Anyone care to explain to European noob what this means?
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.
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.
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.
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.
But I just started reading it... There's plant zombies and bison headed centaurs... It's good man don't make me stop now
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
Left: Mental Illness
Right: Mental Illinois
Mental Illinois sounds like a sick band name
As someone who just moved from the west into "the REAL US" ... this shit is old and broken and slow as fuck and everyone just accepts it like it's supposed to be that way.
Because it’s either that, or they pay taxes. They made their own bed.
Taxes are SO high in Pennsylvania it's crazy. I just need sidewalks, honestly.
NY, Florida, Texas, California are the only states, the rest is Ohio
if your state has a natural border, it's real. otherwise it's a prank. Which square state are you from, the one shaped like a square or the one shaped like a rectangle. get real motherfuckers
I would say that this is perfection, if it weren't for the simple fact that most states are in far more danger of Ohio than this shows... :-D
99% of the State of New York is nothing. NYC and Philadelphia belong in NJ, they each have a lot more in common with Jersey than they do their respective states.
New Jersey isn't real, it's just a suburb of NYC and Philly.
There seems to be a mistake with this map, Minnesota is a Canadian province
I wish!
So THAT'S what the psychs meant when they said I was living in a state of mental illness..
Tiny alaska tiny alaska
Texas can't be upstaged
Colorado: Real US
Rest of the states: Mental illness
True. Also how is Florida not mental illness? SMH my head.
Bc it's so far past that it has become its own thing. Like there's "mental illness", and then there's "Florida"!:-P
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
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.
states in the northeast
"we are the Midwest! :D"
"whelp, it's retarded. honey, look away." loads shotgun
A yes, the eternal september of 1806
Mentall
Nevada exists but only for Fallout new vegas
how can Nevada hurt you when it's not even real
It's all turtle island as far as I am concerned
How cute. The mental patients are playing a game, where they pretend half of them are normal <3
Alternative States of Dumbfuckistan
