Comments on: 3 Controversial Maps

By: sysmg

sysmg — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:46:53 +0000

@The Wheelman and @wapibangi: Living downstate and having family upstate I have heard both arguments (NYC sucking up upstate tax dollars and NYC providing more tax dollars than it receives). I am not sure which is correct. However, I am sure that our rising taxes (both upstate and downstate) are due to fiscal mismanagement in the NY state gov.

By: JP

JP — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:57:15 +0000

It needs some work, but I like the 38 state map. He really should have committed to making the Dakotas/Montana one state though to coincide with his population goals, and break up Texas a bit more.

Making smaller states out west would be great. If you have to do anything dealing with them or their county structure, you’d probably feel the same.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:38:19 +0000

I was in elementary school in 1973, and remember reading about the 38-state map in my Weekly Reader. The supposed purpose was to even out the size disparity among the states (though there are still some large size differences on the maps shown here). From the way it was presented (or at least to my eight-year-old mind), it sounded like reorganizing the states was a done deal, and would definitely happen in the next couple of years… just like our conversion to the metric system!

With a Congress that could barely agree on a debt ceiling deal, such a project — for better or for worse — is unimaginable today.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:26:42 +0000

I took a boat south recently and discovered a new continent. The indigenous people call it South America, but they are savages and ungodly, and thus don’t realize that I discovered this land. Other countries say that they have been there before, but since I’m more important than them, their knowledge is untrustworthy. I shall call this land New California!
Really people!?!? Norsemen, lcelanders, and other nomadic fishermen knew of this continent hundreds of years before our history books tell us, let alone the diverse Indian/Mayan/Asian peoples who ALREADY LIVED HERE!
Europe just thought that they were more important, and were more technologically advanced… So they changed the word INVADED to discovered.
Aren’t you proud of your ancestors?

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:45:34 +0000

Its no coincidence that this originally appeared on the day of my birth on your amazing site! This is right up my alley!!!

Also I wanted to share a great map of Thomas Jefferson’s original plan for the division of the land west of Appalachia, it was famously shot down and called “absurd” but like Pearcy had a lot of great ideas!

http://bigthink.com/ideas/21300

thanks!

By: Beth

Beth — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:03:42 +0000

Love the 38 state map, although it would be much easier to sell if it conformed to geographic boundaries (including, why the heck not, freeways and such) and had more straight lines.

By the way, Albuquerque is too small on the map. Our population is 545,000 as of the 2010 census (nearly a million in the metro area, and I agree with whoever said that MSAs would give a better picture than just cities).

New Mexicans wouldn’t be fond of being named after a part of Arizona, BTW. Especially since NM/AZ were originally the New Mexico Territory.

By: Michael D.

Michael D. — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:22:46 +0000

The 38 states are interesting but I think a better way to go is Rand McNally major trading areas which is similar to the old city-states idea.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:59:52 +0000

I see that Mackinac loses a big chunk of the UP but also regains Toledo. If not, the Toledo War would resume. ;)

Side note: I wonder how long it would take the rest of the country to pronounce Mackinac correctly…

By: Atilla the Fun

Atilla the Fun — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:32:11 +0000

China was certainly here before Columbus, regardless of the authenticity of that map.
Evidence also points to the Chinese reaching South America and East Africa before European explorers.
Read “1421: The Year China Discovered America” or go to Tanzania and see ancient Chinese artifacts in the national museum in Dar Es Salaam.

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