From an outside perspective, I’m not sure Alaska and the rest of the Pacific have much in common culturally. Same for various areas of the “Interior”.

“So it’s agreed, we’re all parts of the shire of the place of yew trees”

North: aye

South: sure

West: sounds good

East: but what if we tried to be more precise (accuracy be damned apparently)

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West: you’ve been hanging out with the boob hill people, haven’t you?

I’m fine with treating the lower 48 like this, but the Great Lakes did nothing to deserve their erasure!

I think most of this is going over my head, but I’m especially trying to wrap my head around The Midland exclaves for San Francisco, El Paso, and Tallahassee.

Sexico sounds like what Zapp Brannigan would say is his hometown

Took me a minute but I think I finally see it, or at least two of them. First thing I noticed trying to see it though, if you tilt your head to the left, the area around the Bay of Bengal looks like a dinosaur with an underbite spitting at Australia.

Oh right, Cuzco. The Cuzco Valley, the valley named specifically for Cuzco, Cuzco’s Valley.

Too many options for my American brain to comprehend, but congrats on becoming a multicolored beehive