Rules:

  • You could add or remove states.

Outcomes:

  • What impact would the new borders have?
    • kersploosh
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      46 days ago

      The hard part is deciding the criteria for what constitutes a major city. Some places are easy: cities like Las Vegas or Kansas City don’t have any large, competing population centers nearby. But would Sacramento be considered a major city, or would it be under San Francisco’s umbrella?

      Some small cities like Fargo or Bismarck are still significant population centers relative to their regions. Would they be independent or fall within the state of a larger but very distant city like Minneapolis?

      • @[email protected]
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        46 days ago

        One could use population as the generator weight.

        Perhaps for all incorporated cities/towns/whatever then do a higher order application to group those.

          • HubertManne
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            36 days ago

            I like the chicago teapot but seems wierd detroit has part of the penisula and then milwaukee has part across the lake.

            • kersploosh
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              6 days ago

              They should trade that blue tip of the UP to Milwaukee, and in exchange Detroit gets all of the mitten.

              • HubertManne
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                26 days ago

                I think the thing is that there are a bunch of summer homes on that side of the lake but the tip of the penisula has a very low population. Thats my guess anyway. Still if thats the case you would still thing milwaukee would get the whole penisula and the bite they take out of the mitten would be made smaller.

      • @[email protected]M
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        36 days ago

        You’d definitely have to answer some questions like “How many states do we want?”, but Fargo/Bismarck would just become the centers of counties if they don’t make the cut for being separate states.

    • @[email protected]
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      36 days ago

      Oooh that’s neat. Using the Manhattan distance makes for a slightly nicer set of borders.