Anyone care to explain to European noob what this means?
It’s mostly a shitpost, but the US was originally only the East coast. Over time, the states spread more and more west, so it’s saying that all these “new” states are basically a delusion.
Originally the US expanded quite slowly, due to difficulties in travel and surveying. States were small and communities were close together, about as far apart as a person could walk in a day. At the end of the 1700s, it was only about as big as the blue area in the post above. But in the 1800s, after the Louisiana Purchase, we began to very aggressively expand westward. The construction of the Intercontinental Railroad helped immensely, and towns were being built almost faster than they could name them. The government began giving away land for cheap or sometimes free for anyone who could develop it. Native Americans were forced off their land and onto reservations. State borders became straight lines encompassing vast areas.
That’s also very interesting in light of the US superficially appearing to be strongly federal in nature (with the individual states enjoying a great deal of autonomy) - a structure which would historically be known to develop in a bottom-up manner, where preexisting smaller entities would federate to form a larger state. This history is telling very different story, where those entities were not actually preexisting, but invented by the central authority 😂
The original thirteen colonies worked exactly like that. From then on, it went something like “Hey, federal government, we want to be a state. We’ll follow all your rules, pinky promise.” “Aight.”
There seems to be a mistake with this map, Minnesota is a Canadian province
I wish!
Is it too late to get a refund for the Louisiana Purchase?
We bought it for pennies. Imagine the ROI.
What I wouldn’t give for my state to be part of France rather than this US bullshit.
Teuxaseé
Illinois et Arquensas
I second the motion of making the Louisiana Refund real.
Sacrebleu!
Colorado: Real US
Rest of the states: Mental illness
It’s sooooo dry, CO kinda sucks even though I really want to like it 😓
Pro Tip: Pour water on yourself to become wet
California gave me a machine to automatically do that when I reach for non-vegetarian products in the store.
True. Also how is Florida not mental illness? SMH my head.
Bc it’s so far past that it has become its own thing. Like there’s “mental illness”, and then there’s “Florida”!:-P
Despite the fact that I have family in florida, I would definitely swap florida and California status, least Cali does something good for the country with their tech innovation and privacy laws. I can’t recall the last time Florida did something good
Florida will be part of the sea in the near future. You don’t have to worry about them for much longer.
The moon landing launched from there., and that’s about all I’m willing to give them.
Miami Vice was pretty good though.
As a Californian I can say thats probably the least we give since we have a shit tonne of different industries within the state. Reminder we are the fourth largest economy in the world.
Wow are we really that high now? Last I knew we were like the eighth. Either way that’s still wild to me how high were are.
What’s a Fllorida
shaking my head my head?
🎶my head my back …🎶
👯♀️ my neck my back …👯♀️
Smh my head yes
NY, Florida, Texas, California are the only states, the rest is Ohio
99% of the State of New York is nothing. NYC and Philadelphia belong in NJ, they each have a lot more in common with Jersey than they do their respective states.
New Jersey isn’t real, it’s just a suburb of NYC and Philly.
if your state has a natural border, it’s real. otherwise it’s a prank. Which square state are you from, the one shaped like a square or the one shaped like a rectangle. get real motherfuckers
And to think Africans complain about their rectangle borders, Americans are just fine!
typical yank, africans don’t complain about rectangle borders, they complain about straight lines.
your face is a straight line
I’m Canadian, this makes so much sense and why you guys have 50
I’m not murcan
As someone who just moved from the west into “the REAL US” … this shit is old and broken and slow as fuck and everyone just accepts it like it’s supposed to be that way.
Because it’s either that, or they pay taxes. They made their own bed.
Taxes are SO high in Pennsylvania it’s crazy. I just need sidewalks, honestly.
A yes, the eternal september of 1806
Sooner or later Florida won’t be a state anymore.
The great Florida reef?
That’s clever those buildings could potentially become home for the future fishes for sure. https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-cities-that-could-go-underwater-sea-level-rise-1996760
Ah but obviously tourism would spike to see to see the lost city of
AtlantisFlorida
The line is so…vertical. Incorrect but funny.
Alternative States of Dumbfuckistan
Florida just shouldn’t exist and I’d probably move California over to the other side. But on the whole I think this pic is passable.
Northeast + West Coast and Everywhere Else.
Tiny alaska tiny alaska
Texas can’t be upstaged
It’s all turtle island as far as I am concerned
Mentall
Nevada exists but only for Fallout new vegas
