Comment on Expand North! So much room up there.

• kungen@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Due to the Straits of Mackinac, the CBP considers it to be so.

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  • Iampossiblyatwork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That would still make Chicago. The third largest city in America further than 100 miles from the border.

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    • m0darn@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I reckon you can sail from lake superior to Chicago and not pass customs until Chicago.

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  • BigDiction@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I don’t get it. The border is north of the UP.

    Why do the straights count?

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    • sudo@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Because they want more jurisdiction and got it.

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• J92@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It is a border between wet and dry.

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