Hypothesis about New Mexico

[james_davis_nicoll]

It is not just that there's a 'mexico' in the name, it's that there are too many states to keep track of the names. How many nations have the equivalent of fifty plus provinces and territories?

Accordingly, how would you lump the states together to get a dozen or so states of roughly equal population?

Comments

[mastadge.livejournal.com]

Starting in the top right, we can lump New England into one state. Let's call it New England. New York can remain unconsolidated. Then we have Delmarva. Merge New Jersey and Pennsylvania. That's four chunks of 15-20 million people or so each.

Let's see. Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota. Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama. Georgia and the Carolinas. Texas remains Texas. Now I'm getting bored. But there's a start.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

California would actually have to be subdivided.

[(Anonymous)]

Bah, ninja'd me!

Bruce