Semiquincentennial is a mouthful. So much that my spell check doesn’t believe it’s a word. The Bicentennial, which I’m old enough to remember well was easier to pronounce, and celebrate. I won’t make any grand statements, instead here are some fun, interesting or alternative maps of the United States to celebrate its 250th birthday.
I’ll start with the original inhabitants of this land. This is one of the maps of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, previously featured here in this post.
Tribal Map 2000
You can see the whole map here.
License Plate Map (one of many)
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| -via Photowall |
If the states were based on watersheds: The United Watershed States of America
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| -via Next City |
The United States drawn as Fifty States with Equal Population
This is an attempt from Neil Freeman to make the Electoral College more fair - good luck either way that! More here.
Speculative fiction - USA in the Man in the High Castle
The Man in the High Castle is a 1962 novel by Philip K. Dick, which imagines a world in which the Axis powers won World War II. Map from Wikimedia Commons. It looks like Long Island might be safe. I’m not sure where some of these oddly specific boundary jogs come from.
A less depressing speculative map (unless you hate rail) - Sci fi coast to coast high speed rail network.
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| -via Greater Greater Washington |
Finally, for dessert here is the Most Popular Pie by State
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| -via Holiday Calendar |
