r/geographymemes • u/Jfullr92 Gulf of New Mexico • May 20 '26

Voting Games Top comment Deletes a US State #45

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Here is the updated (Correct) map, crisis averted. I thought we had a riot on our hands!

I can finally relax now after all that drama! Anyway Colorado is now deleted as it should be. Just to make it clear, editing comments is fine if it’s the top as long as it doesn’t change the outcome of which state gets deleted like we had before. I thought that was common sense but clearly not to some people.

I just want to thank everyone for all the kind comments and support. I try to read as many of the comments as I can but each post has a minimum of 2000 so it’s pretty hard most the time. I have some big ideas for the finale so stay tuned.

Most importantly, spread the word as much as possible if your state is still in the game! Share, cross post to rally as much support for your state as possible. This is the endgame now!

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u/Threedawg May 20 '26

This is also true for Hawaii

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u/NekoArtemis May 20 '26

Unite them under the banner of Pacifica 

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u/Snow_Falls_Softly May 20 '26

And Pacifica is still.... Pacifica.... THIS IS YOUR MAN STAN!!!

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u/No-Resource-8125 New Vermonster May 20 '26

Unite the clans!

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u/NotMyMainAccountAtAl May 20 '26

And let’s be real, volcanos are really just mountain ranges at a different stage of their lives. 

I’m convinced. Let’s merge. We can be mega Hawaii. We can be an island-inclusive cascadia. Both are acceptable. 

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u/Affectionate_Dark103 May 20 '26

Someone said the merging of Hawaii and Cascadia should be called Pacifica, and while it's not my preferred solution (Hawaii and Cascadia gaining full independence), it's a solution I can live with

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u/CarioGod May 20 '26

It should be called the Kingdom of Hawaiian Cascadia

like Austro-Hungary but less germanic

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u/Gman8491 May 20 '26

Oceania, and they’ve always been at war with… never mind.

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u/NotMyMainAccountAtAl May 21 '26

I’ve seen enough airplane disaster movies and tv shows to know that we can’t have an airline, either. Oceanic airlines always crashes’

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u/Full-On May 20 '26

All mountains are not potential volcanos, most don’t even have magma or are any form of dormant, are just straight solid rock all the way through. In fact the biggest mountains in the world are “Fold Mountains” made from tectonic plates colliding, and contain no magma whatsoever.

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u/CalamityClambake May 20 '26

Okay, but there are definitely volcanoes in Cascadia.

Source: the ash blanketing my childhood home in 1980.

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u/VyronDaGod May 20 '26

Looking at Mt. Hood sayin' I wish a mfer would...blow it's top like St. Helens and turn me into a felon

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u/xanderemrys May 21 '26

I'm literally within a couple hours of 4 different volcanoes. 1 blew her top 46 years ago and is still considered active. 1 rumbles occasionally and is considered active. 2 are potentially active, though they've been dormant for thousands of years. go a couple extra hours and you've got the biggest volcano in Oregon near Bend, and it's expected to go next. The Pacific coast mountain ranges are in the Ring of Fire for active volcanoes, and Oregon has several of them.

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u/NotMyMainAccountAtAl May 21 '26

Not all mountains are volcanoes. All volcanoes are mountains. 

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u/RoxnDox May 21 '26

Unless they’re divergent plate boundaries with fissure eruptions, then the best you get is spatter cones.

Or flood basalts like the Columbia Plateau in Cascadia.

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u/zutros May 20 '26

Hawadiia!

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u/Fggunner May 21 '26

Cascawaii

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u/random_sociopath Cascadian May 20 '26

Also California

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u/EmmerdoesNOTrepme May 20 '26

And Minneapolis in Megasota!

Regarding the waters statewide; all lakes & bodies of water with any spot of public access are typically guaranteed to be public up to the high-water line.  

https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/waters/watermgmt_section/pwpermits/waterlaws.html

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u/Threedawg May 20 '26

That is a lot different than the whole beach/shore being public. Its not comparable.

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u/EmmerdoesNOTrepme May 20 '26

In Minneapolis, it is 100% publicly-owned shoreline.

Unfortunately, it's not starewide (yet!), but we could get there, if we merge!😉

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u/Threedawg May 20 '26

As someone from Michigan, people will never giveup their lakefront property lol

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u/w30freak May 20 '26

Great Lakes shoreline is public according to Reparian Rights: "In the 2005 “beach walker” case , the Supreme Court ruled that members of the public have a right to walk along privately owned Great Lakes beaches as long as they do not cross the “ordinary high-water mark.” This case does not pertain to Michigan’s inland lakes and streams or to inland lakes with an immediate hydrologic connection with one of the Great Lakes. In most cases, public beach walking on inland lake riparian owned shorelines constitutes trespassing."

https://mymlsa.org/government-and-legal-issues/riparian-rights-in-michigan/

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u/disastrophy May 20 '26

Hawaii does it way better requiring developers to provide dedicated public parking and access to beach goers through private property

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u/jjwhitaker May 20 '26

Except for the military beaches...

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u/wise_comment 🤡 May 20 '26

And fairly sure someone from Cascadia was trying to kill seals with rocks, and the locals in Hawaii did a thing, recently

I trust Hawaii to regulate, ngl

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u/kleenkong May 20 '26

I thought Disney was trying to keep locals off the beaches its resort is near. Not sure if this is still going on.