the united states of america

ALASKA - Aluetian Islands are frequently left off and misspelled.
ARKANSAS - Has two indentions: One in the northeast corner and one in the southwest.
DELAWARE - Is this really a state?
FLORIDA - That little part that juts up into Georgia a bit.
GEORGIA - See above
HAWAII - Oahu and three other little circles does not make a map of Hawaii.
IOWA - Has a sizable bulge on the eastern side.
MISSOURI - don't forget the boot heel!

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 12:47 (eleven years ago) Permalink

http://www.tremble.com/scribblins/images/us_of_ra.gif
http://www.tremble.com/scribblins/meet021027.html

― Electronic Bugaloo, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 13:03 (eleven years ago) Permalink

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/ElectoralCollege1956-Large.png/400px-ElectoralCollege1956-Large.png

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 13:16 (eleven years ago) Permalink

racist aunt OTM

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 13:19 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Man, some of those old electoral maps look strange in today's context.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 13:58 (eleven years ago) Permalink

MINNESOTA - That little tic of a state park that you can only get to via Canada.
NEVADA - Has six sides, not four.
NEW MEXICO - The panhandle down near El Paso.
NEW YORK - Long Island, surprisingly enough. It's like the Tasmania of the Empire State.
SOUTH DAKOTA - Not a perfect rectangle, thanks to the Missouri River.
WEST VIRGINIA - Wheeling is not in Ohio.
WISCONSIN - Does not have an upper peninsula.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 14:18 (eleven years ago) Permalink

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i... what is up with Tennessee

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 1 November 2018 02:50 (five months ago) Permalink

https://teachthecivilwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Screen-shot-2011-05-23-at-10.04.08-AM.png

would be my guess.

― oder doch?, Thursday, 1 November 2018 10:01 (five months ago) Permalink

whoa! wild

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 1 November 2018 15:17 (five months ago) Permalink

Perhaps, though in that case the east coast would be glowing much more as well. Maybe also Tennessee soil is just super good for digging + good amount of empty space

― Evan, Thursday, 1 November 2018 15:34 (five months ago) Permalink

no graveyards in minnesota because they send their dead on flaming barges down the mississippi

― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 November 2018 16:12 (five months ago) Permalink

ha, that actually seems to be the case in Louisiana. (Down a river, at least.)

― pplains, Thursday, 1 November 2018 16:16 (five months ago) Permalink

Or wait, I'm looking at the battlefields. NEVER MIND.

― pplains, Thursday, 1 November 2018 16:16 (five months ago) Permalink

https://i.imgur.com/BJT7VQI.jpg

― Karl Malone, Friday, 2 November 2018 15:19 (five months ago) Permalink

hahah short pump

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 2 November 2018 15:23 (five months ago) Permalink

ESSEX? The choice is Mianus in Connecticut. Great for cracking people up on car rides ("Be careful of skidding through Mianus, it's slippery").

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 November 2018 15:26 (five months ago) Permalink

https://i.imgur.com/2PsWyeX.jpg

― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Thursday, 15 November 2018 18:45 (five months ago) Permalink

uh surprisingly accurate:

https://d2svrcwl6l7hz1.cloudfront.net/content/B01MF8P00H/resources/0?mime=image/*

it's actually the front cover of a book: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01MF8P00H/

― F# A# (∞), Friday, 16 November 2018 16:21 (five months ago) Permalink

columbus got lost

― mookieproof, Friday, 16 November 2018 18:57 (five months ago) Permalink

"Be careful of skidding through Mianus, it's slippery"

"Mianus really needs to get plowed" is the appropriate reaction to this weather iirc

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 16 November 2018 19:07 (five months ago) Permalink

https://ddydc3qiky-flywheel.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/walmart-nation-1024x778.jpg

― sleeve, Sunday, 25 November 2018 17:41 (five months ago) Permalink

You can't get much more private than the Freemasons, can ya, Colorado?

― pplains, Sunday, 25 November 2018 19:33 (five months ago) Permalink

How are all those state university systems considered "private employers"?

― Brad C., Sunday, 25 November 2018 19:36 (five months ago) Permalink

I don't think this answers Brad's question, but

For the purposes of our analysis, we treated some state government employers like public universities as independent organizations, in keeping with how states frequently identify and compare company headcounts. Military bases were excluded from the list. In many cases, employee counts for the various colleges, laboratories, and medical centers falling under a single university system were combined. This was because these systems frequently attribute employees from the university and medical centers together. However, when a spokesperson from the medical centers or universities identified the organizations as distinct employers, they were counted separately.

― pplains, Sunday, 25 November 2018 22:18 (five months ago) Permalink

Because you'll also see this map pop up from time to time. Can't be both!

https://i.imgur.com/aFbCjzM.jpg

― pplains, Sunday, 25 November 2018 22:22 (five months ago) Permalink

wankers corner isn't a "town", it's an intersection in wilsonville

i'm very glad to learn that i work for oregon's equivalent of wal-mart though

― dub pilates (rushomancy), Monday, 26 November 2018 02:39 (four months ago) Permalink

really shows we have a long way to go before basketball coaches are taken as seriously as they should be

― Trϵϵship, Monday, 26 November 2018 02:53 (four months ago) Permalink

wankers corner isn't a "town", it's an intersection in wilsonville

it's a way of life imo

― Karl Malone, Monday, 26 November 2018 02:58 (four months ago) Permalink

Top 3 state employees in my state:

Athletics Head Football Coach $3,500,000
Athletics Head Basketball Coach $2,550,000
Surgery Chief, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery $1,300,000

― pplains, Monday, 26 November 2018 03:11 (four months ago) Permalink

Highest-paid non-college state employee is the head of the Dept. of Human Services at $282,800.

― pplains, Monday, 26 November 2018 03:13 (four months ago) Permalink

https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/PJM_2240_01.jpg

show me puke

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 17:50 (four months ago) Permalink

Utah

― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 17:54 (four months ago) Permalink

i would have liked to have been a fly on the wall when the artist drew the outlines of the states and just generally planned out where the states would go and how much space everything would need

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 18:24 (four months ago) Permalink

haha "sucker"

― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 18:56 (four months ago) Permalink

They got Texas right.

― pplains, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 20:16 (four months ago) Permalink

two months pass...

https://i.imgur.com/sdNvkLl.gif

― pplains, Thursday, 31 January 2019 00:23 (two months ago) Permalink

https://i.imgur.com/t30MnXj.jpg

― pplains, Thursday, 31 January 2019 00:25 (two months ago) Permalink

those are some high quality united states of americas

― Karl Malone, Thursday, 31 January 2019 00:29 (two months ago) Permalink

glorious

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 31 January 2019 00:31 (two months ago) Permalink

lies

I70 does not go through harrisburg

― mookieproof, Thursday, 31 January 2019 01:53 (two months ago) Permalink

Here we go...

― pplains, Thursday, 31 January 2019 04:38 (two months ago) Permalink

I-40 seemed a little high up to me too tbh

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 31 January 2019 12:43 (two months ago) Permalink

the eisenhower interstate system (simplified) (donkeyfied)

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fvignette3.wikia.nocookie.net%2Fworldof80s%2Fimages%2F0%2F03%2F1981.jpg%2Frevision%2Flatest%3Fcb%3D20140701022922&f=1

― maxwell’s silver hang suite (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 31 January 2019 12:46 (two months ago) Permalink

Here is his corrected and revised version.

http://www.chrisyates.net/reprographics/comics/284-repro2-interstatemap2.jpg

― peace, man, Thursday, 31 January 2019 13:31 (two months ago) Permalink

It's difficult to see, but he fixed up the harrisburg issue, among others.

http://www.chrisyates.net/reprographics/index.php?page=955

― peace, man, Thursday, 31 January 2019 13:32 (two months ago) Permalink

two weeks pass...

https://66.media.tumblr.com/291d64bee5d9371bd10c93eadf7d519b/tumblr_pmu7l1Sde01rasnq9o1_1280.png

― mookieproof, Thursday, 14 February 2019 16:14 (two months ago) Permalink

https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/5c646fda262898584b1b4cfa-750-563.jpg

― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Thursday, 14 February 2019 16:41 (two months ago) Permalink

Did not know that California's capital was now in Sonoma! xp

― wmlynch, Saturday, 16 February 2019 00:23 (two months ago) Permalink

Wisconsin and Michigan are so cute together!

xxp

― pplains, Saturday, 16 February 2019 21:13 (two months ago) Permalink

don't get that last one

― ertayone, Tuesday, 19 February 2019 17:58 (two months ago) Permalink

That's a map of what areas certain cities will resemble, climate-wise, in 60 years from now.

― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 18:02 (two months ago) Permalink

three weeks pass...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1uzj57XcAIW7U0.jpg

― mookieproof, Sunday, 17 March 2019 08:15 (one month ago) Permalink

yooooooooooo

― you know who deserves sitewide mod privileges? (m bison), Sunday, 17 March 2019 14:15 (one month ago) Permalink

three weeks pass...

https://i.imgur.com/1bGGm8b.jpg

― pplains, Monday, 8 April 2019 01:42 (two weeks ago) Permalink

In case you were wondering, it's Thayer County, Nebraska, home of the World's Largest Covered Porch Swing.

https://i.imgur.com/asd94IF.jpg

― pplains, Monday, 8 April 2019 01:44 (two weeks ago) Permalink

two weeks pass...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D3UalewXsAE3vyv.jpg

― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 12:58 (yesterday) Permalink

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