Every US state has at least one straight line segment for a border except for Hawaii (duh). Not in an infinitesimal way, they all have a long straight line somewhere.
Some of our borders are natural or caused by conflict like yours, but others are a bunch of politicians dividing land they’ve never seen. The squares are all the latter situation
It always bothered me that the USA has some weird internal borders. Why is it a line? Why? That is wrong on so many levels.
This post was made by the EU gang. 🇪🇺
The early colonies had some borders by longitude or latitude and we just kept on with it like the stubborn asses that we are.
Colorado: “Fuck rivers, we are going all in on latitude and longitude!”
Utah: “That sounds awesome, we are also going to go all in!”
Wyoming: “Fuck Utah!”
Bruh and I thought they can’t top the imperial system.
Okay I learned this one in elementary school when I was like 6. A lovely school called Hellgate Elementary.
Congress decided to follow the peaks of the Bitterroot range and the Continental divide. These high points created a barrier for travel.
https://mtbeyond.com/history/how-montana-got-its-shape/
Every US state has at least one straight line segment for a border except for Hawaii (duh). Not in an infinitesimal way, they all have a long straight line somewhere.
Some of our borders are natural or caused by conflict like yours, but others are a bunch of politicians dividing land they’ve never seen. The squares are all the latter situation
Europeans complaining about straight lines on a border when they made 2/3rds of the world have them.
Yes, but not on our territory. ;)