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ill see if i can find something like this for us
States I have visited
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ill see if i can find something like this for us
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this is where i have been
mayorbill11
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never been to the states mayorbill?
mayorbill11
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nope.
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oh how i envy you
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- Alabamamania
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.
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