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They'll only start doing that once it goes blue.
Sure we'd take it though it always look strange to me why it isn't just part of Wisconsin.
Michigan & Ohio were fighting over the rights to the city of Toledo. Ohio won so Michigan was given the upper peninsula as a consolation prizeSure we'd take it though it always look strange to me why it isn't just part of Wisconsin.
Hawaiian Pizza is good 😡
You should look up the Toledo War sometime.
Toledo War - Wikipedia
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Wow interesting! Learned something new about US history, haha! Seems strange why they couldn't just use the Maumee River there as the natural boundary between Michigan and Ohio though. Border boundary can be so weird sometimes!Michigan & Ohio were fighting over the rights to the city of Toledo. Ohio won so Michigan was given the upper peninsula as a consolation prize
Michigan won that deal
Not really a coincidence. The lake's name came first but it makes a lot more sense when you realize what the michigan territory looked liked after the formation of Indiana, Illinois & Ohio as states:Pretty sure I knew this in grade school. Not even from geography lessons, but because of a little bit of trivia that states that only one of the Great Lakes is actually completely inside the United States border. That lake is, purely by coincidence I'm sure, called Lake Michigan.
We would accept Hawaii. They seem cool.
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The US just wanted to make the northwest territory into 3-5 states so they just arbitrarily divided the map in half with the southernmost point of Lake Michigan as the dividing point. But they were relying upon super inaccurate maps, hence the chaos. Ohio would never want to use the Maumee river though because they feared losing access to the great lakes (and therefore the ocean)Wow interesting! Learned something new about US history, haha! Seems strange why they couldn't just use the Maumee River there as the natural boundary between Michigan and Ohio though. Border boundary can be so weird sometimes!
For real, I learned this shit in elemental school.
The US just wanted to make the northwest territory into 3-5 states so they just arbitrarily divided the map in half with the southernmost point of Lake Michigan as the dividing point. But they were relying upon super inaccurate maps, hence the chaos. Ohio would never want to use the Maumee river though because they feared losing access to the great lakes (and therefore the ocean)
The state borders in the US would be a lot simpler if they had access to quality maps at the time instead of relying upon hearsay from traders. There's some crazy border weirdness between the US & Canada for the same reasons.
It's basically Canada, anyway. We should just split it 50/50/50.