The 'New' United States of America

The 'New' United States of America

Evidently it's map week on my website. Ben Blatt at Slate:

Most state borders were drawn centuries ago, long before the country was fully settled, and often the lines were drawn somewhat arbitrarily, to coincide with topography or latitude and longitude lines that today have little to do with population numbers. I wanted to know what the country might look like if we threw out all of the East’s ancient squiggles and the West’s rigid squares, and reconstituted the country as a union of states of equal population.

Some of the maps he came up with are hilarious.