Flower petal distribution.

Like a voronoi grid with limited colors, each color a state. Every state would have a bit of everything.

If Dr Suess was in charge of naming the states:

Fixed.

Now I want to see this cross referenced to a population map and overlay major cities and show us the population of each new state and what cities would be in each.

this unironically looks like how some colonies used ro be divvied up. fitting for a colonial empire.

As a resident of Floxus, I propose we make the creeping phlox our state flower.

(It smells like rotting skunk.)

Americans are so dumb when it comes to timezones we could just assign Maintana to GMT+5, Washconsin GMT+6 and so on downwards. It wouldn’t make any difference to them and it’d be a lot more fun for the rest of us.

True story: “The meeting is at 1500 EDT”. “Your state is currently on EST so if I turn up at the specified time I’ll be an hour late. Are you sure it’s 1500 EDT and not 1500 EST?” “Yes, definitely 1500 EDT”. /me turns up at 1500 EDT to find the meeting has already finished.

I misread IDOTA as IDIOTA.

Which sports team am I supposed to root for with this map? Do you expect me to make a careful analysis of team history and current lineup? Or do I pick the one in the state I was born in like a normal person?

What’s the timezone in Missorado and also historians will debate if that was eldorado just so you know.

Utucky

No u.

I feel like idiota would be overcrowded

There’s precedence in Connecticut history

https://medium.com/@andyvillanueva_maps/long-long-connecticut-a6e014c52261

Alascanada?

Hawacuba?

Floxas made me lol

I like how the map shows the curvature of the north border (49th parallel), meaning all these lines bulge north in the middle.