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[–] [email protected] 107 points 2 years ago (4 children)

We’ve been ignoring the Dakotas for too long, they are spreading at an alarming rate!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Incest often doesn't provide viable offspring though.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tell that to the British royal line

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Any royal line for that matter

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As someone from Europe it looks fine to me.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

That's an awful lot of Dakotas. Also, Ohio really ought to be renamed Ohno.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

And no Howoming, Whatoming, Wheroming, or Whooming, missed opportunities.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago

What really gets me is how you swapped Alabama and Mississippi just for kicks.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

This magazine has been cracking me up for weeks now. Had to share:
https://sopuli.xyz/c/aneurysmposting

https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]

Hmm, trying to understand your username, are you both very intelligent/ talented AND have a lift kit on your vehicle?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This map freaks me out and I don't know why.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

Because everything you know is wrong, nothing is real, nothing matters, have a panic attack, you deserve it!

[–] 21Cabbage 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It took me way too long to realize he added States not just mislabeled them.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

ok but where’s MASHINGTON

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

West of Wontanna

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I have an inkling that the two Arkansas are pronounced differently. "Are-Kansas" and "Are-Can-Saw".

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But where is Are-Cannot-Saw?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Kansas, Akansas, Arkansas was clever my guy. How would you pronounce Akansas tho? A-kansahh? Akansahh? A-Kansas? Akansas? Ahkansas? Ah-kansahh?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ahkansas, just to piss off the French

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Is this what having an aneurysm feels like?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

I see Kansas, but where's Kan'tsas?

[–] user1234 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Should be Kansas, Arkansas, and Cokansas.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Looks right to me ╮⁠(•⁠‿• )⁠╭

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (8 children)

It just occurred to me that there are no states named East Statename.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

English settlers arrived in the east. So wherever they were when they named an area, that was the original, and as they spread west, north or south, they had to add those directions to keep them distinct.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's because the expansion of the US across the continent was westward.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I did a couple of cartography classes in college and I can say this is 100% correct.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think you forgot that Wyoming isn't real

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

It's just a fancy name for "Dakota[citation needed]".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

This makes my brain hurt

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I have to say I prefer New Mexico A and New Mexico B. It's poetic justice, as the Eastern border of New Mexico was drawn by a drunken surveyor from TX, so we're just getting back what was ours. Take a look at the map, and the history, strange, but true. Also Tennessee and Elevenessee are made for each other.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Central Dakota...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Columbia should be Jefferson. Alternatively Columbia could be Oregon, then Oregon becomes Columbia. Cascadia would also be appropriate for either.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

America's waistline grew a little it seems after thanksgiving

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