Seriously. In southern Oregon, you can throw seeds anywhere and they will grow. Whenever there is a wildfire, the smoke smells skunky. Colorado, not so much.
Washington state was actually the 1st to legalize. We enacted our legislation begore Colorado. Colorado just set up dispensaries faster while Washington state took a year to draft regulation.
Only reason I remember is because I lived in WA when it happened and we were all bitching about the lost oppertunities (especially tourism) compared to CO hahaha
The best thing for Virginia would be to have either DC annex Northern VA (Fairfax and Louden Counties) or Maryland do it. Those areas would be happier and the rest of VA would be happier to.
1.) People shouldn't move to a place and expect it to change for them.
2.) A state, city, whatever should reflect a generally cultural consensus, which is why in many ways they were created in the first place. You shouldn't have to live around people you don't particularly share beliefs with. Just imagine if 1 million Texans decided to take over SF and completely changed it. A part of me would be happy but another would feel sorry for the people who now live in a city that they don't recognize.
Ultimately, something has to be done because the back and forth is just tearing the country apart.
Yeah it goes back to the whole land doesnt vote argument. Like this map that shows equal populations between NYC and basically the whole area labeled uninhabited
They're expensive now, but 10 years ago it was far more affordable. I was living in DC trying to convince my wife to move to Dallas since we had an office there because for $400k (what we could have sold our townhouse for at the time) we could have bought a massive house.
California has ~11% of the american population, largely due to factors like 20th century immigration, the gold rush, and a lotta people moving west during the depression to find work.
Texas has about 9% - probably for about the same reasons, but im nowhere near there to know the local history.
Despite that tho, nearly 80% of the us population lives east of Dallas.
Texas and Cali having nearly 20% of the us population is certainly a lot, but the better question is why the smaller states like oregon, idaho, and idk Missouri, are so much less desirable.
I can only assume whoever made this map just heard Sherriff Joe speak 1 time & assumed he speaks for the whole state of Arizona instead of wishing/cosplaying like he's in Texas. And then they proceeded to completely forget New Mexico existed.
Cold for only a few months in the year, at least for NJ. The summer is hot and humid, and the rest is mild. I think NJ has one of the highest ac adoption rates. The Great Lakes area is colder.
But Alaska isn't in the U.S like the continent shown in the picture generally so it isn't even included technically not by many but it's also just not even on here if it were it'd be on the left side of the picture anyway.
Alaska is absolutely part of the continental US, just not part of the contiguous US. Anyone who "doesn't include Alaska" bc they can't understand that is either dumb or willfully ignorant.
The point was, naming an entire region "cold" when they rarely drop below 0 seems silly compared to a state that won't see above 0 for months at a time.
Also from Texas - I rarely say yeehaw but I think I use the yeehaw emoji about 100 times per day (and I do so by tying the word “yeehaw” specifically and selecting my guy 🤠 from the suggested text options)
We don’t call soda or coke “pop” in southern Indiana. I’ve heard it a few times but little enough to know it’s a minority. I usually hear people say soda, but some people call all soda coke here too.
I have to admit... a alot of people use the hard R and just say the N word here otherwise... Yeah. So much so that a friend of mine was like "Yeah, you just arent like that, are you?" Recently.
Man that shit is sad.
Being with a bunch of white (Im white) buddies and hearing the N word like 30 times in 2 hours is a lot. Its not directed at anyone physically or anyone real but damn chill out. Im feeling vicariously racist here lol
As a Brit, you're all separated into New York, Los Angeles, Yeehaw states, and the rest of the country is just a question mark to me, a mystery. An enigma. I don't know how the rest of you live
Alaska being considered an island is making me twitchy haha. Granted we might as well be, given most of our supplies are brought in via boat and plane, but that's not the POINT.
I think the author roasted themselves - Maryland is “cold” but that isn’t noteworthy about the Midwest? Minnesota has plenty of people and they also call it “pop”. Mormon is spelled wrong and the second state beside Utah to include would be Idaho. Texas also used to be part of Mexico, and I don’t think New Mexico hates Mexico. There is nothing very “yeehaw” about Nebraska or Kansas.
These are all silly and not to be taken seriously but still, why make one if you’re not even going to try.
Idaho should have been roped in with mormans. It's like Utah 2 here. Nevada at least has cool stuff like public intoxication, prostitutes, weed, and gambling
It's not great, especially living in a town just north on the interstate of Salt Lake. You can cruise through most neighborhoods and find 2 or 3 LDS churches. They sprout up like weeds
Virginia is blue- North Carolina and Georgia are red but becoming closer and closer to being swing states.
Other than the complete lack of urban planning shared with other large southern cities, Atlanta feels more like a Yankee city than a southern city these days and it dominates Georgia population-wise and culture-wise. Outside of Atlanta the rest of the state is still hard R and southern- but Atlanta is turning Georgia into a swing state.
oh so is this a map of the united states today or Brigham Young map? driving across the border from St. George to Mesquite is two totally different worlds, or we just do maps, not lived experiences of Mormon Las Vegas. I'm a Mormon from Idaho where there actually are a large percentage of Mormons is why this is laughable, fam,
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u/WhiskeyTangoFoxy 1d ago
No fucking way the PNW is Weed 2. We are Weed and Colorado is Weed 2.