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 (thirteen years ago) link

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 (thirteen years ago) link

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

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 13:16 (thirteen years ago) link

racist aunt OTM

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 13:19 (thirteen years ago) link

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

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 13:58 (thirteen years ago) link

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 (thirteen years ago) link

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The Beach Boys couldn't get chicks in Upper Michigan due to the overwhelming popularity of my uncle's band.

http://www.michiganrockandrolllegends.com/images/Excels%20Promo%20-%20JPEG%201965%20Beach%20Boys.jpg

― ☮️ (peace, man), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 18:39 (one year ago) link

This map gives you a rough sense of all the ways U.S. land is used. Much of U.S. land serves specific purposes, such as the 2 million acres devoted to golf courses or the 3 million acres for airports.https://t.co/WkDPqg3rwv pic.twitter.com/FUfKYZhy2L
— Farm Policy (@FarmPolicy) January 11, 2020

― mookieproof, Sunday, 12 January 2020 00:04 (one year ago) link

https://66.media.tumblr.com/41f90707a1f38b904bad3a4ea8b3d6dd/7d320e62997b6138-4b/s2048x3072/979dff40492f9b3effcff2514ec824b1c0138393.png

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 20:05 (one year ago) link

These maps never ever lie.

― pplains, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 20:17 (one year ago) link

https://66.media.tumblr.com/730d0f8b559bab5fb14a7814e8247f80/23d3b54b2d953a0f-cc/s1280x1920/0357da7a059770c7896cfb90b86215d22a7c8ea8.png

― mookieproof, Friday, 24 January 2020 18:03 (one year ago) link

three months pass...

https://i.redd.it/z8lobhvz0zw41.jpg

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 20:40 (one year ago) link

two weeks pass...

What's the Matter With Kansas?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYj26o-U8AAZmE9?format=jpg&name=large

― mookieproof, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:07 (one year ago) link

Kind of weirded out by Virginia tbh

― I bless Claude Rains down in Africa (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:14 (one year ago) link

montana :(

― Karl Malone, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:33 (one year ago) link

(must. resist. Alabama. joke)

― I bless Claude Rains down in Africa (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:37 (one year ago) link

it's "Alabama"

― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 22 May 2020 17:22 (one year ago) link

ha i missed VA's....

― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 22 May 2020 17:23 (one year ago) link

I bet Kansas has theirs because of the Koch Brothers.

― pplains, Friday, 22 May 2020 18:07 (one year ago) link

Someone else will have to explain Vermont.

― pplains, Friday, 22 May 2020 18:08 (one year ago) link

skeptical of the variety in this one...seems a bunch of states would have more in common along the lines of “definitely” and “separate”

― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 22 May 2020 18:13 (one year ago) link

five months pass...

i know the precise layout of this map is unimportant for its purposes but nevertheless it is appalling

More than half of South Dakota's covid tests are coming back positive right now. pic.twitter.com/fNrhF1Z6je
— Dave Levitan (@davelevitan) November 3, 2020

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 21:34 (nine months ago) link

I hate those too.

Nothing like driving due west from Shreveport to Tulsa.

― pplains, Wednesday, 4 November 2020 04:17 (nine months ago) link

two weeks pass...

That slow lift from east to west across Kansas, Nebraska, etc.

https://i.imgur.com/328WiSr.jpg

― pplains, Saturday, 21 November 2020 16:50 (eight months ago) link

Like, whoa, I'm losing my balance here.

https://i.imgur.com/QuHIMh5.jpg

― pplains, Saturday, 21 November 2020 16:54 (eight months ago) link

ha, the highest point in kansas is "mount sunflower," which is a hill a half mile from the colorado border.

the walls of the sierra nevada and by the snake river on that map are cool

― circles, Sunday, 22 November 2020 00:16 (eight months ago) link

three weeks pass...

How Life Magazine imagined North America would look like if the US didn't intervene in WW1. (Cover of Life Magazine, October 10, 1916) #twitterstorians #maps pic.twitter.com/dlwqL47lZJ
— Eriks Bredovskis (@bredovsk) December 17, 2020

― mookieproof, Friday, 18 December 2020 02:31 (seven months ago) link

with Florida as “Turconia”!

― obsessed with quality over quantity or the need to produce tracks (breastcrawl), Friday, 18 December 2020 12:47 (seven months ago) link

lol @ "Barbarians"!

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 20 December 2020 01:57 (seven months ago) link

otm tho

― mookieproof, Sunday, 20 December 2020 03:54 (seven months ago) link

one month passes...

https://www.weather.gov/images/srh/cwa.png

― circles, Sunday, 7 February 2021 19:33 (five months ago) link

― mookieproof, Sunday, 7 February 2021 19:51 (five months ago) link

i've never considered redrawing borders based on 'our weather is pretty much the same' but i love it

― joygoat, Sunday, 7 February 2021 19:59 (five months ago) link

A little miffed that the Norman, Okla., and Pleasant Hill, Mo. stations are named after the town they're in while the Little Rock NWS is located in North Little Rock, Ark.

― pplains, Sunday, 7 February 2021 20:10 (five months ago) link

The narkissism of little differences

― Canon in Deez (silby), Sunday, 7 February 2021 20:14 (five months ago) link

tbf the arkansas travelers are based in north little rock and are rather more grasping

― mookieproof, Sunday, 7 February 2021 21:13 (five months ago) link

lol @ silby

I envision the Caribou weather station as being staffed by caribou

― baelien (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 7 February 2021 22:17 (five months ago) link

arkansas travelers are indeed based in arkansas though. we've had this conversation.

― pplains, Sunday, 7 February 2021 22:18 (five months ago) link

have we now

― mookieproof, Sunday, 7 February 2021 22:54 (five months ago) link

Map of the US by a truck driver who has seen most of it…

https://i.imgur.com/UrNtZ0T.jpeg

― pplains, Thursday, 18 February 2021 14:50 (five months ago) link

this map of the United States that made it onto a Sri Lankan local TV station gives me the same feeling as when I listen to American pundits talking about China pic.twitter.com/XVkt11btEx
— Matthew Graham (@mattysino) March 2, 2021

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 19:08 (five months ago) link

one month passes...

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

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 08:59 (three months ago) link

In the news tonight, a Floxas man...

― Ezra Kleina Nachtmusik (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 09:03 (three months ago) link

That's pretty close to what the original 13 colonies looked like!

― pplains, Wednesday, 28 April 2021 10:11 (three months ago) link

two weeks pass...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1RwOTSXoAEo7FT?format=jpg&name=small

― mookieproof, Thursday, 13 May 2021 15:54 (two months ago) link

Kansas City is not going to be happy about this.

― pplains, Thursday, 13 May 2021 16:32 (two months ago) link

That is about the most stupid "analysis" I have ever encountered

Texas be sooooo pissed (rightly so)

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 13 May 2021 16:57 (two months ago) link

Yes, we've seen the "Top Cities for BBQ in the US" @TripAdvisor map.

Our official statement is "LOL."
— Texas Monthly (@TexasMonthly) May 13, 2021

― mookieproof, Thursday, 13 May 2021 17:03 (two months ago) link

Technically speaking that is a map of cities where TripAdvisor users have the lowest standards for barbecue

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 13 May 2021 17:06 (two months ago) link

That said, I have eaten some excellent barbecue in southern VA not far from Virginia Beach, very vinegary and not at all like the Texas style, dug it

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 13 May 2021 17:07 (two months ago) link

the cedar plank salmon in seattle is really hitting i guess?

― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 13 May 2021 17:09 (two months ago) link

a salvadorian texas style bbq place just opened up near me outside of DC and it's fucking me up how good it is

― Heez, Thursday, 13 May 2021 17:46 (two months ago) link

two months pass...

https://i.redd.it/73tyd3fjmle71.png

― mookieproof, Saturday, 31 July 2021 21:09 (four days ago) link

utsa is on the map babyyy

― class project pat (m bison), Saturday, 31 July 2021 21:17 (four days ago) link

i didn't know campbell even had a football team

― mookieproof, Saturday, 31 July 2021 21:19 (four days ago) link

wow sucks to be vandy

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 1 August 2021 16:54 (three days ago) link

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