We’ve been ignoring the Dakotas for too long, they are spreading at an alarming rate!
108 0 ReplyIncest often doesn't provide viable offspring though.
13 0 ReplyTell that to the British royal line
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That's what happens when the antidax narrative takes hold.
5 0 ReplyDamn that's scary. I don't think there's many drag queens there but child abuse in those states are higher than most. /s
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This is cursed.
83 0 ReplyI only looked at this for ten seconds and I forgot how the real map looks.
59 0 ReplyThe malignant Dak-ancer has spread to your Cancerlina. The illness stems from exposure to fascist gerrymandering. It's a fatal prognosis.
11 0 ReplyI... I can't even figure what's wrong with it even though I know it's so very, very wrong. My brain hurts.
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As someone from Europe it looks fine to me.
19 0 ReplyI genuinely didn't get the joke until I read the hover text and even then I just assumed he put extra lines in to troll the Americans.
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That's an awful lot of Dakotas. Also, Ohio really ought to be renamed Ohno.
44 0 ReplyAnd no Howoming, Whatoming, Wheroming, or Whooming, missed opportunities.
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What really gets me is how you swapped Alabama and Mississippi just for kicks.
34 0 ReplyOhno
29 0 ReplyThat’s my favorite. Plus, the way it can be read as “Ohenno” or Oh hell no. Columbia on the West Coast is also a neat idea, considering that Columbia was the manufactured goddess designed to be an avatar for American greatness, before we got the Statue of Liberty. Columbia still has a big statue on top of the Capitol building in DC that never gets mentioned.
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This map freaks me out and I don't know why.
20 0 ReplyBecause everything you know is wrong, nothing is real, nothing matters, have a panic attack, you deserve it!
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Did I have a stroke?
20 0 ReplyYse
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3 0 ReplyIt's a Typo: His name is Ted and he's into GILFs.
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ok but where’s MASHINGTON
17 0 ReplyWest of Wontanna
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Fun fact, there are no US states that start with A.
16 0 ReplyThe closest is Arkansas which starts with an "A". Which is pronounced similar to an "A".
24 0 ReplySome ChatGPT fun facts
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Likewise there are no states with a B in the name.
3 0 ReplyIsn't Kentucky the only one that starts with a K?
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I have an inkling that the two Arkansas are pronounced differently. "Are-Kansas" and "Are-Can-Saw".
15 0 ReplyOne is Akansas
13 0 ReplyI see that now. I did not see it then.
2 0 ReplyAre-ken-saw, A-kan-saw and a Kan-sahs
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One has no R
5 0 ReplyI see that now. I did not see it then.
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That's because Arkansas (ARE-can-saw) retained the native language pronounciation, while Kansas (CAN-zuhs) was Anglicanized.
3 0 ReplyToday I learned the native language was French!
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Ok, I don't get it.
14 0 ReplyA recent XKCD was just the blank map with ~64 "states" and the direction to try and name them all.
23 0 ReplyHere it is: https://lemmy.world/post/9604451
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I see Kansas, but where's Kan'tsas?
13 0 ReplyKansas, Akansas, Arkansas was clever my guy. How would you pronounce Akansas tho? A-kansahh? Akansahh? A-Kansas? Akansas? Ahkansas? Ah-kansahh?
13 0 Reply9 0 ReplyAhkansas, just to piss off the French
7 0 ReplyAh-kansah, I would imagine.
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Is this what having an aneurysm feels like?
13 0 ReplyI did a couple of cartography classes in college and I can say this is 100% correct.
8 0 ReplyLooks right to me ╮(•‿• )╭
8 0 ReplyHow would you like them labeled? They already have the names.
8 0 ReplyThe names are an edit of the original xkcd comic, where the states are blank.
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It just occurred to me that there are no states named East Statename.
8 0 ReplyEnglish 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.
10 0 ReplyThat's because the expansion of the US across the continent was westward.
5 0 ReplyI know. It just seemed funny that the other three directions are represented.
If/when Puerto Rico becomes the 51st state, it should take the name East Puerto Rico, just to be fair.
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Serious answer: we started at the eastern seaboard and expanded west. "East Statename" implies eastern expansion.
5 0 ReplyAre there any 'West _____' states? I know there are north and south
3 0 ReplyCountry roads take me home to the place I belong
spoiler
West Virginia
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This makes my brain hurt
7 0 ReplyI think you forgot that Wyoming isn't real
7 0 ReplyIt's just a fancy name for "Dakota[citation needed]".
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Central Dakota...
6 0 ReplyAmerica's waistline grew a little it seems after thanksgiving
6 0 ReplyColumbia should be Jefferson. Alternatively Columbia could be Oregon, then Oregon becomes Columbia. Cascadia would also be appropriate for either.
6 0 ReplyOooo, you're right. I originally had (north–south) Washington → Columbia → Oregon but then realized that Oregon's shape was second and so lazily swapped the two names. Cool to know!
3 0 ReplyI'd also like to offer Moregon or Oreagain
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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.
6 0 ReplyMany residents of Kentessee would love to change the name to Elevennessee, but that's been found extremely exclusive by the former Kentucky residents who were lumped into the state upon its creation.
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Why are there so many Mexicos?? The Mexicos are multiplying, you guys. We're about to be overrun.
6 0 ReplyYou didn't build the wall fast enough, all the Mexicos illegally came through the border and became states.
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I had a college professor who absolutely would have handed something like this out as a pop quiz.
5 0 ReplyThis map made me think that I'd love to teach US history and just drop this map on a bunch of 16yos.
"You must label all the states, I won't answer any questions."
And just wait for the first WTFs
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This is fantastic
4 0 ReplyClose enough.
4 0 Reply"Texas"
Well that's a very generous description based on the current discourse of personal freedoms being violated
4 0 ReplyAlmost perfect! Of course Akansas should be Nebrahoma. Rookie mistake, but great work otherwise! Gold star
3 0 ReplyI like how it has both Arkansas and Arkansas
3 0 ReplyThe northern one has no r.
3 0 ReplyMy blind ass. I guess we're stuck with the incorrectly pronounced Arkansas and a cheap knockoff
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Shouldn't have made a bunch of states rectangles then
3 0 ReplyWith all of the new red states this map would create, we might as well just rename the country Trumpistan.
2 0 ReplyCheckmate
2 0 ReplyNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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You missed Upper Peninsula north of Wisconsin.
2 0 ReplyThat's the other part of Michigan, unless the Upper Peninsula decided to become Upper Dakota while I wasn't looking.
10 0 ReplyAccording to Sean Hannity on Fox News it's Canada
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I think we could make it easier for many by drawing a diagonal line from the top of Columbia on the west coast to Louisiana in the south east and just label the whole area "Old Mexico".
Then when people start yelling at you go back to where you came from or learn to speak American they can return to Europe where their ancestors were born...
2 0 ReplyOld Hampshire!
1 0 ReplyI'm surprised he only crammed one more state into the northeast. Easy opportunity to put a dozen lines pointed to one little dot-sized section
1 0 ReplyDammit, get the Round-up. Ohio is multiplying.
1 0 ReplyUtah...i can see your junk
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