Timmy's States

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I will be providing research and data for this escapade as well (consider this a joint project in Tim's name )

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I'd definitely recommend you to rework some of these boundaries. What looks nice on a map isn't always what makes sense culturally or economically for an area, and I think maps get a lot better when you take that into account. There's a lot to like about your map, so I think it could become really neat with just a few tweaks.

Thanks. You were a vital inspiration for this, so I value your input. I won't tinker all that much with my current lines, but I will look at uniting some CoI that aren't united right now.
The Bay area split is not going to be touched, fyi. My partner already did data for Oso.  He would loath having to redo it.

If you gotta fix the Bay Area, I'm fine with it. I haven't even done the demographic data for Oso yet, and that's the only part that I "loath"

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Perhaps you could make Puerto Rico a state?

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Perhaps you could make Puerto Rico a state?

We could also do that. I really like that.
Should we stick with 50 states or are you okay going over that?

50 is nice, because then we don't have to switch flags

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Don't know if it's too late to suggest names, but I'd nominate Calumet for the Chicago Metro+SW MI and Milwaukee/Madison state.

As a potential Kennebec resident, I also think you might want to name Kennebec for the Northern Forest administrative region (something like Northwood?).

https://www.nwf.org/Wildlife/Wild-Places/Northern-Forest.aspx

The region geographically dominates the proposed state (as you can see here: https://northernforest.org/the-center-and-region/interactive-map) and is common to all of them.

It isn't too late, no.
Any potential alternatives to Northwood, if one wanted to go down that route?

No, I love kennebec. Change any except that one.

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What are the states with the highest margins in 2012 and 2016 for each party? What were the bellwethers/tipping points? The closest state in 2012?

Looks great, by the way, Tim. Happy to see you're still working on this.