My only complaint is that they still left the UP as part of Michigan... it would look much cleaner to throw that into another piece. If you ever wondered why it became part of Michigan read up on the "War of Toledo" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War
My impression (from talking to yooper coworkers) is that it's about half Wisconsin, half Canada up there. Either way, doesn't make sense to lump them in with us trolls.
This was probably carved out by hand. However, this would be an interesting problem to solve using integer programming, a technique that has been used to model the related problem of gerrymandering.
On the other hand, as a resident of Michigan, there are no words, in any language on Earth, that could begin to capture the joy I feel at the idea of excising Detroit (though I fear it may have already metastasized).
This data is already 10 years old. That means Detroit has already started shrinking, and therefore the new Detroit, if kept as an independent city, would be consuming more of Michigan.
Brilliant. Even in the senate, you can argue that low-population states like Wyoming shouldn't get 2 seats, or that Wyoming needs 2 seats to maintain control of its interests. Periodically redrawing state boundaries sidesteps this whole debate/dilemma.
Can this idea be further generalized? Minorities can be oppressed or powerful; strive to so intertwine motivations that minorities are eliminated.
It looks like Washington State and Alaska are merged. That makes little sense politically or organizationally. Where's Hawaii fit into this? Assuming 50 reapportioned states that's 6 million per state, and Hawaii only has 1.3 million people.
Rio Grande State should go north with the Rio Grande and not include Arizona. That is, it should be El Paso/Las Cruces/Albuquerque/Santa Fe and up into southern Colorado. As it is, it looks like ABQ would be a border city, and that makes little sense.
Hawaii is problematic, being a significant fraction of the target population level, yet very isolated. Alaska doesn't really make sense to combine with anything either, but its population is pretty much rounding error (it's got, what, as many people as maybe three blocks of Manhattan?) so it probably wouldn't matter that much.
Though maybe it'd make more sense to just grant Hawaii independence and sell Alaska back to the Russians or something--the whole noncontiguous territory never sat well with me anyway.
So are the populations normalized to one Long Island?
And on a totally unrelated note, sometimes Rhode Islands are used as units of area. I knew a girl in college that told me she grew up on .53 RI ranch in Texas. I had no idea what she was talking about, then she explained to me that RI = Rhode Island. I think they used a small plane to get around.
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[ 2.3 ms ] story [ 69.3 ms ] threadFor all the trouble it would cause, I know quite a few people who wouldn't mind parting with old Baltmo' for good.
Close-up of NYC area: http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/reform/nyc/
This was probably carved out by hand. However, this would be an interesting problem to solve using integer programming, a technique that has been used to model the related problem of gerrymandering.
Can this idea be further generalized? Minorities can be oppressed or powerful; strive to so intertwine motivations that minorities are eliminated.
But with some caveats. http://akkartik.name/blog/2010-01-23-21-24-35-soc
A silly generalization: At birth everyone draws a lot --- or throws a die with fifty sides --- to decide which state he will belong to.
Rio Grande State should go north with the Rio Grande and not include Arizona. That is, it should be El Paso/Las Cruces/Albuquerque/Santa Fe and up into southern Colorado. As it is, it looks like ABQ would be a border city, and that makes little sense.
Though maybe it'd make more sense to just grant Hawaii independence and sell Alaska back to the Russians or something--the whole noncontiguous territory never sat well with me anyway.
And on a totally unrelated note, sometimes Rhode Islands are used as units of area. I knew a girl in college that told me she grew up on .53 RI ranch in Texas. I had no idea what she was talking about, then she explained to me that RI = Rhode Island. I think they used a small plane to get around.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_units_of_measur...