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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago

Least gerrymandered election

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Whoever made this underestimates the shore of a Great Lake, I see. Ohio and Michigan already have beaches.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look man, I'll get sick if i drink from Lake Erie same as if i drank from the ocean. Works for me

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

In some parts of Michigan you don't even have to drink out of the lake. You can just drink out of your sink and get sick

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No salt and no sharks, and all the beachy goodness.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone who grew up on the Great Lakes who now lives on the Pacific, they are not comparable.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You can't get surfer hair without saltwater.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Minnesota and Wisconsin too. And with the Eerie canal, they all have access to the ocean

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If we're just gonna start counting whether or not our waterways have access to the ocean, then pretty much every Midwestern state counts by way of the Mississippi's drainage basin. 32 states have tributary rivers that find their way to the Mississippi, and then to the Gulf.

Incidentally, I love the detail in this map where the state of Mississippi no longer touches the Mississippi River, and the city of New Orleans is apparently divided across the states of Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, and Arkansas.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

After this map, Ohio no longer has a Great Lake Beach.
They’ll just be left with a salty proboscis through Mary’s West Virginia.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Michigan is stealing our BEACHES??!

TO WAR, I SAY! ⚔️

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The image says nothing about beaches, it's just the title of the post.

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

And no shot Chicago is moving into Wisconsin without a civil war first.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, Chicago here. Fuck the ocean, give me back my lakeshore.

Edit: actually, if I'm still physically in Chicago, I guess it doesn't matter overly much whether it's Chicago, IL or Chicago, WI, though I think Illinois needs us more, from a political perspective.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah we don't need it, keep your east coast beaches.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm fine with this as long as the little strip is referred to as the state's tentacle

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The "proboscis like appendage"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Sounds like prime real estate

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can now drive through Minnesota for an entire day and not leave.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Grand Portage, MN to Brookings, OR is 35 hrs on the fastest route and 37hrs on the route closest to the map.

That would be three long days of driving for someone not cannonballing it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Feels weird that MN doesn't follow the Mississippi to the gulf. But it's probably better this way

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Great, now everyone has more beach than poor NH

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Washington state is like helpppppp

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Split Seattle like that and you would turn those four other states blue, lol.

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

at the expense of flipping washington itself, though. lots of nutjobs in the portion that remains.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Not sure the folks in Bellingham are going to be too keen on joining North Dakota. Lynden might be cool with it though. Idaho claiming Spokane would be a hilarious (and tragic) turnabout. Would Okanogan even notice becoming part of Montana? The state capitol stays at least, but losing the Seattle metro region would be a major blow to the economy. Looks like Vancouver is now Washington's largest city... And it's just a subset of another state's metro region!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

United States

*offer not valid in Hawaii and Alaska.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No no I want to see Hawaii landlocked now.

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

California gets stretched to surround both of them.

"What, you went to Hawaii for vacation? That flyover state?"

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oklahoma is now very jealous of North Dakota having a longer “finger”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Minnesota's tail > both

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Long Island is gone.

Not complaining though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Every other state had to borrow its long.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol. Ohio trades 300 miles of shoreline and multiple islands along lake erie (to michigan of all people) so it can drive way the hell over to a crowded jersey beach. No thank you.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Excuse me, Crowded Ohio beach.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The IT wire management guys would have neatly routed the western states into a single oceanic backhaul access corridor.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

What about Alaska and Hawaii, don't they get to touch the ocean? /s

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I think Minnesota has the longest drive to it's beach. Anyone see a longer drive?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Ah yes the United States of Bosnia

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

This would be pretty cool. But would it have unintended negative consequences?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah pretty sure this will end well

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shit, my dumbass thought those were canals bringing the ocean to the states, and I only now see it's the states being stretched to the oceans lol

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

All states count as "US border" now, so every citizen falls under the complete and unrestricted authority of the DHS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

iirc, customs offices and international airports count as 'borders' so pretty much the whole of the lower-48 already 'qualifies'

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Michigan already has really nice beaches. Why the hell do they get to take Toledo and Cleveland?.. oh wait I'll get legal weed now so this is fine actually.

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

This is somewhat stressful to look at

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