Controversial Maps

Posted by Miss Cellania in Travel & Places on August 16, 2008 at 7:24 pm



What if there were only 38 states in the USA? In 1973, California State University geography professor George Etzel Pearcy proposed that the state lines be redrawn to better distribute population, urban areas, and tax base. Obviously, his plan did not come to fruition. Mental_floss takes a look at the 38 state map, the badly distorted Mercator Map, and the map that claims the Chinese discovered America in the article 3 Controversial Maps. Link




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4 comments to "Controversial Maps"

  1. Ant
    August 17th, 2008 at 2:37 am

    I remember CA was purposed into three states.

  2. Dim67
    August 17th, 2008 at 4:06 am

    Makes a lot of sense to me!

  3. Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
    August 17th, 2008 at 1:26 pm

    I’m surprised they didn’t include any of those joke maps that went around the Internet after the 2000 (or was it 2004?) election, which showed many of the blue states defecting to join Canada. Now that would be controversial!

  4. that.other.guy
    August 17th, 2008 at 5:30 pm

    funny that the “State of Erie” doesn’t actually touch Lake Erie… hmmm… no wonder this ended up in the dustbin. :]


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