And South Dakota has declared North Dakota to be North South Dakota
In response, North Dakota has challenged South Dakota to a duel. If North Dakota wins, both states will be combined into The state of ‘Dakota’.
Skip the duel, combine them and maybe Montana and Wyoming.
Absolute Unit
If North Dakota wins, both states will be combined into The state of ‘North Dakota’.
And Nebraska will be renamed South Dakota. Then the process repeats. Until the entire earth is Dakota.I think the United States of Jersey would have something to say about that.
Naah. There is only one real Dakota and the other is the imposter that needs to change the name.
Fanning?
honestly as a non-American, this would unironically make things less confusing: the largest city on that lake is Chicago and I always have to consciously remember “that city is in Illinois, but the lake it is on is called Lake Michigan”.
Illinois has a pretty small coastline with it though. Michigan and Wisconsin completely dwarf Illinois’s coast on the lake (and Michigan by a lot)
Yup, I realize that too when looking at a map of it. Still, the only place on that lake I can name off the top of my head is Chicago and several times in my life already, my brain already went “and that’s on Lake Michigan, so it’s in Michiga– no, riiiiiight, it’s in Illinois”.
How could you forget about the famous trash city of gary Indiana?
There’s a Vault that’s just bursting with employees of the Gary Dept of tourism. They’re weird.
I name the lakes based on their names and not cities near them. Always have. Lake Superior. No big city. Lake Huron. Port Huron? They’re massive bodies of water. Not ponds. They stand on their own.
California should declare Lake Tahoe to be called Tahoe Tahoe.
Use this opportunity to retake the Baja Peninsula.
Use this opportunity to retake
the Baja PeninsulaAlta California.
Lake on California side
Tahoe on Nevada side
(It’ll look right on certain maps)
Well the same logic that makes it the golf of America makes it the Californian Ocean.
All faulty logic, but from their perspective, it should be the same
I declare AOC to be Queen AOC.
No, just no…
Too late, they declared it.
Do you think if the major cities started calling the interstates the blue lines it could fight congestion?
If you want to find a blue city, follow an interstate, a red one, hop off.
To the people reporting this: Yes, it’s a prank by the governor. But he really did so it, even as a prank, and the news covered it. So the story can stay.
I feel in reaction Indiana will rename Michigan City, Michigan will reclaim the Toledo strip, and Ohio will Ohio.
Ohio will Ohio
You mean rename it after another famous place, but misspell/mispronounce it?
And Hell, Michigan stays the same I assume.
Hell is frozen right now, so it’s hard to say what’s underneath all that snow.
As a Michigander I declare Illinois is now South Michigan
As a fellow statesman, I would like to propose that we ready ourselves for war. Surely we can take Illinois of all places, right? Maybe we can get a Lower peninsula to go with our upper, seems like that’s what happens when we get really pissed up here.
Ohio is Underland
Lake Erie will become Lake LeBron.
In other news, Lake Erie is still haunted by ghost pirates that nobody cares about.
As a Michigander, I’m going to guess it’s just all the meth Ohio does and not actual pirates.
It’s those iron pirates again….
I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the sound of this Ohio Buckeyes championship!!!
Ugh, classic whataboutism. You’re probably the commenter in every great lakes thread saying, “bUt whAT AbOuT thE laKE eRiE gHOSt PiRatEs?”
People can care about Lake Michigan and Lake Erie ghost pirates at the same time–this post just isn’t the time and place to center them in the conversation.
Poor guys. 🥲
The tragedy of the Edmund Fitzgerald -shakes head-
UK declares US to be called “United Colonies”
The “Revolting Colonies”.
“The Sort of United Colonies Kingdom” or The SUCK
Wait, we can just declare shit? This changes everything.
Shut up,
ThtevenThefartographer II! I declare “shit”SHIT!
There has also been no word on if the state of Indiana was consulted.
Glad to see the reporter having some fun with this.
No mention of Ohio. Like it should be.
Idaho is now YOUdaho
Uranus is now OURanus.
Always has been.
Uranus Mychoice
The proclamation has been forwarded to Google to ensure the world’s maps reflect this momentous change
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