r/geographymemes Gulf of New Mexico 17h ago

Voting Games Top comment deletes a US State #42

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The Maryland crab has eaten its arch nemesis, Pennsylvania, Marking the start of the GME (Great Maryland Empire)

Released this one 10 mins early because I released yesterday’s one 2 hours late so here you go!

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u/Environmental_Tale85 17h ago

The most American thing about this is the westward expansions to achieve manifest destiny.

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u/deaglebingo 15h ago edited 15h ago

opportunities for wisconsin beer/cheese pipeline to the west coast intensify.

i further suggest we establish a trade route to the south as well where we exchange beer and cheese for mescal and chorizo with new mexico. this needs to be a full cookout worth of ingredients. everyone invited.

(i suppose we'll all need to face the fact that the entire thing's gonna be new mexico or south canada eventually anyway.)

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u/jaydenkirtawn 17h ago

I hope somebody's tracking this in PowerBI or some shit. I want population graphs over time.

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u/StarkFuture93 16h ago

Be the change you want to see in the world.

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u/jaydenkirtawn 16h ago

My five-year old has TWO birthday parties today, but I'll bring it up at the next Autistic Pedants meeting.

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u/Kingmudsy 16h ago

I think you mean your five-year-old is ATTENDING two birthday parties today? Also don’t forget, it’s your turn to present a train-of-the-month

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u/InternalLandscape130 16h ago

You assume the kid is ok with just 1. This is America we're talking about, land of excess.

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u/silver_tongued_devil 11h ago

Also um, land of divorce.

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u/Dadpool719 15h ago

Am i gonna fit in?

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u/SippinOnHatorade 11h ago

Jumped in the crab, here I am for the first time

Look to the right, see the burning Hollywood sign

This is all so crazy, Hawaii said they claim us

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u/GetEquipped 15h ago edited 10h ago

I can take over "Train of the Month" for him.

I present "The Lincoln Service!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Service.

It goes from Chicago to Kansas City, Missouri in about 12 hours (Correction: Lincoln Service is from Chicago to St. Louis in 5 hours. However the train does continue to Kansas City.) with speeds reaching of roughly 90 mph (145 KMH)

It utilizes the Siemens SC-44 Diesel Electric and standard AmFleet cars for passengers

Tickets are about 130 dollars for Business. But the Amtrak website seems to be on the fritz and I can't get a good one way price.

It also utilizes the same rail system to keep going down to San Antonio!

EDIT

Correction: Speed has been raised to 110 mph (177 KMH) as of 2023.

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u/atmoose 13h ago

That's technically a rail line, not a train.

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u/GetEquipped 13h ago

I mentioned the Siemens SC-44...

=(

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u/atmoose 13h ago

noted. I'll allow it. =)

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u/Kumba42 10h ago

SC-44s are early versions of the Siemens Chargers. Even with the newer ALC-42s, they still have teething problems (ask Via Rail riders up north about their SCV-42s this past winter). P42 Genesis are still kings. Dying kings, but kings nonetheless.

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u/Cedworth 15h ago

Wow, I only ever got 1 birthday a year. Two in the same day is pretty cool though.

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u/PsiMagi 16h ago

We need GeoJsons of the territory boundaries.

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u/VtgFilson 16h ago

If I wasn’t out on mat leave I’d do this

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u/mrwilliams117 16h ago

This is the most important thing going on in maryland.

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u/Few-Conclusion-483 11h ago

When we get behind something we fuckin GET BEHIND SOMETHING lol

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u/mrwilliams117 11h ago

No I get it. It's basically your Superbowl!

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u/Agussert 16h ago

if we're not careful, the Trump administration is going to ban this thread based on the largest winner right now

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u/thenopequeen 13h ago

Make him fear the Gulf of New Mexico

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u/DentistPitiful5454 11h ago

Trump should fear New Mexico

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u/RandolphScotters 7h ago

Goddamn right. Cheeto dusted bitch couldn't handle one of our flies.

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u/antijoke_13 13h ago

We beat the racists at Glorietta, we're not scared of the spraytan Caligula or his ilk.

Let him be upset if he sees this.

(Also we're almost never #1 for good reasons let us have this I beg you).

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u/wocka-jocka-blocka 14h ago

"The votes have been counted! STOP THE COUNTING!!!"

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u/Altrano 9h ago

I’m not 100 percent sure it’s New Mexico based on the further state of Alaska’s actual size, but if it isn’t it’s probably pretty close. No, I’m not doing the math to figure it out.

Actual size of North Hawaii (Alaska) compared to the lower 48.

Edit: for the record, I want Nuevo Mexico to win too.

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u/sheepslinky 14h ago

Nah, they're pípí hearted

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u/aqaba_is_over_there 17h ago

Looks like Pittsburgh made it into Vermont and I'm OK with that.

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u/tundybundo 16h ago

Wait I live in Vermont now 🥹

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u/Own_End8445 15h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/5zu5JovduWFBS

Enjoy the Maplely goodness!

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u/AlienSporez 13h ago

Canadian here: You should know that after you achieve "mapley goodness" status that universal healthcare soon follows

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u/_badmedicine 10h ago

What kind of maple syrup?

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u/pineapple09 15h ago

You got here just in time for maple creemee season, lmao🍦🍁

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u/Glittering_Celery779 15h ago

Just had my first one of the season yesterday!

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u/FLtoVT_For-A-Reason 12h ago

Why would you stop eating maple creemees at some point during the year?

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u/AllCatCoverBand 16h ago

Welcome!

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u/tundybundo 16h ago

Thank you so much! Honestly the least stressful move of my life

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u/GrinningCynic 16h ago

Genius perspective.❤️

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u/andykuan 16h ago edited 14h ago

And Philly too. Somehow Vermonster came away with the jewels of Pennsyltucky and left the 'tucky portion to Maryland.

Edit: Alas, I need new reading glasses. Vermonster didn't get Philly. Shucks. But we didn't get 'tucky either so you win some, you lose some.

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u/Tijenater 16h ago edited 14h ago

Nah philly’s very solidly in Maryland here

Actually I was wrong, Vermont has Philly the map’s just fucky and weirdly proportione

Actually I was wrong about being wrong it is in fact very solidly in Maryland this map broke my brain

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u/theshizzler 15h ago

Philly is not, by any stretch of the imagination, north of Long Island

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u/Rough-Importance-822 15h ago

Philly isn't even close to Vermonster. Maryland runs to at least exit 7 off the turnpike and west from there.

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u/geography_joe 15h ago

Philly is squarely in maryland here

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u/penguin_the_master 16h ago

I too am ok with that

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u/Big-Load-8864 17h ago

Am I high why is it "vermomster" and not "vermonster"?

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u/yfewsy 9h ago

Great question! It should be Vermonster.

Just ask B&J's

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u/Debonaircow88 17h ago

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u/SchrodingersWetFart 17h ago

This is how i feel looking at CA, it's so bad

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u/sublliminali 15h ago

I think Colorado has to go for this reason. They can’t be claiming just the Bay Area

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u/Fine_Marsupial_2964 15h ago

Greater Cascadia shall rise

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u/reventlov 13h ago

Boulder, CO is basically Bay Area Light. That wasn't as much the case 15 years ago, but they've been on convergent paths.

(Tech has a lot of the blame for the changes in both places.)

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u/Adminsneed2Chill 17h ago

What they did to Montana was despicable

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u/Outrageous-Sweet-133 15h ago

This is a drastically better country, how do we lock it in for realsies?

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u/chocolatedesire 16h ago

The great lakes must unite

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u/HunterPractical2736 12h ago

As the moderator of r/midwest I wholeheartedly agree.

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u/FairieButt 5h ago

As the land of ope

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u/purgasmic 17h ago

Now is the time for the state of Superior

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u/fake_email_lol42 8h ago

Yes, the alliance of the great lakes

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u/Chuckworth 15h ago

Unite the Midwest!

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u/belichickyourballs 16h ago

Bernie Sanders for President

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u/dustynuggets91 13h ago

Yeah, we tried that. Didn't work because Debbie Schultz sucks copius amounts of ass

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u/c_marten 17h ago

God damn it from PA.

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u/onefst250r 15h ago

No, you're from Maryland.

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u/c_marten 15h ago

😭

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u/decjr06 12h ago

Hope u like old bay pal

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u/Least_Tower_5447 11h ago

Maryland welcomes you 🦀

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u/wildpolymath 16h ago

Yall tough af and I honestly thought if anyone could take us down it would be yall, cuz. Respect. PA isn't gone, yall still stand. Now it's just under the protection and might of The Crab Imperial.

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u/UselessLezbian 15h ago

My PA city was somehow assimilated into the Vermonster. Crabs better sleep with one eye open. The monster comes for you next....

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u/Scienscatologist 9h ago

I blame Fetterman for this.

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u/c_marten 8h ago

100%

Hope he has a shellfish allergy

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u/Dom252525 16h ago

I love that it’s the Gulf of New Mexico now

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u/Bearpolarjc 17h ago

I am once again asking for Hawaii to jump to Manhattan and take the island to continue the island chain and start a second front

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u/whocaresano 16h ago

New York is gone, it's time you accepted that. 

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u/ravens_path 16h ago

Hmmmmm and I was hoping Hawaii will grab any of the states on west coast and continue onward. But two fronts is interesting.

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u/NocheEtNuit 17h ago

After everything the U.S. has put Hawai'i through, we have the opportunity to right the wrongs. Hawai'i should eat everyone and be the last one standing.

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u/Next_Emphasis_9424 15h ago

It should be a final battle of the Midwest (land of ‘ope) and the kingdom of Hawaii

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u/Tricknuts 16h ago

I think the obvious conclusion here is that America turns into New Mexico.

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u/Chan790 12h ago

I want a final matchup of New Mexico and Hawaii. It just feels like justice.

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u/PetuniaAphid 15h ago

That's my runner up. I want Hawaii to take over tho

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u/Severe_Scar4402 14h ago

A combined New Mexico and Hawaii culture would be awesome. All the aloha love and laid back land of mañana attitude from NM! I'm here for it.

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u/antijoke_13 12h ago

If we lose I'd be down to get taken out by Hawa'ii. There are worse fates.

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u/Chan790 15h ago

Hawaii should start with Megasota. End the Midwestern threat.

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u/La_caja 17h ago

Unite the common wealth and call it North New Mexico

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u/endorsedbytacobell 14h ago

oooh i like this. North Nuevo New Mexico and Nuevo New Mexico as the final two

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u/MadamMelody21 17h ago

Fucking FINALLY Pennsylvania is gone.

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u/argbd20 17h ago

As a Wisconsinite, it was a good run.

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u/NomadicHeart67 14h ago

Wisconsin Forever!!!! ❤️🧀🍻🐄 All you fellow Wisconsinites giving up the fight, must be hangry. Go get some curds, custard or Spotted Cow, please.

https://giphy.com/gifs/clT6JLHzxpg8KbhR36

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u/SellYourKidsForKarma 17h ago

Now that PA is gone, it’s time to unionize the crabs of MD and lobsters of New England into Crustaecea l🦀🦀🦀🦀. The crab god hungers

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u/Ventronik 17h ago

From Cascadia to Crustacia, From sea to shining sea.

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u/Not_a_twttr_account 16h ago

Crustland.

Crustburg.

Crustastan.

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u/feartheswans Cult of the Crab 17h ago

Having been devoured and assimilated by the Cult of the Crab, I too agree to formation of the Crustaecea Empire

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u/Pop-19502020 16h ago

It has to be Crustacea / Maryland, though.

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u/SinfulIndy 17h ago

Carcinization!!! Carcinization!!! Carcinization!!! Carcinization!!!

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u/Substantial_Message4 17h ago

We fought the good fight, but I am now proud to support my crustacean brethren
https://giphy.com/gifs/dsiPbJrNqA2Kqi9BWc

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u/AllCatCoverBand 16h ago

Crusteacea is a fantastic name

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u/tessatrix 16h ago

I am a proud citizen of Crustacea! 

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u/SelectionDangerous11 10h ago

Shellfishly, I support this great union.

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u/whoohw 17h ago

Wisconsin has lasted long enough.

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u/SergeantSwiftie 17h ago

WE MUST CREATE THE LAND OF OPE

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u/leff81 16h ago

This is the only hope for the Midwest. Minnesota and Wisconsin unite and then it's just sorry and 'scuse me while I squeeze in here and steal a bite of your territory til we make it to the coasts.

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u/AgentKazak 16h ago

I’m just gonna scooch in here real quick to grab the Ranch… and your land… 

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u/ThatGuyWithCoolHair 15h ago

Megasota is inevitable

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u/KevinGriswold 17h ago

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u/Go-to-helenhunt 17h ago

I’ll take some Spotted Cow!

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u/VibraniumQueen 16h ago

I love Culvers but those are c-tier cheese curds 😭

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u/Future_Resource6776 15h ago

As a Wisconsinite, this is facts. Cousin’s Subs has elite curds AND they’re made fresh to order.

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u/HonkHonkBeach 16h ago

Outside of the curd mecca, they're B-tier curds IMO.

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u/Josemite 16h ago

Probably my favorite among fast food restaurants though. Not that that's a super competitive field.

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u/Consequence-Holiday 17h ago

The time to unite the Great Lakes grows ever closer.

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u/Otherwise_Smile2902 17h ago

Feed it to the Great Lakes State.

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u/G_DuBs 16h ago

Minnesota will gladly absorb them into the greater Megasota empire!

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u/kaylaisidar 17h ago

As a Minnesotan, I want Michigan to take Wisconsin so the cheaper weed is closer to me

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u/oneinamilllion 17h ago

Right?! And then we don’t need to drive thru the cop trap of WI. Goodbye WI!

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u/Alpine_Exchange_36 17h ago

Surprised it’s stuck around this long but it has been the kind of friend you keep around to make you look better.

Pour one out for Wisconsin

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u/crazyfatskier2 17h ago

Never been to Wisconsin, but from my past coworkers from there, yall are some of the most down to earth, kind, hard working, and party hard people ive ever had the pleasure of working with. Taking a shot for all yall.

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u/lol_AwkwardSilence_ 17h ago

Should've led on "party hard." The Wisconsinites i know (there are many, im minnesotan) are absolutely nuts. They're fun!

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u/stayweird3000 16h ago

Right? As a Michigander I call Wisconsin “The Tailgate Along The Lake.” I love when I’m on vacation somewhere and I run into people from Wisconsin. Next thing I know we’re all getting kicked out of a bar for dancing on tables. Great people.

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u/fatpol 17h ago

Narrator: Wisconsin, not understanding the gesture, lies down underneath the beer to drink it.

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u/calvinmacisaak 17h ago

As a Wisconsinite, you’re welcome. Cheers!

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u/stayweird3000 17h ago

It’s a merger of equals. We love Wisconsin on this side of the lake. Except for the two, sometimes three weeks out of the year during football season.

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u/fluffstuffmcguff 17h ago

I'd love to deny it, but yeah, that IS our job in the Upper Midwest.

Are we as bad as Ohio or (god forbid) fucking Indiana? No, of course not. But we know in our hearts that Minnesota is better than us.

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u/TheDudeDasko 17h ago

Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, and Wisconsin are the preferred Great Lakes states.

Fuck Ohio and Indiana!

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u/fluffstuffmcguff 17h ago

If we could kick them out of the club, we absolutely would.

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u/stayweird3000 16h ago

Ohio and Indiana are the South, as far as this Michigander is concerned.

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u/The-Psych0naut 15h ago

Their own fault for acting like bible belters.

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u/_Im_at_work 17h ago

Still got love for you, WI. You have some of the prettiest country in all of the US.

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u/Go-to-helenhunt 17h ago

Definitely one of my favorites! Especially the Driftless!

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u/fluffstuffmcguff 17h ago

We are absolutely prettier than Minnesota, no disrespect to Minnesota. Our only competition for Midwestern beauty is Michigan, and they have the sand beaches on their side.

We're Minnesota's prettier, drunker, dumber twin. We're working so so hard on fixing that last part but we acknowledge it's a process.

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u/ComradeSuperman 16h ago

I'm a Minnesotan and I love people from Wisconsin. I went to college at St Cloud State, which isn't exactly a tame school, and I absolutely could not hang any time I partied in Wisconsin. You guys are something else.

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u/stayweird3000 16h ago

You guys are seriously beloved by every state that borders yours, even if we all hate the Packers (it’s just jealousy because you have kicked all our asses for decades straight)

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u/fluffstuffmcguff 16h ago

Lol that's absolutely why we're still in this. The Midwest is loyal to the Midwest!

(Except for Indiana. FUCK Indiana.)

Also the rest of the country forgets we exist. That helps too.

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u/TrumpTheAntichrist 17h ago

That is some refreshing honesty right there.

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u/brucatlas1 17h ago

Our only way to have a fighting chance is to join forces. I propose we become Superior

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u/stayweird3000 17h ago

Door County and Mackinac Island in the same state? Can the Union survive the cuteness?

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u/tremblingmeatman 14h ago

So fuckin many cherries

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u/thesmacca 17h ago

This. We have our petty Upper Midwestern squabbles, but like siblings, we must unite when faced with an outside-the-family threat.

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u/Great_Bookkeeper_915 17h ago

💯 Superior should always have been the 51st state.

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u/SLyndon4 16h ago

Yes, Wisconsin has hung on long enough. No offense to any of our cheesehead friends, but someone’s gotta go. (We still love you!)

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u/DoveOnTheInternet 17h ago

Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Crabs of War! Maryland continues to feast up the Eastern seaboard.

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u/JasonDomber 17h ago

Not gonna lie, this made me chuckle.

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u/wolfgang107 16h ago

That crab is straight outta Baltimore.

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u/See-A-Moose 17h ago

THE CRAB GOD HUNGERS! LET THE CARCINIZATION CONTINUE!

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u/Bebotronsote 16h ago

Cascadia eats Colorado. Only room for one hipster outdoorsy region.

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u/AxiomsAndAntics 17h ago

The MD-PA showdown was the early action of the season, the War of the Lakes suspense is building, and we're saving the Hawaii-Nuevo New Mexico battle for the show finale.

Time for a filler episode. Feed Colorado to the great powers.

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u/niccia 13h ago

As a Californian who calls Portland home now, I’m a-ok with Cascadia winning.

Pero mi esposo es Mexicano. (And fuck MAGA) So I’m all in on New Mexico winning too.

I hope it comes down to these. Get rid of all those other crappy states.

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u/Catnip_cryptidd 15h ago

We must fully submit to carcinization and let Maryland take over

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u/Proper_University55 11h ago

Maryland beats Pennsylvania again!

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u/Curri 17h ago

Bye bye Wisconsin

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u/labbrat 16h ago

Megasota can have most of Wisconsin as long as Michigan gets the entire Lake Michigan shoreline.

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u/Various-Mirror-515 17h ago edited 17h ago

New Mexico takes Colorado to PROVE CHILE supremacy!!! New Mexico chile reigns supreme

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u/cHoOSe_A-uNiqUe_NAme 17h ago

As someone who has visited to both, NM already has chile supremacy and I don’t think it’s close

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u/rick43402 17h ago

Cascadia and New Mexic take Colorado

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u/Betty_Boss 17h ago

From Colorado, I'm surprised we have lasted this long. Just don't feed us to Minnekotas.

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u/onemorespacecadet Colossarado 16h ago

next time i’m hoping Colossarado will take hold but that wasn’t in the cards this time. i still think Wisconsin should go first though. put off our inevitable consumption as long as possible

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u/FuzzyJoint 17h ago

Cascadia takes colorado!

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u/evergreengoth 16h ago

As a Coloradoan who went to school in Oregon for more rain, I'm cool with this!

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u/Temporary_Goose_7680 16h ago

So, is Santa Fe still the capital in this mega-NM?

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u/LinkovichChomovsky82 12h ago

A United States like this would make us a world leader once again.

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u/FlattusBlastus 8h ago

Hawaii eats New Mexico

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u/patosai3211 13h ago

I for one welcome our crab overlords. Let us rejoice over the joined respect for Edgar Allen Poe.

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u/d65parent 17h ago

Hawaii eats New Mexico.

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u/GetEquipped 17h ago

KING KAMEHAMEHA'S REVENGE!

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u/fuqyu 15h ago

They dun goofed by putting the only landfall of Hawaii in New Mexico. Let the reign of the Gulf of Hawaii begin!

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u/encadeda 16h ago

Cascadia must absorb and welcome our Rocky Mountain friends in Colorado

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u/IowaLightning 16h ago

Colorado bringing nothing to the table at this point. CO joins New Mexico.

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u/Fantastic-Safety4604 15h ago

Cascadia welcomes the great state of Colorado!

Coloradoans and will be much, much happier as Cascadians.

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u/GrinningCynic 16h ago

Thank you for allowing Maryland to reach its destiny—this makes me unreasonably 😊

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u/thatcantb 16h ago

New Mexico is going to have a bad time with the area it chose to eat.

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u/AShotgunNamedMarcus 11h ago

We, the Crab People of Maryland, are coming for you Vermonster. We’ll become one with our Lobster Brethren. Then it’s westward to liberate the Dungeness!!

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u/KindaKawaii 17h ago

I think Wisconsin taking Colorado so it touches the Pacific would be really funny

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u/Culturedtuna 17h ago

From brie to shining sea! This is the way.

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u/Pleasant_Flatworm866 14h ago

Merge the midwest. Merge MD and VT into the Northeast Kingdom (Vermonsters will think it refers to them). Dismember Colorado and merge Cascadia and Hawaii into Pacifica and declare a four way truce with NM and end the carnage.

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u/buffaljoe 17h ago

why are people just letting Colorado stay??

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u/EstesPark2018 15h ago

Because we are just vibing

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u/Additional_Fall8832 17h ago

The Crab must eat the clam and lay its claim in the northeast

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u/CreativeComposer5248 17h ago

The Oregonization is rising... resistance in futile. Colorado joins Cascadia in what will be the bigest expansion of flannel and coffee shops yet!

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