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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I want a map that shows all of our conflicting claims with the Canadians at the maximum. Big spiky Maine with all the islands, the parts of the Louisiana Purchase over the parallel, the Pacific Northwest at 54 40, all of it. An alternate universe where only our claims on Canadian land were upheld.
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escapegoat posted:
What's the big olive in the middle of the cancerous growth up north supposed to be ? (also while I'm sure it's based on Ptolemy, I doubt the map itself is from the 2nd century - that font is at least 8th century, although judging by how clean it is and how black the ink is I'd guess 14th)
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Kobal2 posted:What's the big olive in the middle of the cancerous growth up north supposed to be ? Comparing to the next map maybe Hadrians Wall and the Antonine Wall? Looks like its maybe Caledonia or similar just to the north of it. Might make sense to call out defensive lines at the edge of empire on a map?
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It’s labelled right above it, “Caledonia Silva”, a woodland.quote:Next to the Damnoni, but more toward the east near the Epidium promontory are the Epidi and next to these the Cerones; then the Carnonacae, and the Caereni but more toward the east; and in the extreme east dwell the Cornavi; from the Lemannonis bay as far as the Varar estuary are the Caledoni, and above these is the Caledonian forest, from which toward the east are the Decantae, and next to these the Lugi extending to the Cornavi boundary, and above the Lugi are the Smertae; below Caledonia are the Vacomagi, among whom are the following towns: Interactive 
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I like this idea but limiting it to the Lower 48 is dumb
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It's much easier to stick to the contiguous states, but it would be cooler if the map went over all the overseas possessions. Or if the east coast was split up by which monarchs acquired it for Britain.
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A bad map. Clearly the Malvinas and Argentine Antarctica should be green on both sides.
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Apostrophe placement on the map on the right is killing me, god drat.
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The opportunity to troll Uruguay was right there
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Random Imgur find.
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Powered Descent posted:Random Imgur find. Well at least we Floridians are honest with ourselves.
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These seem like pretty typical rivalries, California's got a pretty big fallout zone, Massachusetts is the bad boy of New England, the rest of the northeast likes to pick on Jersey, but what the hell is South Carolina's problem with Ohio? And then Hawaii and Jersey make me suspect that this was all made up. I wonder who Puerto Ricans and DCians hate.
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can confirm TX and NY Ohio is a pretty typical second place hatred for a lot of places- it's the most visited and least remarkable of the unremarkable northwestern states. Chili pasta, knockoff Kentucky, and knockoff rust belt. Doesn't have Chicago. Isn't Minnesota. No Fargo. In a license plate war with North Carolina Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Jan 18, 2020 |
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I hate the 25 states or whatever that didn’t make the list, you guys suck the worst
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Ikasuhito posted:Well at least we Floridians are honest with ourselves. We know we're terrible and that puts us above, say, Texas.
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can hella confirm KS/MO, Kansans are still upset that protoconfederates like Quantrill burnt swaths of the land down such that the zone up to 100mi south of Kansas City was called "Burnt District", Missourians are still mad that John Brown went around killing their slavers/arming slaves like all things American, it's most pronounced in college sports rivalries, to the extent that the NCAA sometimes talks about putting us in different conferences
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Jay Rust posted:I hate the 25 states or whatever that didn’t make the list, you guys suck the worst just you wait until my team plays your team
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At least Connecticut doesn't hate itself. That's what I would have guessed.
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Numerical Anxiety posted:A bad map. Clearly the Malvinas and Argentine Antarctica should be green on both sides. This but unironically.
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SlothfulCobra posted:These seem like pretty typical rivalries, California's got a pretty big fallout zone, Massachusetts is the bad boy of New England, the rest of the northeast likes to pick on Jersey, but what the hell is South Carolina's problem with Ohio? SC hates Ohio because a lot of Ohioans vacation at Myrtle Beach for some reason.
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There are also a lot of Ohio transplants to SC, enough that this exists: The stereotype is they can't stop talking about back "home"/"north". I haven't encountered that personally.
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a ton of ohio/rust belt transplants move south for the climate and job market. the people from ohio are so annoying and the state of south carolina so void of anything else, that the relative power of ohioans in south carolina cross a threshold point. ohioans are less noticeable in georgia and north carolina
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I'm surprised Indiana is listed as hating Kentucky more than Illinois. We loving despise Illinois in my part of the state, but have no particular beef with Kentucky and generally have high opinions of Michigan and Ohio.
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I would've thought Ohio's would be Kentucky or Indiana, but I also don't care about sports and I guess Michigan is a football thing? West Virginia also sucks but is beneath notice.
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Grand Fromage posted:I would've thought Ohio's would be Kentucky or Indiana, but I also don't care about sports and I guess Michigan is a football thing? The Michigan/Ohio rivalry occurs in all college sports these days but the origin is probably in the Toledo War. e: The Toledo War is the most Midwestern thing. A lot of poo poo gets talked but nothing actually gets done due to alcohol and incompetence and then they quit because it got too expensive. If you were to toss in some racism there you'd feel a hypothetical Midwestern national anthem playing deep in your soul. Soviet Commubot fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Jan 19, 2020 |
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MinisterSinister posted:We loving despise Illinois in my part of the state, but have no particular beef with Kentucky and generally have high opinions of Michigan and Ohio. That sounds about right. I can certainly confirm in Illinois any time something turns out poorly one can always say at least we're not Indiana.
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Soviet Commubot posted:The Michigan/Ohio rivalry occurs in all college sports these days but the origin is probably in the Toledo War. And the reward was the winner got to keep... Toledo.
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MinisterSinister posted:I'm surprised Indiana is listed as hating Kentucky more than Illinois. We loving despise Illinois in my part of the state, but have no particular beef with Kentucky and generally have high opinions of Michigan and Ohio. I don't know why Kentucky is listed as hating Tennessee. No one here gives a poo poo about it. Indiana is the state everyone absolutely despises.
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Grand Fromage posted:And the reward was the winner got to keep... Toledo. Sounds like the loser dodged a bullet
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Milo and POTUS posted:Sounds like the loser dodged a bullet Since the "loser" got the Upper Peninsula, I'd say so.
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natural borders or bust
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Grand Fromage posted:And the reward was the winner got to keep... Toledo. To be fair, both sides anticipated a canal going from the Ohio River to the Maumee River and thus to the St. Lawrence Seaway to be a very lucrative economic endeavor. The Miami and Erie canal was completed in 1845, just in time to compete with railroads and dooming the whole project to a very Rustbelt abandonment.  saintonan posted:Since the "loser" got the Upper Peninsula, I'd say so. Copper mining in the UP started right about when the Miami and Erie canal was finished and ended up producing about 11B tons of copper over the next century, which I'm sure made certain Michiganders at the time pretty smug about their "loss".
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Soviet Commubot posted:Copper mining in the UP started right about when the Miami and Erie canal was finished and ended up producing about 11B tons of copper over the next century, which I'm sure made certain Michiganders at the time pretty smug about their "loss". And that doesn't even count the iron ore on the way to becoming Pennsylvania steel.
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