Anyone care to explain to European noob what this means?
It’s mostly a shitpost, but the US was originally only the East coast. Over time, the states spread more and more west, so it’s saying that all these “new” states are basically a delusion.
Originally the US expanded quite slowly, due to difficulties in travel and surveying. States were small and communities were close together, about as far apart as a person could walk in a day. At the end of the 1700s, it was only about as big as the blue area in the post above. But in the 1800s, after the Louisiana Purchase, we began to very aggressively expand westward. The construction of the Intercontinental Railroad helped immensely, and towns were being built almost faster than they could name them. The government began giving away land for cheap or sometimes free for anyone who could develop it. Native Americans were forced off their land and onto reservations. State borders became straight lines encompassing vast areas.
That’s also very interesting in light of the US superficially appearing to be strongly federal in nature (with the individual states enjoying a great deal of autonomy) - a structure which would historically be known to develop in a bottom-up manner, where preexisting smaller entities would federate to form a larger state. This history is telling very different story, where those entities were not actually preexisting, but invented by the central authority 😂
The original thirteen colonies worked exactly like that. From then on, it went something like “Hey, federal government, we want to be a state. We’ll follow all your rules, pinky promise.” “Aight.”
I always knew California was a bedrock of metal illness
From the information above and knowledge of how we populated most of this country, I think there is a strong possibility that whether you forged the river or caulked the wagon, the Mississippi river must have been tainted.
I’ll be deep in the cold cold ground before I recognize Missourah.
states in the northeast
“we are the Midwest! :D”
“whelp, it’s retarded. honey, look away.” loads shotgun
STOP doing manifest destiny
Nations were never supposed to span from coast to coast
Want to have more coastline anyway? We have a solution for that: it’s called a PENINSULA
If you want more coastline, all you have to do is measure with more accuracy.
Fjords
Narf
Stalin: our nation should span from coast to coast
Putin: I won’t be satisfied with just the Crimea peninsula
Iberian Peninsula is so hot right now
How cute. The mental patients are playing a game, where they pretend half of them are normal <3
Left: Mental Illness
Right: Mental Illinois
Mental Illinois sounds like a sick band name
So THAT’S what the psychs meant when they said I was living in a state of mental illness…
Mentall
Nevada exists but only for Fallout new vegas
Tiny alaska tiny alaska
Texas can’t be upstaged
It’s all turtle island as far as I am concerned
Florida just shouldn’t exist and I’d probably move California over to the other side. But on the whole I think this pic is passable.
Northeast + West Coast and Everywhere Else.
The line is so…vertical. Incorrect but funny.
Sooner or later Florida won’t be a state anymore.
The great Florida reef?
That’s clever those buildings could potentially become home for the future fishes for sure. https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-cities-that-could-go-underwater-sea-level-rise-1996760
Ah but obviously tourism would spike to see to see the lost city of
AtlantisFlorida
