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demmiblue

(36,875 posts)
Tue Dec 29, 2015, 09:45 AM Dec 2015

The U.S. Map Redrawn as 50 States With Equal Population

Source: Mental Floss



Neil Freeman redrew the state borders to get a visual sense of what it would take for the electoral college votes to match the popular vote. That is to say, for each state to be weighted evenly.

"The largest state is 66 times as populous as the smallest," Freeman explains on his site, "and has 18 times as many electoral votes."

His map is based on 2010 Census data, which records a population of 308,745,538 for the United States. Divided up among 50 states, that's a population of a little over six million people per state. The names of new states are mostly taken from geographical features.


http://mentalfloss.com/article/58809/us-map-redrawn-50-states-equal-population

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The U.S. Map Redrawn as 50 States With Equal Population (Original Post) demmiblue Dec 2015 OP
Interesting ProfessorGAC Dec 2015 #1
Huh? Snobblevitch Dec 2015 #2

ProfessorGAC

(65,159 posts)
1. Interesting
Tue Dec 29, 2015, 09:54 AM
Dec 2015

Actually, i think he should have been pushing the idea about the Senate not the EC. No biggie. He admits it's an art project and not meant to be a serious proposal.

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