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Phlegmish posted:I didn't realize there were Mayans living as far north as Tamaulipas. The Huastec (native name Tenek) have been separated geographically from the rest of the Mayans for quite some time, and had an independent civilization around the Panuco River no later than about 900 BC. Their language is unambiguously Mayan though.
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Hedera Helix posted:Why are there two Washingtons? For whatever reason they awarded Oregon the Columbia drainage even though giving the Columbia to Washington and the Willamette and Klamath to Oregon would probably be a better break.
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I imagine there's a fair number of young people moving away from Montana as well.Lycus posted:Lots of retired ex-Soviet immigrants. 
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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HookShot posted:I was once in a bank in Australia where a guy at the teller next to me was trying to cash a cheque and was having problems with it, and he kept asking the teller why they wrote New York twice on the address, how arrogant that was of Americans and all that sort of thing. I thought Luxembourg was a city state when I was a kid, granted it's not that much bigger but still.
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made of bees posted:Florida is an obvious one, but what the hell is going on with Montana? A lot of Montana like the Missoula and Flathead Lake area has cheap land and mild winters. It's really a pretty nice area.
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Dusseldorf posted:A lot of Montana like the Missoula and Flathead Lake area has cheap land and mild winters. It's really a pretty nice area. My fiancee lives in Bozeman and we're planning to live there when we marry next year. Montana doesn't come anyone's mind when "great places to live" are mentioned but even as someone who has no special affection for nature the place is absolutely amazing. I'm completely able to believe that retired folks would go to Montana for the outdoorsy stuff and general QOL with loads of land for low prices and so on, rather than heading down to Florida.
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White English-speaking Protestants from Minnesota vs. white English-speaking Protestants from Iowa with slightly different political opinions: special separate diverse nations. Native peoples with diverse histories, languages, cultures, beliefs, and practices: eh, whatever they're all the same, might as well just lump them together since no civilized person can understand their jibberjabber anyway. Ugh.
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I don't get the thinking of linking the "Midlands" US with Ontario. They don't even seem to mention Ontario in the link.
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Lycus posted:I don't get the thinking of linking the "Midlands" US with Ontario. They don't even seem to mention Ontario in the link. You could make a good case for pushing Ontario in with the Great Lakes area in general, but then you wouldn't be able to claim Minnesota as part of Greater Massachusetts.
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Fandyien posted:I got this from a great subreddit that is absolute fodder for this thread, reddit.com/r/mapporn. I thought Arizona was supposed to be the 2nd Florida, in terms of old people?
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Farecoal posted:I thought Arizona was supposed to be the 2nd Florida, in terms of old people? Arizona has more younger immigration than Florida too, and a whole lot of its retirees are seasonal and go back to their permanent residences in the Midwest or Canada for the summer. I imagine that pushes it down.
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Nov 12, 2013 20:28
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VitalSigns posted:Native peoples with diverse histories, languages, cultures, beliefs, and practices: eh, whatever they're all the same, might as well just lump them together since no civilized person can understand their jibberjabber anyway. Somehow I doubt that's the meaning the author intended.
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Squalid posted:Somehow I doubt that's the meaning the author intended. When you think Anchorage and the Navajo Reservation belongs in the same category it doesn't really matter what your intentions are.
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Squalid posted:Somehow I doubt that's the meaning the author intended. Nah, he just seems to consider the only meaningful national differences that exist are between white people. There are majority African-American counties in Mississippi and Alabama, but apparently they're pretty much the same as the white Southernors around them. But Eastern and Western Nebraska? Wow, so different they may as well be separate nations! Truly the differences among white Protestants are so fundamental that we're a regular Austro-Hungarian multinational empire!
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What I'm getting from this thread is that my map of a balkanized US + Canada is superior to this one.
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VitalSigns posted:Nah, he just seems to consider the only meaningful national differences that exist are between white people. More likely analyzing those differences was outside the scope of his project. I have not and will not read the article btw, but then again I don't think very many of us have.
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Fandyien posted:I like flags and maps and stuff enough that it seems worth it to me. 
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I wonder how they'd feel in New York City knowing that they are now residents of New Jersey.
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Lycus posted:I wonder how they'd feel in New York City knowing that they are now residents of New Jersey. Considering that version of New Jersey consists pretty much only of NYC, I'd bet they'd probably be just fine after some adjustment.
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I like how the state of Ohio does not actually contain the Ohio River.
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Kurtofan posted:It would be interesting to see the difference between Ireland and Northern Ireland. 1946 was the year with the largest amount of childbirths in Norway, I suspect the situation was similar in most of Europe. ulvir fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Nov 12, 2013 |
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Nov 12, 2013 23:12
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Kurtofan posted:It would be interesting to see the difference between Ireland and Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is ~15% over 65 so it'd be Norway's color.
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SaltyJesus posted:Stolen from D&D pics thread: On that note, there's something odd about everywhere but the old Aztec territory having Nahuatl names. Lord Hydronium fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Nov 12, 2013 |
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Nov 12, 2013 23:48
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Lord Hydronium posted:Why did south-central Mexico end up as a big region of Spanish names? It looks to roughly overlap the Aztec Empire, so are those all Cortes' doing? Guerrero, Hidalgo and Morelos, at least, are named after Mexican War of Independence figures and were created from parts of other states in the 1800s.
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Veracruz comes from the capital city (also Veracruz), which was named by Cortés because of a holy day or something. Puebla is short for the capital city (Puebla de los Ángeles) which came from vision a bishop had of angels descending from the heavens at the spot where the city was founded.
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Squalid posted:More likely analyzing those differences was outside the scope of his project. I have not and will not read the article btw, but then again I don't think very many of us have. I don't see how the indigenous nations that still exist are irrelevant to a paper on the nations of North America but okay. Surely African American culture in America is within the scope of his project though, right? Let's see what he says about this region Colin Woodward posted:Deep South: Established by English slave lords from Barbados, Deep South was meant as a West Indies–style slave society. This nation offered a version of classical Republicanism modeled on the slave states of the ancient world, where democracy was the privilege of the few and enslavement the natural lot of the many. Its caste systems smashed by outside intervention, it continues to fight against expanded federal powers, taxes on capital and the wealthy, and environmental, labor, and consumer regulations.  Oh hmm. Well I guess he is only interested in the important cultures in the South, not any county's majority culture. Well then. VVVV  No! I have a duty to explain why in detail until everyone agrees how bad it is! It keeps showing up on my social feeds and I can't stand it.
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We get it, the guy's map is stupid.
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VitalSigns posted:I don't see how the indigenous nations that still exist are irrelevant to a paper on the nations of North America but okay. Surely African American culture in America is within the scope of his project though, right? Let's see what he says about this region It is if his paper is only on estadounidenses blancos. That description, and the other peanut president posted, was pretty bad though. The borders of his "nations" mostly seem to match maps of North American dialects. Mostly, it has some weird spots.
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HookShot posted:I was once in a bank in Australia where a guy at the teller next to me was trying to cash a cheque and was having problems with it, and he kept asking the teller why they wrote New York twice on the address, how arrogant that was of Americans and all that sort of thing. Well how was NY?
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For extra confusion, there's cities in the US with the names of entirely different states. Have fun visiting Michigan, Wyoming and California!
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My favorite city name in California is definitely City of Industry. Commonly referred to as just "Industry", there's just something amusingly straightforward about the name that simply tickles my funnybone. It certainly lives up to the name too, as according to Wikipedia:quote:Home to over 2,500 businesses and 80,000 jobs,[5] but only 219 residents at the 2010 census—down from 777 residents in 2000—the city is almost entirely industrial.
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Ofaloaf posted:For extra confusion, there's cities in the US with the names of entirely different states. Have fun visiting Michigan, Wyoming and California! Don't forget Indiana, PA, Jersey Shore, PA (about 200 miles from the Jersey Shore), Washington, PA (x2 at least), California, PA, there's too many, I'm done. Plinkey fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Nov 13, 2013 |
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Ofaloaf posted:For extra confusion, there's cities in the US with the names of entirely different states. Have fun visiting Michigan, Wyoming and California!
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Ofaloaf posted:For extra confusion, there's cities in the US with the names of entirely different states. Have fun visiting Michigan, Wyoming and California! The fact that there is a Manhattan, Kansas continues to astound me.
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DrSunshine posted:My favorite city name in California is definitely City of Industry. Commonly referred to as just "Industry", there's just something amusingly straightforward about the name that simply tickles my funnybone. It certainly lives up to the name too, as according to Wikipedia: I can't wait for the next one to just cut to the chase and call itself Tax Haven, CA.
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DrSunshine posted:My favorite city name in California is definitely City of Industry. Commonly referred to as just "Industry", there's just something amusingly straightforward about the name that simply tickles my funnybone. It certainly lives up to the name too, as according to Wikipedia: I know we bash captains of Industry a lot on here, but.. quote:The city of Industry had the highest support for Proposition 8 in all of Los Angeles county. The amendment, which banned same sex marriage in California, was supported by 83% of Industry voters, with 19 (83%) voting yes, and 4 (17%) voting no.
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DrSunshine posted:My favorite city name in California is definitely City of Industry. Commonly referred to as just "Industry", there's just something amusingly straightforward about the name that simply tickles my funnybone. It certainly lives up to the name too, as according to Wikipedia: My favorite one is the one where Penn State is located, State College, Pennsylvania.
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Plinkey posted:Don't forget Indiana, PA, Jersey Shore, PA (about 200 miles from the Jersey Shore), Washington, PA (x2 at least), California, PA, there's too many, I'm done. Wyoming is actually named after the valley in Pennyslvania.
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DrSunshine posted:My favorite city name in California is definitely City of Industry. Commonly referred to as just "Industry", there's just something amusingly straightforward about the name that simply tickles my funnybone. It certainly lives up to the name too, as according to Wikipedia: My favorite town in PA is King of Prussia, PA. It's not named after the King of Prussia, but rather the inn in the town that was called the King of Prussia Inn.
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Plinkey posted:Don't forget Indiana, PA, Jersey Shore, PA (about 200 miles from the Jersey Shore), Washington, PA (x2 at least), California, PA, there's too many, I'm done. AFewBricksShy posted:My favorite town in PA is King of Prussia, PA. It's not named after the King of Prussia, but rather the inn in the town that was called the King of Prussia Inn. What IS the deal with Pennsylvania?!
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