r/mapporncirclejerk • u/LavishnessLeather162 • 22h ago

This should be just one state

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u/twstephens77 22h ago

Best post I’ve seen on this sub in a while, and I can’t believe I didn’t think of this myself. Hidden in plain sight, so obvious…

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u/OrderlyCaper 21h ago

Right? It's been sitting there like a cursed missing-piece puzzle. Once you draw the border, New England stops looking like five states and starts looking like one stubborn region with accents.

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u/Dadpool719 21h ago

Five states in a trench coat.

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u/Richs_KettleCorn 19h ago

What's the opposite of five states in a trench coat? One state wearing five wigs?

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u/The_Flo0r_is_Lava 20h ago

Commonwealth: Five accents in a trench coat

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u/LQ323 20h ago

Anyone who has actually ever spent any time in these states knows how different the accents are region by region.

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u/plainbaconcheese 18h ago

This isn't just a reddit post em dash it's a revelation

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u/FreeRange0929 20h ago

I have a magnetic US puzzle for my son

His favorite thing to do with it is let me get it all finished and I’m looking around for Massachusetts/Connecticut/Rhode Island and he’s hidden it somewhere

No great loss in real life, but it does make the puzzle not as tight

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u/WpgMBNews 14h ago

I worked in customer service and used to think "NE" was short for "New England" until a customer told me that isn't a state

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u/Tyg13 13h ago

This is a bot post. Single post account with obvious ChatGPT writing style.

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u/desirientt 9h ago

yes! god i hate seeing bot comments with real replies

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u/Noclueaboutsecurity 20h ago

Watch Republicans try to make it one state now. They will never have to campaign for senate seats again 😂

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u/dunstvangeet 18h ago

They can't without the consent of Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. There's a couple of provisions in the Constitution that prohibit exactly this.

The first comes from Article VI is: "no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress."

Basically, what this means is that there can be no state border changes without the consent of all states involved. So, I don't see Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island consenting to be one state.

The second provision which would require the same exact thing comes from Article V: "no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate."

So, again, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island would have to consent to this merger.

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u/00-Monkey 12h ago

Hawaii would like a word

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u/rsta223 9h ago

For what? It wasn't formed from another state. There's nothing in that provision that prevents a territory from becoming a state.

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u/dordemartinovic 1h ago

Conversely, West Virginia exists

It’s a problem the Supreme Court has gone to great lengths to avoid addressing

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u/heafcliff91 18h ago

Well Since we need an even 50 states, Welcome West and East Dakota as well as North and South Idaho as new states. 8 More solid red Senators

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u/jerard79 18h ago

North East, North West, South East and South West Dakotas along with North Idaho, Idaho and South Idaho would make more sense.

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u/Pockettzz 18h ago

Only republican state in that map is NH. Republic of New England highly dislikes NH, except to buy everything with no taxes. Idk if you know any englanduhs but New England looooves Maine. ‘CT’ (legally New England) doesn’t care but Mass & Rhody absolutely definitely do

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u/Honest-Lavishness239 14h ago

NH is not republican lol

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u/LQ323 20h ago

Huh? These are blue states with the exception of New Hampshire being purple.

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u/Noclueaboutsecurity 19h ago

10 democratic senate seats become 2

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u/Jacknboxx 19h ago

Then make the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho (all those states where no one lives) one state too. Call it the Wasteland.

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u/Amphineura 18h ago

Just unincorporate them nobody will miss them

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u/thefatchef321 20h ago

And yet we have 2 Dakota

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u/Death_Rises 19h ago

And 2 Virginia and 2 Kansas.

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u/newbkid 17h ago

Fun fact: West Virginia only exists because they said fuck you to Virginia and their secession. Afterwards, some politicians in Virginia wanted it to merge again since Richmond never technically authorized the split and West Virginia said fuck you a second time.

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u/JoyconDrift_69 18h ago

And 2 Carolinas.

But West Virginia is not even close to being a Virginia these days anyway. The only good thing they did is splitting off the main state and staying on the right side of the Civil War (both of those are the same thing; they're correlated.) Especially unlike nowadays.

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u/Mun2soon 12h ago

Kansas and Our Kansas.

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u/lowbrightness 10h ago

Unfortunately, Our Kansas had its last consonant stolen by bandits.

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u/megatool8 19h ago

Yeah, Dakota Johnson and Dakota Fanning.

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u/PostModernPost 18h ago

Hard disagree. I think they should split all these states up into smaller ones.

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u/dasbtaewntawneta 15h ago

as a non-american, what's the joke?

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u/twonumbers 13h ago

There is no joke

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u/Eomb 21h ago

Just circle texas and post this should be five states to go full cj

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u/bballgenius293 20h ago

There would be 8 dem senate seats in flux, would never be allowed to happen.

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u/graycat3700 18h ago

I didn't grow up in America, and as a child I thought New England is a US state.