2868: Label the States - Revision history

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 :Geography Challenge: Can you label all the states?
-:[Below is an unlabeled map of the United States, but instead of 50 states, there are 64. Each of the 14 extra states look similar to at least one of their neighbors.]
+:[Below is an unlabeled map of the United States, but instead of 50 states, there are 64. Each of the 14 extra states look similar to at least some of their neighbors. This is because they are often a new territory instead of the original boundary being between those original direct neighbours of each other, due to necessarily sharing the form of the now split original boundary-lines.]
 {{comic discussion}}
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 :Geography Challenge: Can you label all the states?
-:[Below is an unlabeled map of the United States, but instead of 50 states, there are 64. Most of the 14 extra states look similar to their neighbors.]
+:[Below is an unlabeled map of the United States, but instead of 50 states, there are 64. Each of the 14 extra states look similar to at least one of their neighbors.]
 {{comic discussion}}
 [[Category:US maps]]

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 :Geography Challenge: Can you label all the states?
-:[An unlabeled map of the United States, but instead of 50 states, there are borders for 64.]
+:[Below is an unlabeled map of the United States, but instead of 50 states, there are 64. Most of the 14 extra states look similar to their neighbors.]
 {{comic discussion}}
 [[Category:US maps]]

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 In summary, a (disjointed) row and a whole (slightly staggered) column of states have been added, and two new states have been added between Indiana and Ohio and between New Hampshire and Maine. The external shape of the United States ends up slightly modified to accommodate the new states with generic coastlines or borders contrived to resemble or reflect the actual adjacent ones, at least to the casual glance, as also with the new internal borderlines. As the title text says, there are now 64 states on Randall's map, not 50.
-In comic [[2394: Contiguous 41 States]], the opposite has been done, removing states so that there are 41 states instead of 50 or 64.
+In comic [[2394: Contiguous 41 States]] (with label), the opposite has been done, removing states so that there are 41 states instead of 50 or 64.
 The title text comments on the cliché that Americans are bad at civics and geography, parodying comments that Americans cannot name many of the US states. A statistic is mentioned saying that most people can only name 45-50 states, which is almost all of the actual states, but looks poor in comparison to the 64 states in the comic's map. Since the extra fourteen states are made up and do not have names,{{cn}} people will not be able to name them and get a perfect 64/64 score. The cliché is also parodied in [[850|850: World According to Americans]].

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 In comic [[2394: Contiguous 41 States]], the opposite has been done, removing states so that there are 41 states instead of 50 or 64.
-The title text comments on the cliché that Americans are bad at civics and geography, parodying comments that Americans cannot name many of the US states. A statistic is mentioned saying that most people can only name 45-50 states, which is almost all of the actual states, but looks poor in comparison to the 64 states in the comic's map. Since the extra fourteen states are made up and do not have names, people will not be able to name them and get a perfect 64/64 score. The cliché is also parodied in [[850|850: World According to Americans]].
+The title text comments on the cliché that Americans are bad at civics and geography, parodying comments that Americans cannot name many of the US states. A statistic is mentioned saying that most people can only name 45-50 states, which is almost all of the actual states, but looks poor in comparison to the 64 states in the comic's map. Since the extra fourteen states are made up and do not have names,{{cn}} people will not be able to name them and get a perfect 64/64 score. The cliché is also parodied in [[850|850: World According to Americans]].
 Being mean to people by asking them to name states on bad maps was also mentioned in the title text of [[1653: United States Map]].

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 * On the west coast, Washington, Oregon, and California all have their normal shapes, but there is a new rectangular state south of Oregon and north of California.
-* East of this, two more nearly rectangular states have been added between Idaho, Nevada, and Utah; and between Montana and Wyoming.
+* East of this, two more nearly rectangular states have been added between Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, and Utah.
-* A column of four rectangular states has been inserted between Montana/Wyoming/Colorado and the Dakotas/Nebraska/Kansas.
+* A column of five rectangular states has been inserted between Montana/Wyoming/Utah/Arizona and the Dakotas/Nebraska/Colorado/New Mexico.
 * Another somewhat rectangular state has been added between South Dakota and Nebraska.
 * Ohio and Indiana have been narrowed with a new state being created between them.
-* New states shaped like Arkansas and North Carolina have been added directly south of those states.
+* New states shaped like Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina have been added directly south of those states.
 * New Hampshire now has a state that looks like its reflection between itself and Maine.