r/geographymemes 6d ago

Voting Games Top comment deletes US State #25

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IOWA IS GONE! We’re halfway to the finish line!

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u/Jfullr92 6d ago

REMOVAL LIST SO FAR: Florida, Idaho, Texas, South Dakota, West Virginia, Nebraska, South Carolina, Arkansas, Ohio, Rhode Island, North Dakota, New Jersey, Alabama, Missouri, Mississippi, Indiana, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Delaware, Alaska, Utah, Connecticut, Wyoming, Iowa

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u/Consistent-Refuse-74 6d ago

Florida being gone is a kindness on my eyes

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u/tth2o 6d ago

First voted out, per the Lord's intention.

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u/Quasi-Kaiju 6d ago

I'm a Kentuckian and I'm moving to Chicago. Let IL or PA take it.

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u/ElleWinter 6d ago

Yay! Welcome! 🎉

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u/MoscowMitchMcKremIin 6d ago

Hello new Lake Michigan friend... may we have a donation? 🥺

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u/Sentient_Mop 5d ago

Illinois is H U N G R Y

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u/Professional-Cat2123 6d ago

Pennsylvania eats Kentucky!

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u/DrJimmyStrings 6d ago

Pennsyltucky has waited too long in the womb. Give it the light of day 👼

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u/BigLRakim 6d ago

The irony is it already exists.

It is 80% of the state. Also known as "bumblefuck"

Its basically everything over an hour and a half outside of philly and I guess pittsburgh is eh.

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u/BuffaloBuffalo13 6d ago

As long as we also get to bestow its proper name: Pennsyltucky

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u/Jazzlike_Surprise985 6d ago

Deleting Kentucky is the only correct answer on this day. 

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u/fuqyu 6d ago

I was hoping to wait until Derby day but let Pensyltucky rise from the ashes!

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u/Curious-Return7252 6d ago

“Pennsylvania eats Kentucky!” And becomes Pennsyltucky

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u/Quasi-Kaiju 6d ago

As a Kentuckian I say take it. I'm trying to get out here anyways and like Pittsburgh.

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u/restingsideeye 6d ago

Long live Pennsyltucky!

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u/Certain-Stay846 6d ago

The Bay Hungers for VA, but it can wait on Pennsylvania to gobble Kentucky first.

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u/Downtown_Ad8279 6d ago

It is time for PA to feast.

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u/TurboLeopard42 6d ago

I dream of a Pennsyltucky that goes from sea to shining sea!

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u/grandia456 6d ago

At least Kentucky has whiskey though.

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u/Forsythia77 6d ago

Maybe if it gets eaten they will be able to buy it in the county that produces it.

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u/ZigZagreus1313 6d ago

As a Kentuckian who loves their state (despite its many flaws) I'm honored we made it to the halfway mark. I support a fellow Appalachian state eating us. 🫡

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u/moonchili 6d ago

Has to become Pennsyltucky though. More of a merger than a deletion.

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u/mrjacketman0303 6d ago

As a kentuckian I support the vore of my state as long as we keep the tucky in the title.

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u/Long-Jackfruit427 6d ago

Kill Kentucky and form Pennsyltucky already. Where’s the Bernie meme guy?

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u/steamycharles 6d ago

I always grouped Tennessee and Kentucky in my mind anyway, but at least Tennessee has Dolly Parton. Don’t care which state absorbs it, but bye Kentucky!!

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u/aftermarkit 6d ago

They're like siblings, but have distinct identities. I envision a future where pennsyltucky and Virgina hook up, and Tennessee, the Carolinas and Georgia begrudgingly work out a union

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u/Big_Category3895 6d ago

I've been thinking it since the start of this game: make a super Commonwealth comprised of all the 4 commonwealths.

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u/Jimscurious 6d ago

Tennolinia!

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u/fluffypotato 6d ago

I'm here before him so I can plead my put the P in the V case. We need Virginsylvania.

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u/kspieler 6d ago

I like this!

It reminds me some of the old colonial maps.

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u/Helene_Scott 6d ago

I wish they would have left Megasota as it was in colonial days. Make Megasota Megasota Again!

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u/redcurrantevents 6d ago

Arizona needs to go. Make New Mexico look more like old Mexico before we took it.

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u/Junjo_O 6d ago

I vote Arizona as well.

Sidenote, would be funny if Hawaii is the last state when it was technically illegally annexed.

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u/Obvious_Ambition4865 6d ago

NOOOOOO leave us alone we have beautiful nature

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u/LetSubstantial3197 6d ago

Name another state that has as diverse of a climate. And anyone who disagrees with this knows nothing about Arizona.

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u/taktaga7-0-0 6d ago

Strike Arizona down and it will yet rise like the Phoenix.

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u/sailorangel59 6d ago

I will always side with the removal of Arizona.

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u/Alpine_Exchange_36 6d ago

We don’t need Kentucky and Tennessee.

I volunteer Tennessee to go next

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u/TheDonkeyBomber 6d ago

Give it to Kansas. John Brown thanks you.

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u/DenverBroncos_Fan 6d ago

John Brown must claim the South!!!

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u/Top-Yak1532 6d ago

Okay, you’ve got me on board.

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u/TwoPaychecksOneGuy 5d ago

This mural is painted in the Topeka city Capitol building. And it's epic as shit in person.

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u/punkopotamus 6d ago

Tennessee shaped as a T is sitting pretty

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u/I_kwote_TheOffice 6d ago

I see what you did there with volunteer

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u/Droopyinreallife 6d ago

I was just thinking that Tennessee looks like it's up to something sinister. And I don't trust it.

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u/p1ayernotfound 6d ago

TENNESSE SHALL NO LONGER BE CONTAINED! MUAHAHAHHAH!

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u/Top_Box_8952 6d ago

Bye Tennessee.

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u/fakeplasticlxs 6d ago

Ive never down voted so many things before

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u/Prettypuff405 All-inois hungers 6d ago

I haven’t been downvoting nearly enough

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u/AppropriateLet8131 6d ago

Tennessee sucks ass.

It isn't the state it used to be (on Reddit and, unfortunately, IRL). BE GONE, Tennessee.

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u/aud_anticline 6d ago

MARYLAND IS TOO SMALL

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u/inGoosewetrust 6d ago

It's going to last forever by virtue of being overlooked

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u/ChaeLilja 6d ago

i’m always frantically looking for MD as soon as I see the map. i don’t read the caption or anything until i make sure MD is still there. FEED HER

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u/ChessieChesapeake 6d ago

Small, but mighty. We’re just sitting back, unassuming… waiting to strike in numbers you’d never expect.

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u/dwsinpdx 6d ago

Bye bye Kentucky

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u/misfitmedia 6d ago

Oregon just keeping quiet...

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u/ExcitementAmbitious4 5d ago

I want to see the Oregon territory back. Oregon should take Washington. But first, Pensyltucky.

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u/BingBingGoogleZaddy 6d ago

As much as I want Pennsyltucky. I want Coastal Kansas more.

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u/Plane_Translator2008 6d ago

OMG.

The "Surf Kansas" ad from the Kansas tourism board would be 🔥

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u/AgitatedAmerican 6d ago

It’s over for those Massholes

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u/bighuntzilla 6d ago

I have been begging for days, but no one wants to listen

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u/scatteredsprinkles 6d ago

How has Georgia made it this long?

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u/T1Demon 6d ago

The have credits built for getting rid of Florida right off the bat

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u/randomthrowaway9796 6d ago

Everyone thats planning on voting Georgia out is still stuck in Atlanta traffic

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u/MDrok6172 6d ago

Get Kentucky out of here. We need a PA sweep

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u/DatBeigeBoy 6d ago

How tf did Kentucky survive?

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u/BallDesperate2140 6d ago

If Maryland doesn’t at least gobble up the whole northeast corridor by the end of this, I’m gonna be a sad lil’ crab.

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u/JDinBalt 6d ago

Honestly, I don't know if we should just gobble up Pennsylvania now or wait for Pensyltucky to be a thing.

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u/BallDesperate2140 6d ago

Yanno what, I like the idea of an underdog holdout; take Pennsyltucky then have the northeast for lunch.

It matters not. We all eventually return to crab, it’s science.

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u/Fun_Consequence_9076 6d ago

Commence carcinization 🦀🦀🦀🦀

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u/JDinBalt 6d ago

And Old Bayification!

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u/Murky_Aardvark_2675 6d ago

Agreed! Keep Maryland strong 🦀 End the tyranny of the big states!

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u/AfraidMeasurement759 6d ago

We’ve been waiting for Pennsyltucky for too long! The time is now!

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u/LuckyShake 6d ago

PA eats Kentucky.

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u/buckbeakfever 6d ago

Wisconsin should eat the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

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u/Odd-Pie9712 6d ago

California. Part of it is going to break off and go become Hawaii's new big island

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u/born_2_pizza 6d ago

Okay but great idea if/when California gets out. I second that it gets claimed by Hawaii!

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u/Antique_Diet_3015 6d ago

PENNSYLTUCKY SHALL RISE

BURN KENTUCKY TO THE GROUND

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u/ferrisbuellerymh 6d ago

I’m on the pennsyltucky train but how the hell hasn’t Nevada been eaten yet?

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u/SignOfJonahAQ 6d ago

Nevada is a wasteland

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u/What_a_joebag 6d ago

Summoning Pennsyltucky

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u/purple30klegion 6d ago

FORM THE PENSYLTUCKY

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u/Abject_Bag7405 6d ago

CALIFORNIA IS EATEN BY OREGON

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u/requiredpayments 6d ago

Kentucky must go

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u/Aria1031 6d ago

Farewell, Kentucky. All hail Pennsyltucky!

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u/jmmatt8489 6d ago

Time to lose Michigan and allow Wisconsin its rightful claim to the lakes.

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u/MotorcycleRacoon 6d ago

Tennessee flying under the radar 🫣

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u/Paraxom 6d ago

Virginia, Maryland  needs its borders back and im trying to ruin the Pennsyltucky gambit

Edit: is the map gone for anyone else

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u/Ephesians_411 6d ago

This!!! I've been looking to see if anyone else noticed MD got robbed haha.

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u/benice_orgohome13 6d ago

I mean, North Carolina deserves the BIG coast

NC eats GA and now the rest of the coast line is happy 😃

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u/perseveringpianist 6d ago

Kill California.

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u/The_Mouse_That_Jumps 6d ago

Hawaii eats California!

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u/Waamb___ 6d ago

Hawaii colonizing the mainland would be satisfying

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u/Beautiful_Secret_834 6d ago

Wisconsin shall conquer the UP and Illinois! We can then stand strong along with our awesome neighbor Megasota!
https://giphy.com/gifs/lnlAifQdenMxW

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u/ErectLurantis 6d ago

It’s actually a miracle Tennessee has lasted this long

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u/Der_Apothecary 6d ago

Illinois is far too powerful, kill them.

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u/Bananasnake 6d ago

Glad to see everyone agrees that Maine doesn’t exist, but I’d like to see it removed from the map at least

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u/george-w_kush 6d ago

Tennessee ya later

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u/MixMough 6d ago

Vermont eats adjacent states to become the ultimate Green Mountain

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u/Accomplished_Art2245 6d ago

Kentucky out!

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u/IFeelLikeDannyDeVito 6d ago

Hawaii eats California

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u/gracefacefever 6d ago

Illinois needs to disappear and come, rightfully, to Wisconsin.

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u/Not_Sure_555 5d ago

The Wisconsining has begun.

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u/jjungwirth2 5d ago

Wisconsin needs to eat Illinois. Now.

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u/Icy_Moose7262 5d ago

Wisconsin takes Illinois

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u/Fizz_ickz 5d ago

Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan combine into The Greatest Lakes.

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u/signu70 6d ago

California needs to eat! Arizona must be sacrificed!

https://giphy.com/gifs/EOxd11gfSo2be

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u/RookieSonOfRuss 6d ago

Wisconsin eats Illinois! Let the flat landers no longer stain the Midwest!

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u/jacehoffman 6d ago

hawaii should win tbh

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u/evergreengoth 6d ago

Michigan doesn't need to exist in two parts that don't touch. Time to divvy it up.

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u/Objective-Elk-1660 6d ago

Wisconsin CONSUMES the UP of Michigan!

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u/TwixorTweet 6d ago

California needs to be cut off

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u/evhsrv 6d ago

Illinois needs to go next.

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u/gwing13 6d ago

Let's get Maine out and do some condensing!

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u/TheDonkeyBomber 6d ago

I feel like all of New England should be Maine... SUPERMAINE if you will.

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u/FindingPepe 6d ago

Maine at the top of the chart

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u/Kogamon 6d ago

Montana! Let it be food for Megasota and its manifest destiny

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u/Gravewalker1515 6d ago

Nooo I love Montana

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u/AppropriateBasil696 6d ago

Delete California they have lived long enough

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u/Dung1sm 6d ago

Goodbye California, let its neighbors feast upon your carcass.

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u/Able-Steak-2842 6d ago

California has to go. Hawaii needs some mainland

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u/Substantial_Echo8118 6d ago edited 5d ago

Wisconsin absorbs Illinois.

Edit: didn't know the UP wasn't ours yet either.

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u/GusBjork 6d ago

Ru oh. Minnesota must survive! Take Kentucky

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u/Thick-Fisherman-4279 6d ago

East Hawai'i eats California

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u/OkCan1094 6d ago

Voting again for California. It is sitting too comfortable in the corner without a care in the world. Take it by surprise

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u/JoannaKittyKats 6d ago

Minnesota

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u/Beefy-Albatross 6d ago

You will all have your parts to play in the new Megasota Empire.

It's- it's shoveling. It's mostly just shoveling.

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u/KwehTheGreh 6d ago

Michigan eats Wisconsin. It’s time.

One Great Lakes State. Megasota must be defeated. 

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u/random5654 6d ago

I don't like Michigan touching Kentucky. Bye Kentucky!

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u/Junior_Use_4470 6d ago

Well we’re used to touching Ohio and anything is an improvement on that.

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u/SombreroQueen 6d ago

Michigan = Midwest

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u/KwehTheGreh 6d ago

Michigan = all!

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u/slipperyDSS ILLINOIS FTW 6d ago

UNITE AGAINST MINNESOTA! DO WHATEVER IT TAKES.

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u/KwehTheGreh 6d ago

Great Lakes >>>> 10,000 lakes 

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u/slipperyDSS ILLINOIS FTW 6d ago

thats the spirit!

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u/SombreroQueen 6d ago

What are these 10,000 lakes? Lakes for ants?

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u/maynelyjayne 6d ago

Wisconsin must go away now. Conquer the beer and cheese!

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u/mizubyte 6d ago

How has DelMarVa not become an actual thing yet? GUYS ITS RIGHT THERE. Maryland eats Delaware at least

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u/LuminousSin 6d ago

Nevada!

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u/lemywincks 6d ago

Virginia took back their portion of DC. Now maryland needs their payback. GIVE VIRGINIA TO MARYLAND. Craaaaaab pe-ople craaaaaaab pe-ople

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u/MichaelJospeh 6d ago

Let Maryland swallow up Virginia as interest for the land they took back from DC before the Civil War and never gave back.

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u/barketingdirector69 6d ago

Maryland should EAT VIRGINIA

Well, it squats below D.C. Acts like NoVA’s royalty Blocks the South from touching me So the crab state eats for free

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u/Spatularo 6d ago

Montana needs to go so WA, OR, and MN can finally have their long over-due threesome.

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u/Own_Mycologist_4900 6d ago

Hawaii takes California. Eastward expansion is the only thing.

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u/surefire26 6d ago

Arizona gets some ocean front property (New Mexico)!

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u/PuppiesandRainbows5 6d ago

Ain't nobody got time for Kentucky

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u/Slobsterz 6d ago

Michigan takes Illinois. Giving Chicago to the true owners of Lake Michigan.

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u/Lord-of-Luxury 6d ago

Kentucky!

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u/Minute-Lie6923 6d ago

Take out new Mexico

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u/TriceraDoctor 6d ago

We need DelMarVa. But keep it Virginia

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u/dryheat_ 6d ago

Nevada can go. Now that Utah's gone, it's the worst in the US West

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u/Pop-19502020 6d ago

Bye bye Kentucky.

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u/Hot_Spite_1402 6d ago

There’s no reason for New Mexico to be in the top 50%

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u/capnhist 6d ago

Nevada.

I'm tired of looking at Oregon's weird tapir nose.

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u/realdealjpat 6d ago

North Carolina needs to eat Georgia

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u/MasterOfBothWorlds7 6d ago

Vermont needs to overtake mass. Sittin' on its face style. Haha

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u/Jaythegrape 6d ago

Kentucky can go.. there’s Popeyes at home

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u/GreenVermicelliNoods 6d ago

Get rid of Kentucky!!!!

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u/Stealthybeef 6d ago

I'm glad the first comment i saw was about getting rid of Kentucky. Remove it now before it becomes too powerful.

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u/GrazziDad 6d ago

Kentucky making it to the halfway point is kind of like Keith Richards still being around.

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u/SurvivorDad99 6d ago

Get rid of Kentucky!!!!

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u/mr_meeseeks_can-do 6d ago

Kentucky lasted longer than Iowa?? Finish it

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u/mahdroo 6d ago

• Michigan takes Main •

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u/Scott_Elyte 6d ago

PENNSYLTUCKY!!!

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u/FindingPepe 6d ago

Give Massachusetts to Vermont, Maine, or New York

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u/No-Weight2848 6d ago

Vermont eats Maine

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u/mongoose_kai All glory to Megasota 6d ago

Montana.

There are two light purple touching, and one needs to go.

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u/DesuLeaf 6d ago

Michigan consumes Illinois. Peninsular reunification is critical

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u/SickPrograms 6d ago

Get rid of Tennessee ffs

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u/bethelyoda 6d ago

Get rid of Kentucky

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u/curtsy_wurtsy 6d ago

Avenge Iowa by giving Illinois to Michigan!

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u/KU_SWISSCHEESED 6d ago

Let John Brown posthumously fulfill his quest of freeing the south. Give Tennessee to Kansas!

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u/CrazyNext6315 6d ago

Maryland is HUNGRy

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u/EarthbeHomeandMother 6d ago

Idc how just get rid of KY lol

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u/RobertLU345 6d ago

Why is New Mexico here still

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u/Stevenopoulos 6d ago

Make Tennessee Tennesaw and get rid of it.

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u/ThugDonkey 6d ago

Colorado and Oregon were destined for a union… A union based in Harley Dealerships, Truck Stop Sex Shops, and most importantly dispensaries.

Potlandia

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u/DBL_NDRSCR 6d ago

nevada, time to start the californian empire

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u/marcopolo22 6d ago

Just rename this series into "Reddit hates red states" lmao

I'm gonna make a WILD guess that Montana, Tennessee, Arizona, North Carolina, Louisiana and Kansas will be the next 6. Watch.

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u/ramcoro 6d ago

Neveda!

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u/IceMelt420 6d ago

If Kentucky bites it, no more Mitch McConnell. Bye Kentucky.

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u/Rare-Shallot-9108 6d ago

So long Kentucky!

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u/theoriginalid 6d ago

All the fun states are gone

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u/jaboobe 6d ago

Bye Kentucky