GOP electoral vote map just dropped
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So we don't have those extra states? It's still just 50?
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I'm excited to visit New New Mexico!
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This took me entirely too long to figure out. I feel like a failure of a North Colorado native.
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We really needed a 3rd Dakota.
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Not many people can get all 64
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West Colorado is better than East Colorado.
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We got North Dakota, South Dakota, east Dakota, Dakota Center, Left Dakota, West Dakota and, Upper and Lower Dakotas(one state). But I always mix them up on the map
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Indianho
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I am totally going to troll my AP gov class with this on their midterm 😝
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Nobody wants to live in Extra Indiana
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Double Arkansas 😆
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- Old Hampshire and New Hampshire
- North Carolina, Middle Carolina, and South Carolina
- Tennessee and Elevennessee
- Arkansas and Aroklahoma
- Indiana and Pakistanna
- North Dakota, Middle Dakota, and South Dakota
- Wyoming and Zeeyoming
- Oregon and Orefound
- New Mexico and Newer Mexico
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It's hard to tell if the UP finally got to become its own state here, but Michiganders will have the good news/bad news of not bordering Ohio BUT seeing Indiana doubled.
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My favorite part is seeing Old Hampshire right there near Vermont and New Hampshire.
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Northsouth East Carolina, Old New Mexico, New New Mexico, East New Jersey...
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Fake news at it’s peak
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Everyone knows about Missourkansas and Tennessucky, man! We know our geography.
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That sound you’re not hearing is the silent scream building up behind my eyes as I stare at this map.
(At least my state is hard to duplicate. I’m fine! I’m…fine.)
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Damn, I can only name 52…
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someone absolutely needs to make the red & blue "Trump 2016 electoral map" version of this and distribute it by the thousands at his rallies ... or the 2020 version showing how he wuz robbed.
hundred bucks says he'll get hold of a copy and hold it up to a camera ...
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If you squint even harder, you'll see even more states!
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Arkansas and Arnotkansas
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This has serious consequences for the two cities known as Kansas City.
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How many Colorados does a nation really need?
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I'm glad they included north Nebraska and East New Hampshire on this
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I would like to know what the likely nightmare politics of Kuntennessee would be.
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It's on my bucket list to make it to Northeast Dakota.
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"Even with a blank map, a lot of people can only name 45-50 of the 64 states." LMAO!
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Ah Old Hampshmont
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Middle Dakota is obvious; Elevennessee, Coloradont, Howoming, and Intriana are my proposed names for some of the others
But that still leaves a good half-dozen states unlabeled
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You've heard of Mobile, Alabama, now get ready for Mobile-Utah
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It's been too long since I visited Northbraska.
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I see like 9 Dakotas.
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Still just one Florida!
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Central Carolina, right?
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Nice to see Old Hampshire back in there, after so many years with only New Hampshire.
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It's already part of next semester's syllabus.
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@edsbs.bsky.social
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The West Coast upsets me
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I'm seeing double- 4 Nebraskas!
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As always, half the glory of an XKCD is in the alt text.
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I unintentionally drove my friends CRAZY because I posted without looking. I thought it would be a cheery time waster on a Friday afternoon but OH NO. 34 comments later on my Facebook post....
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Washington, Oregon….oh *hell* no. I’m done.
Wait…Which one is Tennessee II?
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What's the problem?
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OW MY BRAIN
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I managed to make it all the way through elementary, high school, and graduate from college without ever once having a geography class. It was always my worst category in Trivial Pursuit. Also, am Trivial Pursuit years old.
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Non-US person here. Why have some states got holes in them?
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Pretty easy, but I do mix up Arkansas (pronounced Ark-in-saw) and Arkansas (pronounced Ar-can-sys).
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The clues are easy to find if you know where to look…
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New new Mexico is beautiful
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Newbraska mentioned!
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We got North, Mid, and South Carolina now 🤣
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Very evil
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I can name every state on the East and West Coasts; Texas, Hawaii and Alaska because everybody knows what THEY look like; and the Dakotas and Minnesota b/c my Dad's side of the family is from there. The rest is...TRUMP JESUSLAND, & that it's still there gives me nightmares...!
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Did you hear MIMAAL had leg lengthening surgery?
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I was informed by a meme that all the extra states are named "Ohio" and always have been.
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I am absolutely printing this out for my kids.
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West Dakota
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It dares to ask the question "how many Dakotas does a country REALLY need?"
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We need to make sure ChatGPT and Google Brad and X-Twitter Gronk and Bing Whatever-it-is all get trained on finding maps from popular parts of the internet.
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I still can't find Plainsylvania.
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All the 'extra' states are proxies for their neighbors, useful in superhero comics. If you can make up Middle Eastern, Asian, etc., nations as proxies for real nations, why not states?
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<Michigan likes this>
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lol
as someone that has road tripped cross-county multiple times, this is hilarious in how it understands the despair of will this ever end when traveling on a west-east/south-north trajectory.
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Oh my goodness!! 😂😂
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I love that there is now an Upper Oregon and a Lower Oregon. At least that is what I am going with.
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MIMAL just got taller
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So is it Utah or 2tah, or Utah and Wtah, or Utah and Wtah (pronounce DoubleYou-Tah)?
Or do we have enough for all three?
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Who can post the funniest hand labelled version?
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oh, pacific northwest just did a land grab
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Is that South Iowa or North Missouri. I always get those mixed up.
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He's so so great.
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Obama could only name 57 states! 😀
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Finally, recognition for Mid-Dakota.
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Double New Mexico
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LORT. Are the 10 extra red or blue states, & do they also send senators & reps to DC…. b/c that’s gonna honk off at least DC & Puerto Rico
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That one below Oregon is Jefferson.
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Two Dakotas is already too many, three is right out.
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My fav is Nortouisiana
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Based on
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Challenge Accepted (entirely from memory)
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Eye-Womming
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Oh wow, it's 28 more Republican senators. At least now the filibuster won't matter.
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It's the Rocky Mountain states that get me. I love med-rare New Arixco.
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This is the country the liberals want.
/s
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I had forgotten all about South Virginia and North Tennessee.
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😅
It took me a second.
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West North Dakota!
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New New Mexico is one for sure
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Hilarious. I needed this thread today. Thanks, all.
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I mean the answer to the question is "yes, I can label all the states". They never asked about degree of accuracy.
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Let's see... Old Hampshire, Franklin, New Mexizona...
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I hear there’s an oil boom happening in West North Dakota.
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Looks like they mirrored and flipped the 603.
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West to east: Vermont, New Hampshire, New Vermont.
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Truly diabolical.
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I see they added the State of Jefferson. That will make a lot of western conservatives happy
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I not only know all the states, I know where the popular dance, the Tennessee Two-Step, comes from
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Few people know of the epic battles with the Dakotas over the naming of Eastern Montana.
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Rofllll
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This just gets weirder the longer you look at it, LOL.
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The two states on thew west coast between Washington and California are Oregon /ˈɔɹɡən/ and Oregon /ˈɔɹɪɡɑn/.
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New Mexico and Newer Mexico
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Brutal.
I did at least get Freedonia right.
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Given where the extra 13 states are located it's a Republican wet dream. They need the electoral votes because they lose the popular vote and those extra states are all in rural GOP areas.
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I tried
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This has me in stitches. It initially looks so familiar and the goes horribly horribly wrong the more you look at it!
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im from new new hampshire
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This will now polute Generative AI models. In years to come geographers will search for pre-XKCD maps the way nuclear physicists hunt for low background steel.
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This is some Gilead dystopia: the State of Jefferson is right there.
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Why is there a Kansas and an Arkansas but they don't even have the decency to be neighbors?
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I am simultaneously amused and enraged whenever I look at this map
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Mid-Carolina? Definitely mid.
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Ah, yes, reminds me of the time when I was a kid and my family drove from Portland to San Francisco passing through three states...
Wait...
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This is a trick question. There are only three states in America: Fascist, Less Fascist But Still Awful, and Seemingly OK But Probably On Their Way
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That's messed up
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fuck, this had me going until I got to Too Many Carolinas
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Yes. All 64 of them.
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Douglas, squeezed between Maryland and Virginia, is small but mighty! And has two senators and one rep!
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Ecotopia is the one between Oregon and California, yeah?
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Some middle school student is going to have a ROUGH night before a "all states quiz" because of this.
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i’ll do it
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That's fucked up.
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Even in this nightmare scenario, Wisconsin does not get the upper peninsula back
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Sure I can label all the states. I'll start just as soon as you show me a map of the United States instead of whatever faux geography this is.
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I did my best...
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This is great. It took me more seconds than I’m willing to admit to see what he did
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Washington 2.0. Montanacita. Becauseoming. Middle Dakota. Emergency Backup Tennessee. Kentucky-final-FINAL.docx...
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Really impressive how it is both hilarious and plausible at the same time.
Real genius here!
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If they labels don't have to be correct, then sure. Not because I don't know the correct answer - but because I think "A Dakota", "Other Dakota", and "South Jersey" for Florida are better names.
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I don’t see what’s wrong. You’ve got North Carolina, Central Carolina, South Carolina,…
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I rather like Mirror Mirror New Mexico, where Walter White doesn’t have a beard
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Space for both ORE-uh-g'n and or-eh-GAHN.
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Stillishington
Moregon
Contiguousado
Wynotoming
Brand New Mexico
Newtah
Newbraska
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I refuse to live in a world with four goddamn dakotas.
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"...the carte diabolique, which depicts the 14 forbidden states."</lookaroundyou>
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My favorite state js Utaho.
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Twindiana
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Is it North South Carolina or South North Carolina? I always forget when it comes to that region.
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Do I get to make up names for the extra states?
I'm kinda partial to Pennsyltucky.
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Alt text
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Yes. Yes I can.
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Hooray! Texas has potentially moved up from the bottom 50th.
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Small Louisiana and Wyutah 😍
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