Imagine having rectangle provinces/states. Nobody else in the world does this
A fucking square
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>>526189110the borders are based on longitude and latitude drawn with a magnetic compass on a map during the civil war by bureaucrats in Washington DC. They were unoccupied and the geography wasn't well mapped so they just drew them as squares to be settled later.
>>526189710the main purpose at the time wasn't for settlement, but for land management. like you can see the Rocky Mountains are nearly all in Colorado. Kansas and Nebraska are mostly squares but stop at the Missouri River.
>>526190348Nevada is the Great Basin Desert and Mojave Desert. the straight line borders encompass the deserts
>>526189110Looks nice and orderly to meLook at this cluster fuckpeople in the corners must have it rough
>>526190789This is because of mountains, they used valleys a the provincial borders. Tibet being the most extreme example.
>>526189110why has Oklahoma stolen that thin strip from Texas?
>>526189110As a surveyor, I can't imagine not having them. 'This boundary is 216 years old, and the thing that was used to set it doesn't exist anymore, and the river that war used for that corner has migrated 3 kilometers west'.Using lines based off of well measured and maintained defense reference points is just logical. Of course the world that is coming is going to get rid of all that nuisance by getting rid of private property.
>>526189710>>526190348>>526190613>>526191453Stop being rational and making sense!
