Looks like it was drawn by Mœbius.
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True!
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What intrigues me is that there are almost 25% of Ohio residents who don’t think they’re in the Midwest. What name would they use instead?
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Hell?
I keed, I keed! Is beautiful state!
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Presumably they count themselves as part of the Northeast? I mean, this is how the name Midwest is used by convention, but it has been a long time since there was anything obviously “west” about Ohio.
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We’re hearing all about the Australian election in the news threads today, so I thought I’d point out how the results maps show just how uneven the Australian population distribution is:
And here’s an equal area map of the same result:
The difference is immediately apparent, it’s obvious that land doesn’t vote (anymore), and the shape of the equal area cartogram is barely recognisable as Australia.
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I wonder how the answers had turned out if the question had been “Do you consider yourself in a flyover state?”
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And a full quarter of Idahoans consider themselves to be in the Midwest. Have they never looked at a map?
Obviously “Midwest” is a vague concept that means different things to people – another reason to eschew bogus “official” designations.
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West:
The western theater of the American Civil War encompassed major military operations in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee, as well as Louisiana east of the Mississippi River. Operations on the coasts of these states, except for Mobile Bay, are considered part of the lower seaboard theater.[1] Most other operations east of the Appalachian Mountains are part of the eastern theater. Operations west of the Mississippi River took place in the trans-Mississippi theater.
They left out the Midwest or Old Northwest because there was much less fighting there.
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Especially as it starts in mid September. Many a tourist has been found trundling incomprehending across the empty Wiesn in, well, October.
It’s never too late to point out that Oktoberfest is a Bavarian thing, though.
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In Wisconsin it’s acceptable to drink like it’s Oktoberfest anytime
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After looking at that, I’m not gonna follow Travello anywhere for any reason.
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i was not ready for that gif
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Travelo, for the adventurous spirit! Follow us, and you never know where you’ll end up! And neither will we!
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Where is “Rom”? The other city names seem to be mostly just bad placement and mistakes in the pointers; mistakes I can at least interpret and see what they meant. But “Rom”?
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It’s Rome, but only when you’re looking at it from Germany.
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