We use lots of natural borders as the delimiters of given states. The Mississippi River is a big one. You see it more out east than west IMHO.
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sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Imagine flying to other continents and discovering they divide land by natural geographic formations. Americans could never.
Shnog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
First_Thunder@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Those were divided over natural formations due to practical concerns (war and defensible positions), not out of some love of nature
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
probably, but the fact that it works out better for nature is still notable. also market forces behind checkerboard country are just reprehensible and will never have consideration for human life, let alone nature
Soulg@ani.social 2 weeks ago
You mean aside from a lot of our states, and the Texas-Mexico border, and portions of the US-Canada border?
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Soulg@ani.social 2 weeks ago
I laughed, well played
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think they meant all those coasts that are man made. Still think we should have said no when they wanted to extend Florida so far out.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Because only in the US are farm fields rectangular.
NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
A good chunk of them are circular because they can automate watering easier that way.
Aaaaakshully…
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
*only ones part of a shit industry are rectangular on an American scale
lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
But they call them squares
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Idaho about that, actually.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Thank Thomas Jefferson for that brain damage. It has a lot to do with why most of our topsoil is now in the Gulf of Mexico.
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Do you mean drunk squiggly lines by a British man?
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
True, but I was referring to copses of trees, creeks, hillsides, slabs of boulder, underground water. Things that are a pain in the ass to farm around so often affect the division of property lines and then the selling rates of land.
SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
That happens in parts of the US that actually have those things, just not in the super flat bits that don’t have anything interesting in them to use as a boundary to begin with. Kinda hard to break things up by rivers or ridges or trees when there aren’t any there naturally. But near me, that stuff is super common as boundaries for fields for exactly the same reason.
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Fun fact: the trees used to mark those boundaries are called witness trees, and since they were never chopped down they are the only remaining old growth trees in a lot of areas.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Does the area you live in not get deforested? We generally pull boulders and whatnot out of the ground when we have to in order to make more sellable plots
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There wasn’t really any of that out in the prairie.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
There’s plenty of that in the prairie. it’s a pain in the ass. unless you’re living on land so old that generations before you did all the work getting it ready
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hey those are fully intentionally drawn to ensure everyone has just enough ethnic and religious minorities to ensure they force those groups to be a problem for them. Also to screw the Kurds
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m so happy that we Europeans have really come together over the years to fuck the Kurds.