The fact that we ’ve kept the number of U.S. country relatively static is nothing inadequate a miracle — there have been hundreds of attempts at state secession over the years . But what if they had all succeeded ? This brilliant mathematical function depicts that alternative creation , where the U.S. is come apart up into 124 different states that extend from ocean - to - shining - sea .
The map come to us thanks to the work of a Mansfield University geographics professor namedAndrew Shears , who describes the work as a piece of alternate chronicle ( “ NOT a proposal ” ):
Most of my sprightliness , I ’ve daydream about history — not so much the unbelievable astuteness of historical event that have already occurred , well thought process as that might be . No , I ’ve incessantly fictionalized history by changing the event of one event here and there and explore the possibilities of what would have come next . Sometimes I come up with some dead derisory advance on these alternative timelines of whole new worlds base on relatively minor changes .
Shears ’ map shew each and every attempt at sezession along with the boundaries these drift intended to limit up , let in Independent Long Island , which would ’ve break up it from New York , and South Florida , which would ’ve protected Miami from the quietus of the state ( wise move ) . Then there are those that partially , or temporarily , see success : Like the State of Franklin , which existed for four and a one-half year before collapsing in 1789 .
And consider the mayhem make for by country like Franklin , we ’re lucky that so few of them succeeded . Of naturally , then there are more selfish grounds to be happy for the mathematical function that is today . Imagine get to memorize 74 more land Washington in score schooltime . [ Washington Post;Andrew Shears ]
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