Wednesday, 26 December 2007

How a strange geography professor tried to eliminate 12 of 50 USA states


In the 1970s, strange geography professor C. Etzel Pearcy proposed redrawing the borders of the US states, reducing them from 50 to 38. Each new state’s name was chosen to represent a physical of cultural aspect of each new territory. This realignment was supposed to be more ‘organic’ and more logical, as major population centres such as Kansas City would no longer be located in two different states. Needless to say, the idea never left the drawing board.


Found on this page of the South Dakota Magazine.

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