The now-ubiquitous election 2004 map by Michael Gastner, Cosma Shalizi, and Mark Newman at the University of Michigan:
The web now crawls with juxtapositions of this map (or one of the others by this Michigan gang found here) with others. The map of pre-Civil War slave and free states is particularly interesting, as it demonstrates that the "dividedness" talked of now goes back more than a century.
But for the long view, I personally prefer this item, Nicolas Sanson's "Amerique Septentrionale" (Paris (1650-)1651):
Yes, California is an island. Now and always.
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Once again, Alaska and Hawaii are missing on a map. One is red, one is blue, someday we'll be real states too.
And California as an island? Did you not see Oregon and Washington watching its back? And there is Hawaii (not to be redundant) working its day job as an island until it gets a promotion to the mainland.
Niki
No disrespect meant to Oregon and Washington. I think these early mapmakers considered them part of the long coast that they named the Isle of California. My adoption of the old term for the new case is admittedly not 100% PC.
But you have a real beef with Gastner & co. No taxation without cartographic representation!
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