Why are most US states literal rectangles? Serious question

Why are most US states literal rectangles? Serious question.

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Why make it complicated? Its easier this way.

>Most
Nigga there's like six that are squares

Wesh

Assburgers

They copied the northhwest ordinance

it's not the majority of them.

The ones that are, are that way because we acquired a huge amount of territory in a very short amount of time and needed to divide it up somehow.

>amerisquares

if you read up on history it's because in the colonial era till 18th century, the american land had so low amount of population that drawing straight lines was easier and better than a complicated no existing borders

they were the leftovers that other states didnt want/care to populate

The founding fathers sliced the US like a cake cause Freemasons prophecy says one day its citizens will get big enough to eat it.

its better than our original, overlapping state borders

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Because we harnessed the power of SCIENCE to create flawless mathematical borders.

We have no need to divide boundaries based on autistic rivers and ethnic groups like pleb Old Worlders

When you see that in a country it means that was a barely populated flat land with no much reference points that needed to be divided. You can see the same in Argentina, Australia, the Sahara regions etc.

chekt

because virginia was too big

BASED BLACK MAN

thank you for your knowledge based argentinian man

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astounding observation

Nice numbers m8

is this the most boring get in the history of gets?

Trips confirm

At least it's not scripted.

Randstad aub

only colorado and wyoming are squares

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could have been worse

>empire
that would've been a weird state name

I live in Virginia and have never heard of Lunenburg, Kanawha, Letcher, or Nova.

Also West Virginia and Delmarva are Virginia clay

>dat burger

I like Forgottonia. That's good shit.

Natural borders are much more aesthetics for subdivisions

>the state of Reagan

you'd think that Trump would try to make this a reality

lunenburg is probably based on lüneburg

That's a lot of subdivisions. Does the average frenchfag know them all?

take a guess. we will see if your IQ > 80.

no culture no history

or looneyburg

Those arent administrative subdivisions, they're the natural/cultural ones, and no, they may know there own and a few known other, but they are getting forgotten as the time passes.

Oh okay. If you'd said yes I'd have been pretty impressed.

if i was him i'd say definitely yes, every kid knows that you americans are retarded hurr durr welcome to Sup Forums

>bitching about a problem while simultaneously saying you would have contributed to it

*blocks your path*

>I live in Virginia and have never heard of Lunenburg, Kanawha, Letcher, or Nova.
Most of these proposed divisions are ancient and/or entirely academic with no public traction or exposure.

wasted get

Because they developed their federal system when they were just 13 colonies based around port settlements on the east coast and just continued on at that scale for the next century. Not that we're any better with our internal borders, federalism a shit.

You must get on your knees and worship Federalism and accept that it is the most highly-evolved system the world has ever known, even greater than Republican Democracy!

Not if it had a huge-ass building.

>The ones that are, are that way because we acquired a huge amount of territory in a very short amount of time and needed to divide it up somehow.
We too, but look how our regions are shaped.
I've been thinking about it, why you shaped your land that way and we another way.

We have a system of government based around arbitrary colonial borders that didn't even make sense 120 years ago and divisions of financial power and administrative responsibility that never matched up but are now so out of synch that if you want to get anything done in government you have to exist in a quantum superposition of jurisdictions. We'd be better off setting up county style governments around the metropolitan centres and letting the rest be governed by the feds. Victoria and Tasmania would be about the right scale.

Nova > NoVA > Northern Virginia
it's just DC transplants from other states being fucking retards

we created our states differently

"And, whenever any of the said States shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such State shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government: Provided, the constitution and government so to be formed, shall be republican, and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles; and, so far as it can be consistent with the general interest of the confederacy, such admission shall be allowed at an earlier period, and when there may be a less number of free inhabitants in the State than sixty thousand."

and congress has no need to admit new states, puerto rico has been eligible for decades now, some states took over 50 years
when colonists have to survey the new borders themselves, they tend to do it with less curvey lines to save time/their own money
and our federal government hasnt ever changed, unlike some countries....

California really needs to be split up
It would work out better for californian residents, and for the federal government

texas too probably

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