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#1: Corey Beaudoin (red) on Mar 31, 2008

No it is not. The white stripes should be red and vice versa. Also you have 63 stars not 50

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You can have all the cowboy provinces as far as me
PEI is yours
but I'll keep Ontario cause we need to have someone to hate ( just kidding)

I'm not certain which ones are the cowboy Provinces but thank you for your generosity. ;-)

Hey! whats wrong with Cowboys?

manitoba,saskaschewan and alberta

nothing wrong with cowboy but sometime you have to choose

By the way its 10 provinces and 3 territory not 13 provinces

I'm sure that it was a tough choice Sylvain and I do so appreciate your thoughtful consideration. :-)

Yes I was aware that there weren't enough Provinces. I'm still not certain as to what we should do... ;-)

Division, I think. Northern California has long wanted to secede from Southern California. And as long as we are busting up oversized states, we should split West Texas from East Texas though every Texan living and dead would hate that. We'll console them by splitting Alaska into even smaller bits, although there is probably no geographically sound way to do it without having some bits with populations like 17. Four of those folks will have to move to Washington DC to be Senators and Representatives, which will reduce the population to lucky 13. And then, just to show that we aren't discriminating against big states, we'll split Rhode Island into Northwest Rhode Island, Northeast Rhode Island, Southwest Rhode Island, and Southeast Rhode Island. This will drive map makers wacky as they try to fit all those long names into tiny bits of maps.

How long have you been devising this plan Jan? You provide excellent suggestions.

The Northern California secession is a great idea (then again, you KNEW that I wouldn't have a problem with that). That gives us 1.

I think that Texas is big enough for a 4 way division. And that would give us 3 additional States.

Since you bring up the issue of representation, Rhode Island might be very happy with the divide. Another 3.

Why not throw Florida into the mix? Say we divide somewhere between Orlando and Kissimmee. 1 more state.

Now Alaska's split would be a little less extreme for the remaining 5. However, with global warming and the Polar Bears' possible migration to Anchorage, Alaska just might kick up a fuss. In which case, we should seriously consider taking a snippet off the southeast corner of zippity Utah and a skosh from Wisconsin.

I'm in favor of keeping cartographers employed. What with the slow down in space exploration the only new place left to map is the remainder of the ocean floor.

Can you bring tofu to the bbq on PEI this summer?

You can do whatever you want on PEI I heard they got great potato there but only that

As long as you're there Sylvain it will be a great time. :)

lol. great discussion for such a boring puzzle...I've done so many of these US flags. You could also divide up Massachusetts, Colorado, Idaho, and hmmm... Maine.

Hmmm. I don't know Massachusetts or Idaho well enough to know how to split them.

Maine is obvious. You split off the coast, which used to be cool but is now 100% tourist traps and outlet malls, and call it "LLBeantopia(tm)".

Colorado? That's a hard one. Geographically it might make sense to split it right along I-25. But Colorado is just a random rectangle of western countryside anyway, so trying to do any geographically meaningful division seems like a departure from the founding theme of the state. So I think the best thing would be to split it into two equal triangles with a diagonal line drawn from the southwest corner to the northeast corner. Then it could be used to prove the pythagorian theorem (or disprove it actually, as it only works on a plane, not a sphere). This diagonal is superior to the other because it will convert "Four Corners" into "Five Corners" and it puts Denver and Colorado Springs into two separate states.

Do you know, as long as we are redrawing state boundary lines, I think we should make them fully-interlocking. I used to love my United States jigsaw puzzle as a kid, but it had the disadvantages that the pieces didn't stick together very well without a frame. So instead of all these straight line borders and river borders, we should have some good old-fashioned jigsaw puzzle tongue and socket borders. I think would do wonders for the unity of the nation.

Lol Jan. I absolutely agree on your jigsaw approach to uniting this nation. That's a great plan!

lol Jan..I have thought the same thing in the past :)

lol. great plan. lol

Well I say we disown Pennsylvania (Sorry to anyone who lives there) I got lost there once and the people in teh welcome center weren't very nice or helpful.

sorry to hear that. I have only been to Philadelphia and don't really remember talking to anyone...I went to the art museum and that's all.

I don't know what town we were in or anything. My GPS told us to stay on the road we were on and it took us to PA. Funny thing is, we started in New York and we live in New York. I would think the thing would keep us in New York. And then since neither one of us has any sense of direction, when we saw signs for the Pennsylvania Welcome Center, we were hoping there was a Pennsylvania, New York. (why not? There's a Florida, New York)

lol...and a Paris, Idaho... but if you're trying to drive to Paris, you're outta luck.

I am sorry but this flag is terrible. Please revamp. How hard can it be to get this right?

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Also, (a la comments 1 and 2,) the stripes are supposed to be of equal width. The second white stripe from the bottom is one pixel wide, all the others are two pixels wide.

We can also pick up Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, and American Samoa.

Jan, reading your comments back on Aug. 25, 2008...you could easily split the state of Maine. Just make Aroostook County its own state. It takes up the top 1/3 of the state and only has potatoes and pine forests anyway.

And as far as the puzzle piece boundaries, I like the idea...although these days I don't think anything will reunite the country again. AARRGGHH!

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