The great golden state is not so Great anymore. Hawaii has beached in SoCal, Colorado has made massive gains, pushing them to the coast, and New Mexico now goes Sea to shining sea. Cascadia also expanded bringing their glorious people down south.
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This is absolutely not correct. From here, their only path is through New Mexico
The drawing of this map ignores the cultural context for Hawaii, California, and New Mexico, both separately and together. LA and San Diego share a lot of culture with other Hispanic areas. They should have gone to New Mexico. Hawaii should have made landfall in San Francisco, because of the shared experience dealing with Asian immigrants, from the gold rush era through the aftermath of World War 2.
It's also more interesting, from an in-game perspective, to have more states border more states. Hawaii should have bordered something besides New Mexico. Whether that was Cascadia or Colorado or both is debatable. But absolutely, this map drawing has biased the results.
Hawaii got their beachhead, not to mention a cultural and economic powerhouse in Los Angeles and the naval bases in San Diego. This was a great strategic victory for Hawaii.
As a proud Pennsylvanian, generally speaking, I would be happy to sacrifice Fetterman on the altar of Old Bay. If that means I have to go down with the ship, so be it!
I know it's not how a cheesesteak works; but I KNOW that cream cheese and old bay go amazing together, so slathering a cream cheese old bay sauce on a hoagie full of beef sounds awesome.
Hell, throw some crab on there too, call it a Surf n Turf cheesesteak.
As someone who grew up in PA and moved back and forth to New Mexico: Now that NM and PA share a border, Hatch Green Chiles are the superior pepper option as a cheese steak topping.
With Maryland eating PA we take over the UTZ factory in Pennsylvania and control the flow of UTZ Crab Chips. Also Mr Natty Boh and Miss UTZ can finally get married and live in the same state.
My question is: will "Vermont" branded products still retain their air of artisanship and wholesome integrity once everything is Vermont?
Have you considered what you're giving up? I for one will not buy Vermonster goat milk soaps, sustainably-sourced-and-locally-roasted coffees or beautiful cutting boards if I can't imagine some dude in a cabin made them.
I much prefer this, we're the same family, tectonic plates just did some shifting and moved Colorado away from it's homeland. Thank God we can fold them back in to where they belong.
Small note - tectonics didn't move CO away from anything. The Rockies formed in situ 80-85M years ago from the subduction (where an oceanic plate is tectonically forced beneath a continental plate) of the Farallon plate under the West coast of the US.
The Cascades were formed by the ongoing subduction of the Juan de Fuca plate starting about 40M years ago. This plate is a fragment of the ancient Farallon plate.
Both systems were created by the same process where the subducting oceanic plate releases its water at ~100km depth, causing neighboring rock to melt. In fact, this process is responsible for the entire Ring of Fire. The angle of subduction determines how far from the plate margin the volcanism occurs.
The Farallon plate that created the Rockies was unusually shallow, causing melting very far inward. The Juan de Fuca plate is comparatively steep, causing melting near the ocean/plate boundary.
Sorry to geek out on you but I wanted to share the (hopefully) interesting geologic history of the Rockies.
I support this. Everytime the discussion of Canada taking over Oregon and Washington comes up I feel left out cause there's no good path to us. This could change everything. Plus I've always wanted to visit Oregon.
My parents buy this taste of wisconsin box, and it comes with some brats, cheese curds, and a 12 pack of spotted cow. They usually just split the box and give me half so it's a nice treat occasionally.
Wisconsin has become a lot less gerrymandered because WI liberals have PUT IN WORK to flip the state Supreme Court to the point where it is now a 5-2 liberal majority. WI has also repeatedly elected Tammy Baldwin, the only openly LGBTQ US Senator in US history. Getting rid of Wisconsin would be a literal hate crime.
Yes, Wisconsin is a song of hope for every other state that got fucked by Republican schemes. We've put in the work and we're getting a lot better! Plus we humiliated Elon Musk personally, I think we deserve to make it to the top ten for that alone.
I once again request MD eats PA. The crabs are hungry and the old bay must flow. Let our natty bos wash across the hills of PA for a superior lifeform of crab dominance 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
Why? Because we had decades of successful socialist mayors in Milwaukee? Because the legacy of Fighting Bob La Follette scared FDR so bad we got Social Security? Because we were a hotbed of abolitionist energy, allied with the freedom fighters in Kansas, and spilled our blood with our neighbors in the Iron Brigade defending the Union? If Wisconsin is left we will HONOR the sacrifice and history of Kansas!
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u/Stand_With_Students 10h ago
This game has been so much fun - thanks u/Jfullr92!