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Postby Cekoviu » Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:14 am

Thermodolia wrote:
Luziyca wrote:They're not contiguous, though.

Unless you want to make a state so blatantly gerrymandered that it'd make "the Earmuffs" look like a paragon of contiguity.

What is Michigan?

It's a state located in the northeastern quadrant of the United States, bordering Ohio, Indiana, Ontario, and Wisconsin. It's the 10th most populous state, in large part due to the Detroit metropolitan area.
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:20 am

On the county level, there is Fulton county, Kentucky which is clearly not contiguous.

I almost spelled that like contagious.

That said, Liberty Island. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Island An exclave of New York state in New Jersey.
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Postby Northwest Slobovia » Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:21 am

*Reads thread* The majority of the posts indicate that people are trying to repartition the states with all the care and knowledge with which the European empires carved up Africa at the end of the 19th century. :p
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Postby Olthar » Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:22 am

Cekoviu wrote:
Thermodolia wrote:What is Michigan?

It's a state located in the northeastern quadrant of the United States, bordering Ohio, Indiana, Ontario, and Wisconsin. It's the 10th most populous state, in large part due to the Detroit metropolitan area.

What? Michigan is midwest, not northeast.
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Postby Evil Dictators Happyland » Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:23 am

Northwest Slobovia wrote:*Reads thread* The majority of the posts indicate that people are trying to repartition the states with all the care and knowledge with which the European empires carved up Africa at the end of the 19th century. :p

It's an NSG thread, everything involved is going to be done with the care and subtlety of a Scotsman attacking a giant bear with a chainsaw

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Postby The Blaatschapen » Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:24 am

Northwest Slobovia wrote:*Reads thread* The majority of the posts indicate that people are trying to repartition the states with all the care and knowledge with which the European empires carved up Africa at the end of the 19th century. :p


I wasn't alive back then, so I have to get my jollies now.
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Postby Hammer Britannia » Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:24 am

Evil Dictators Happyland wrote:
Northwest Slobovia wrote:*Reads thread* The majority of the posts indicate that people are trying to repartition the states with all the care and knowledge with which the European empires carved up Africa at the end of the 19th century. :p

It's an NSG thread, everything involved is going to be done with the care and subtlety of a Scotsman attacking a giant bear with a chainsaw

I have never heard that analogy before, but I love it.
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Postby Teachian » Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:25 am

Northwest Slobovia wrote:*Reads thread* The majority of the posts indicate that people are trying to repartition the states with all the care and knowledge with which the European empires carved up Africa at the end of the 19th century. :p


Sure we could make intelligent, well-researched borders to best keep regional stability or harmony,

But random lines and annexations are way cooler!
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Postby Northwest Slobovia » Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:32 am

Evil Dictators Happyland wrote:
Northwest Slobovia wrote:*Reads thread* The majority of the posts indicate that people are trying to repartition the states with all the care and knowledge with which the European empires carved up Africa at the end of the 19th century. :p

It's an NSG thread, everything involved is going to be done with the care and subtlety of a Scotsman attacking a giant bear with a chainsaw

Hee! :)

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Northwest Slobovia wrote:*Reads thread* The majority of the posts indicate that people are trying to repartition the states with all the care and knowledge with which the European empires carved up Africa at the end of the 19th century. :p


I wasn't alive back then, so I have to get my jollies now.

...and NSG is the best you can do? Poor Blaat... :p
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Postby Olthar » Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:33 am

Northwest Slobovia wrote:*Reads thread* The majority of the posts indicate that people are trying to repartition the states with all the care and knowledge with which the European empires carved up Africa at the end of the 19th century. :p

I disagree. Europe didn't draw Africa into dicks.
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Postby Northwest Slobovia » Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:34 am

Olthar wrote:
Northwest Slobovia wrote:*Reads thread* The majority of the posts indicate that people are trying to repartition the states with all the care and knowledge with which the European empires carved up Africa at the end of the 19th century. :p

I disagree. Europe didn't draw Africa into dicks.

Indeed. That's why your proposal has a great advantage over all the others. *nods sagely*
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Postby Frostnia » Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:35 am

Give the UP to Wisconsin and change the Minnesota border from the St. Croix to the Mississippi
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Postby Olthar » Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:36 am

Northwest Slobovia wrote:
Olthar wrote:I disagree. Europe didn't draw Africa into dicks.

Indeed. That's why your proposal has a great advantage over all the others. *nods sagely*

I figure, if you're going to fuck things up, you might as well go all in.
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Postby Hammer Britannia » Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:37 am

Olthar wrote:
Northwest Slobovia wrote:*Reads thread* The majority of the posts indicate that people are trying to repartition the states with all the care and knowledge with which the European empires carved up Africa at the end of the 19th century. :p

I disagree. Europe didn't draw Africa into dicks.

I mean, if you squint, DRC, Namibia, and Cameroon kinda look like they have them.
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Postby Valrifell » Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:56 am

Northwest Slobovia wrote:*Reads thread* The majority of the posts indicate that people are trying to repartition the states with all the care and knowledge with which the European empires carved up Africa at the end of the 19th century. :p


It's an excellent demonstration of "I know what borders these people want better than themselves" but applied to the US instead of some third-world nation.
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I'd redraw them so that it resembled a doge face.
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Postby Cekoviu » Fri Jan 25, 2019 11:03 am

Olthar wrote:
Cekoviu wrote:It's a state located in the northeastern quadrant of the United States, bordering Ohio, Indiana, Ontario, and Wisconsin. It's the 10th most populous state, in large part due to the Detroit metropolitan area.

What? Michigan is midwest, not northeast.

Northeastern, if you divide the States into 4 equal quadrants. Michigan is in the Midwest the same way that Virginia is in the South -- it's more of an arbitrary contiguous cultural and historic group than a geographical reality.
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Northwest Slobovia wrote:*Reads thread* The majority of the posts indicate that people are trying to repartition the states with all the care and knowledge with which the European empires carved up Africa at the end of the 19th century. :p

I disagree. Europe didn't draw Africa into dicks.

America already has one anyway.
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Postby Nuclear Wastelands » Fri Jan 25, 2019 11:06 am

I'd Redraw it for older borders: Texas is bigger, Massachusetts has Maine and parts of NH, Make "Jefferson" The 51st state, etc.
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Postby Olthar » Fri Jan 25, 2019 11:07 am

Cekoviu wrote:
Olthar wrote:What? Michigan is midwest, not northeast.

Northeastern, if you divide the States into 4 equal quadrants. Michigan is in the Midwest the same way that Virginia is in the South -- it's more of an arbitrary contiguous cultural and historic group than a geographical reality.
Olthar wrote:I disagree. Europe didn't draw Africa into dicks.

America already has one anyway.

But 50 dicks is better than 1 dick.
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Postby Cekoviu » Fri Jan 25, 2019 11:25 am

Olthar wrote:
Cekoviu wrote:Northeastern, if you divide the States into 4 equal quadrants. Michigan is in the Midwest the same way that Virginia is in the South -- it's more of an arbitrary contiguous cultural and historic group than a geographical reality.

America already has one anyway.

But 50 dicks is better than 1 dick.

You know, I can't really argue with that.
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Postby Auzkhia » Fri Jan 25, 2019 11:28 am

Merge the Two Dakotas into Mega Dakota.
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Make one big Indiana

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