Altered Maps VII: Making the World a Better Place

[mangxema]

some US states, particulary in the west, is devoid of any natural borders. it looks ugly... if a state bordered on the colorado river, that would look much better.

You're complaining about the squares being ugly? West Virginia and Maryland are far uglier and awkward looking IMHO.

 

[Communisto]

Dude, have you guys seen Saskatchewan?

 

[ZeletDude]

Like this one? Turns out America isn't much of a blue and red country, but more of a mash up of different shades of purple.

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EDIT: This one is distorted to show the populations of the counties also

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Source for both, and it has some simalar maps.
http://uspolitics.about.com/od/elections/ig/President-Results-2004-2008/

This one has a GIF with all the results from 1960 on.
http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/election2004/

Didn't notice this before but my county is still distincitively blue.

 

[Lord of Elves]

Didn't notice this before but my county is still distincitively blue.

You've all caught communism. The only cure is copious amounts of reading from the Bible and partaking of Glenn Beck.

 

[Arakhor]

I thought the cure was misreading the Bible and twisting it to mean anything you like?

 

[TheLastOne36]

I thought the cure was misreading the Bible and twisting it to mean anything you like?

AND Glenn Beck.

 

[berkut]

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[madviking]

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What is this I don't even.

 

[Lord of Elves]

Any reason why the Confederate States of Africa happen to fall in with British imperial territorial lines?

 

[W|M]

You made large parts of Brazil Bolivia and Portugal!

 

[warpus]

 

[Joecoolyo]

Hehe, that's pretty cool

 

[W|M]

 

[berkut]

Any reason why the Confederate States of Africa happen to fall in with British imperial territorial lines?

its kinda black british empire

if people share the same language, race, creed and history I think they shoud stay together.
same happens to brazil, I divided it between the natives, the black, the catholics and central europeans
the two unreadeable yellow territories are nunavut(in canada) and great bahia(east brazil, angola, moçambique)


I divided it into
north american natives
siberian natives
white and black french
white and black british
white and black portuguese
south american natives
catholic saxons
catholic germans/poles
protestant germans
orthodox slavs
buddist altaics
turks, indians, chinese, sunnis, shias, etc

 

[Tee Kay]

if people share the same language, race, creed and history I think they shoud stay together.

You can't be serious.

First of all, ethno-religious borders are never as clear cut as that. Take Brazil. You're trying to translate its ethnic mix into territorial divisions on the ground which just doesn't work due to the "melting pot" character of the country.

At the same time, you're grouping people together who have very little common with regards to culture, language, history, complicated by geography. Great Bolivia, for instance, is bisected by the Andes. It has two major languages, Spanish and Portuguese, not counting the hundreds of Indian languages like Quechua and Aymara each of which is spoken by millions of people. Historically, the region was never ruled by a single country. Amazonian Indians do not belong to the Andean culture group of the Quechua- and Aymara- speaking Indians in Peru and Bolivia.

Another case is "Lamastan". There are so many things wrong with this I don't know where to begin. Firstly, the suffix -stan is Persian, a language not widely spoken anywhere in the region. Secondly, Lamanism is Tibetan. Southeast Asian countries like Burma, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia follow completely different strands of Therevada Buddhism. Vietnam is actually predominantly Mahayana, and Malaysia and Xinjiang are in fact predominantly Muslim. The people of Lamastan do not share a common history, have never been ruled by the same country, and will speak at least ten major languages, and even more minor languages and local dialects. It makes as much sense as... words fail me... actually it doesn't make any sense at all.

In fact, you'll find that in almost every single case you've done the opposite of what you're claiming to do.

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[Danielion]

if people share the same language, race, creed and history I think they shoud stay together.

I don't mind being part of Gothland. Germans (including Austrians) and Dutch (including 'Flemish') have kind of a similar mentality (but they won't admit it).

Also, due to global warming, all the World would tremble before the might of great Nunavut!!

 

[Dachs]

You can't be serious.

First of all, ethno-religious borders are never as clear cut as that. Take Brazil. You're trying to translate its ethnic mix into territorial divisions on the ground which just doesn't work due to the "melting pot" character of the country.

At the same time, you're grouping people together who have very little common with regards to culture, language, history, complicated by geography. Great Bolivia, for instance, is bisected by the Andes. It has two major languages, Spanish and Portuguese, not counting the hundreds of Indian languages like Quechua and Aymara each of which is spoken by millions of people. Historically, the region was never ruled by a single country. Amazonian Indians do not belong to the Andean culture group of the Quechua- and Aymara- speaking Indians in Peru and Bolivia.

Another case is "Lamastan". There are so many things wrong with this I don't know where to begin. Firstly, the suffix -stan is Persian, a language not widely spoken anywhere in the region. Secondly, Lamanism is Tibetan. Southeast Asian countries like Burma, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia follow completely different strands of Therevada Buddhism. Vietnam is actually predominantly Mahayana, and Malaysia and Xinjiang are in fact predominantly Muslim. The people of Lamastan do not share a common history, have never been ruled by the same country, and will speak at least ten major languages, and even more minor languages and local dialects. It makes as much sense as... words fail me... actually it doesn't make any sense at all.

In fact, you'll find that in almost every single case you've done the opposite of what you're claiming to do.

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I just object to ethnic nationalism on the grounds that it's ethnic nationalism. You should too!

 

[Lord of Elves]

its kinda black british empire

if people share the same language, race, creed and history I think they shoud stay together.
same happens to brazil, I divided it between the natives, the black, the catholics and central europeans
the two unreadeable yellow territories are nunavut(in canada) and great bahia(east brazil, angola, moçambique)


I divided it into
north american natives
siberian natives
white and black french
white and black british
white and black portuguese
south american natives
catholic saxons
catholic germans/poles
protestant germans
orthodox slavs
buddist altaics
turks, indians, chinese, sunnis, shias, etc

This makes so little sense it's not even funny. If you were doing this on racial lines, then all of southern Britain save for Wales would be in the same country as northern Germany and Scandinavia. Imperial borders in Africa were for cultural purposes entirely arbitrary, there is no difference between the natives on one side of the border or the other. To draw a line between South-Africans as being "Anglo-African", as opposed to say, "Hispano-African", counterparts in what was once Portugal's imperial territory is ridiculous.

Also, "black British Empire". Is that to imply that over the ultimately brief ninety-year period of British imperial control that the natives have picked up and inherited European cultural habits, to be more specific, Anglo-Saxon culture? Assimilation on that level takes hundreds of years, people in Wales and parts of Ireland and Scotland still speak Gaelic dialects, and that's one of the most successful cultural assimilations in history.

 

[Danielion]

I just object to ethnic nationalism on the grounds that it's ethnic nationalism. You should too!

Let's redraw the borders at random and hope it won't escalate.

All tremble before the Turanian horde:

Link to video.

 

[Gruekiller]

Personally, I recommend making every household in Europe into its own country. That would be entertaining. Whoever made that map doesn't like Greece or Germany very much.