Bitterroot or Bust!

This one's for Gail.

I get the sneaking suspicion that it would be easier to change the maps than it would the Constitution, if you're all that interested in proportional Senatorial representation. Of course, we lost Denali and Mokuʻāina o Hawaiʻi. And they should rename the vast High Plains ... Dakotas.

Let's see... I'm from Lincoln; went to school in ... Green Bay (appears to have absorbed Evanston, if the Chicago city borders aren't extended there -- can't tell); interned and started my career in ... Everglades? Spent the late 90s and early years of this century in ... St. Croix (which actually was the county I lived in.) Back to Green Bay (Madison) for law school ... and now back in more northern St. Croix, where it's currently 13 and snowing.

(Yep, sometimes I wish I lived in the Everglades again.)

They should do a map like this with localized animals and wildlife, or predominant regional treees. And go back in time too, when the giant sloths and saber-tootheds roamed. Fun to see things broken down in graphically interesting ways -- that's a gift too, much like communicating well in writing. And breaking that fourth fifth wall with words only.

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~ Neil Freeman did the map.