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Hey! Whoever drew this map. NC wants part of its state back. (Original Post) Are_grits_groceries Jan 2014 OP
It looks to me like North Carolina is extending well into Tennessee Art_from_Ark Jan 2014 #1
Apparently Texas is messed up too. Are_grits_groceries Jan 2014 #2
Looks like they cut off a hunk of Virginia too, LuvNewcastle Jan 2014 #3
True, but this map Are_grits_groceries Jan 2014 #5
Yeah, it looks like someone drew it free-handed. LuvNewcastle Jan 2014 #7
Quite a few geographical oddities there JHB Jan 2014 #4
It must be the cold weather causing some states to bulge liberal N proud Jan 2014 #6

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
1. It looks to me like North Carolina is extending well into Tennessee
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 07:27 AM
Jan 2014

But South Carolina is really getting squished.

Are_grits_groceries

(17,111 posts)
2. Apparently Texas is messed up too.
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 07:39 AM
Jan 2014

There was a comment that pointed out how badly Texas was drawn. I am trying to find this map.

LuvNewcastle

(16,844 posts)
3. Looks like they cut off a hunk of Virginia too,
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 07:40 AM
Jan 2014

and there seems to be a no man's land between VA and KY. WV is much larger than it should be. I guess those weather maps don't have to be all that accurate, though. The information they give about the weather in different states is usually very general.

Are_grits_groceries

(17,111 posts)
5. True, but this map
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 07:48 AM
Jan 2014

has so many glaring errors that it's impossible not to notice them.
Surely they could have found a basic outline to use.

JHB

(37,158 posts)
4. Quite a few geographical oddities there
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 07:40 AM
Jan 2014

I think south Jersey nabbed Philadelphia. And it looks like Delaware and Maryland have been, shall we say, "mingling their borders".

liberal N proud

(60,334 posts)
6. It must be the cold weather causing some states to bulge
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 07:48 AM
Jan 2014

Georgia sure doesn't have that much coast line.

And the top of Nebraska, last I knew, it didn't have a hump.

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