• AFK BRB Chocolate
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    517 months ago

    It’s where the Mississippi River was at the time (and still largely is). It’s not like someone just drew it that way.

    • The Picard ManeuverOP
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      507 months ago

      I believe it’s actually because Tennessee became a state in 1796, but rulers weren’t invented until 1797.

      • @Death_Equity
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        97 months ago

        Rulers were invented like 3,000 years before that.

        It is a funny picture to think of some Tennessee hillbilly surveyor with a 1ft ruler trying to count out the border though.