The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to Cartography Anarchy@lemm.eeEnglish · 3 months agoIt's expanding every daylemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1286arrow-down16
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minus-squarestupidcasey@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months agoThe new world is sometimes referred to as the west and that is the middle of the continent so I guess by that logic No Mexico would be the Mid-West
minus-squarefunkless_eck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agothe actual answer is because the area pictured was west of the original colonies but I didn’t want to ruin my joke
minus-squareHildegarde@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agothe actual actual answer is that people east of the mississippi river haven’t looked at a map since 1803.
The new world is sometimes referred to as the west and that is the middle of the continent so I guess by that logic No Mexico would be the Mid-West
the actual answer is because the area pictured was west of the original colonies but I didn’t want to ruin my joke
the actual actual answer is that people east of the mississippi river haven’t looked at a map since 1803.