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A photographer/urban planner named Neil Freeman (and there’s a career combo you don’t hear too often) offers this map of the United States with the existing state borders replaced by borders that balance out population densities into 50 equal territories, with the idea being that the reapportionment would eliminate the iniquities in Electoral College votes. It would also shift House districts, though he doesn’t explicitly mention that. I think it’s kind of interesting to see where the borders change and how they do or do not match other groupings based on demographics, political divisions, cultural distinctions, or quirks of history. For example, he splits up New England and Upstate New York into three territories instead of seven states, but if the same region were carved up based on economic influence, one might expect to see the Boston territory extend more northward and southward, but contract a bit eastward, and you might have to cede some bits of New York, Vermont and Maine to Canada.
