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1. I also think of Cairo, how far south it is. It's about 150 miles from Memphis! And it's in the same state as Chicago. Illinois seems further north than it is because it's so Chicago-centric.
2. The census classes WV as the 'South'. East Liverpool, far northern WV, is the same latitude as Manhattan!
3. Ohio and PA are the only thing separating Dixie from Canada.
4. Just how far west El Paso is, it's firmly in the Southwest. It's the same distance to LA as Houston.
5. That Oklahoma has a border with Colorado - most forgotten border in the US?
6. That NYC, biggest city in the US, is mostly on islands.
7. Crescent City, CA is almost the latitude of Boston. You think of California as warm, sunny and southern and Boston as cold and northern, but yep, they're the same latitude! Kind of like NYC and Naples.
8. That Virginia actually goes further west than West Virginia.
9. Florida is as wide as it is long (thanks to the Panhandle).
10. Just the shape of Maryland - it looks like it's cut into two pieces. Also how the 'Delmarva' Peninsula is covered by two states.
11. How the bigger Kansas City is in Missouri, not Kansas.
Actually, East Liverpool is in Ohio. Chester, West Virginia may well be at the same latitude as Manhattan.
1. I also think of Cairo, how far south it is. It's about 150 miles from Memphis! And it's in the same state as Chicago. Illinois seems further north than it is because it's so Chicago-centric.
2. The census classes WV as the 'South'. East Liverpool, far northern WV, is the same latitude as Manhattan!
3. Ohio and PA are the only thing separating Dixie from Canada.
4. Just how far west El Paso is, it's firmly in the Southwest. It's the same distance to LA as Houston.
5. That Oklahoma has a border with Colorado - most forgotten border in the US?
6. That NYC, biggest city in the US, is mostly on islands.
7. Crescent City, CA is almost the latitude of Boston. You think of California as warm, sunny and southern and Boston as cold and northern, but yep, they're the same latitude! Kind of like NYC and Naples.
8. That Virginia actually goes further west than West Virginia.
9. Florida is as wide as it is long (thanks to the Panhandle).
10. Just the shape of Maryland - it looks like it's cut into two pieces. Also how the 'Delmarva' Peninsula is covered by two states.
11. How the bigger Kansas City is in Missouri, not Kansas.
Delmarva has 3 states Delaware Maryland, and Virginia
Yep, you can see all four states from Willis Tower. You can see across the lake on a clear day.
South Carolina has four classes in public high school sports. 4A to 1A, and for several seasons, James Island and West Ashley, despite being less than 15 miles apart, they were in different regions (one of many examples).
Bluffton High School (near Hilton Head) was in the SC 3A state championship in football this year at Clemson. The Georgia Dome in Atlanta, where the GA state championships are held, is closer. Bluffton to Clemson is only 20 miles closer than Bluffton to Orlando.
Memphis (SW corner) and the Tri-Cities (NE corner) is just over 500 miles. Memphis (bottom part of TN) is over 500 miles from Chicago, over 700 miles from Cleveland (just for reference), which you would have to pass to get to Canada, with many more miles to go.
The supposedly pancake flat states of Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Kansas have larger differences in elevation than the allegedly mountainous states of West Virginia, Vermont, and Pennsylvania, respectively.
Not only that, but the tallest points in Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Kansas are higher than the tallest points in West Virginia, Vermont, and Pennsylvania.
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Whoever mentioned the Mason-Dixon line also needs to be aware that Indy would be to the south of that line as well
That's not true, and you know that.
In fact, 90 percent of the Indianapolis metropolitan area is north of that latitude; same with Denver. All of the cities I mentioned were completely south of the line, not partially or mostly south.
it has the 2nd greatest range in elevation (after Texas) than any other state east of the Rocky Mountain front range: 6700' down to sea level.
I was sligtly incorrect about one fact: of the 54 peaks east of the Mississippi taller than 6000 feet, all but two (and not one) are partially or entirely within the borders of NC. Mt Washington in New Hampshire, and Mt Leconte in Tennessee are the TWO exceptions. Still, the tallest and most rugged part of the Appalachians are to be found in western North Carolina.
The Ouachita, The Ozarks, The Appalachians (from Alabama all the way to New Brunswick), Newfoundland, the Atlas and Anti-Atlas Mountains (in Algeria and Morrocco), the highlands of Scotland, and the mountain range the defines the border between Norway and Sweden are the shattered remnants of a once MUCH larger (Andes, if not Himalaya-sized) mountain range older than the Atlantic Ocean.
The rifting that created the Atlantic - which continues at the undersea Mid-Atlantic Ridge - shattered the range, and split pieces of it onto 3 continents. Due to Africa's collision with Europe, the Atlas are the only part of the range that is still growing. The stress (to the crust of the earth) of that rifting explains the enormous mass of ancient, ancient volcanic rock that underlies New Hampshire's White Mountains, as well.
From Ironwood MI you can be to Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Illionois, Indiana, Nebraska and Missouri in less miles than Detroit.
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