States I have visited

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Originally posted by space

[edit] only 4 states, guam isn't a state.

Saw a statistic about us a few days ago - if Guam became a state, residents would have to pay 130% more taxes.

Of course, we'd get a higher return on the taxes we pay, but its a good move sticking to territorialism. ;)
 
Originally posted by mayorbill11
I'd like the canadian version please, thanks.

Here it is in gif form. If you would like the illustrator file just let me know. It's not really ... clean. It needs some fixins (:
 

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If there were something in ND to go to, I might go. My understanding is that it's just a big emptiness. I have that right here in Arkansas ... but a bunch of country folk.
 
well, here's my map.

oh, can we have an aussie version, please :)
 

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Originally posted by Cobraboy
Does anyone know how they figured out the borderlines for the states? Im interested if anyone has a theory.....
Form what I've learned in American History, state lines were drawn for 3 different reasons:

1. Landforms and bodies of water.

Usually this is the predominant reason around the world for political boundaries. Long ago, you couldn't drive a Hummer over a river to invade another land. Sometimes horses were no good at it either. And some land-locked countries had no navy. Also, mountains may have been too hard to climb and traverse, so state lines are rather "imaginary", and decided by parallels/surveying. So rivers (the Mississippi for example, forms the state lines for 9 states) are one reason, lakes another (Michigan), and mountains for many others.

2. Native Americans (Indians...sorry if this offends anyone)

When white man had settled the US, they were largely the minority. Their ways were strange and different, and to some cultures, different + strange = kill them. At first, many territories were part of agreements (you take this, we'll take that) and others were just about how far whitey could terrorize the native people before he got bored and had to go back to camp to eat and sleep. Later on, we (whitey) kept moving natives around from this land to that land, and kept creating borders as necessary.

3. Laws and such

Who knows, one state might have allowed sleeping with your cousin, and another did not...this may have led to literal line in the dirt that has persisted to this day (even if the law hasn't). Differening political agendas, claims by other nations, and all sorts of other land grabbing (Hey! There's coal/oil/gold here! But not there!) may have contributed to state lines.

Behold!
Pupik's Three Theorems of State Lines.
 
Yeah, the short of all that ...

The squigly lines are natural boundries formed by rivers and land formations.

The straight lines are drawn on longituids and latituides ... for whatever reason.
 
Here ya go. Cropped it cause the other side was just blank.

Black=Lived
Grey=Visited.

If the map went all the way out to the UK, That would be highlighted in black.
 
I went on a cross -country trip to Colorado, I've been south a couple times and north into New Hampshire and Maine several times.
 

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