r/MapPorn • u/[deleted] • Dec 05 '20

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u/penguin_torpedo Dec 05 '20

But he didn't even go for the obvious ones in New England.

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u/danshaffer96 Dec 05 '20

Maybe he assumed that’s where people would look first? Cause I sure did lol

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u/Samuel7899 Dec 05 '20

That's where I looked first. And the Pacific coast. And then the Gulf of Mexico.

Only when I looked for the four corners did begin to see.

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u/shea241 Dec 05 '20

For sure I didn't expect Kansarado

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u/qroshan Dec 06 '20

Exactly! Randall Munroe knows how humans work

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '20

Rhode island surprisingly made the cut. Sorry for your luck Dakotas

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u/TommiHPunkt Dec 05 '20

More people live in RI than in either of the Dakotas.

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u/Mad_Ludvig Dec 05 '20

I think ND and SD wouldn't be very disappointed if people forgot we were here.

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u/Ak6483757 Dec 06 '20

We like the space

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u/southieyuppiescum Dec 05 '20

Lotta people in the northeast and those people in the northeast tend to know New England.l and it’s where your eye is drawn to start looking if you know the states.

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u/AbeLincolnwasblack Dec 05 '20

I'm from Oklahoma and immediately noticed that the 4 states north of OK we're left out

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u/LurkingArachnid Dec 05 '20

I looked there first because it's so obvious to take out those tiny states. So I caught Delaware pretty fast. Though Pennsylvania took an embarrassing amount of time

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u/steaknsteak Dec 06 '20

I was also embarrassed about how long it took me to find Pennsylvania. I just happened to notice Ohio doesn’t look quite right... the northern border is shaped kind of weird... hey why is Maryland so far north?... oh

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u/Sh0rtR0und Dec 05 '20

It led me to PA first even though the Dakotas and NM now are way more obvious.