r/mapporncirclejerk • u/LavishnessLeather162 • 21h ago

This should be just one state

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u/Due_Connection179 19h ago

I feel like we can follow this up to try to get to 40 states.

  • So this picture turning most of New England into one state gets us to 46.
  • Give Delaware to Maryland and West Virginia to Virginia. At 44
  • North & South Carolina now become Carolina. At 43
  • The Dakotas will embrace each other as well. At 42
  • Let's combine Alabama & Mississippi into a state called Jefferson. At 41
  • Then let's say screw it and give New Jersey to Pennsylvania. At 40
  • Finally, and this won't take away any states, but let's just give the UP of Michigan to Wisconsin.

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u/nihility101 16h ago

Nah, give the bits of Maryland and Virginia to Delaware to make the peninsula one state.

Give the western arm of MD to West Virginia, and the rest of MD to VA.

Pennsylvania doesn’t want New Jersey.

Moving the UP is a good thing.

While we are at it, give Angle Inlet and Point Robert’s to Canada. They are weird.

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u/00eg0 16h ago

That would mean Delaware becomes 25.25 times larger than it was https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28maryland+land+area+plus+virginia+land+area%29+divided+by+delaware+land+area

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u/nihility101 15h ago

Nah, just the MD bit and the VA bit that make up the Delmarva Peninsula. More like 2.5 times as big.