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  <title>How the States Got Their Shapes</title>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was not as good as I had hoped, though it did have some interest.  My big problem was the way he arranged his information, which was with the states in alphabetical order and then dealing with each border.  The alphabetical order was the big problem--you spent a fair amount of time flipping back and forth between, say, Arizona and Nevada, or Mississippi and Alabama.  Or you didn't flip, and so you forgot part of the story.  Just a dumb and lazy way to arrange information that could have been really interesting.  <br/><br/>Still, I know that Michigan got the UP because they gave Toledo to Ohio (after the two states waged a war over Toledo), so hey.  Not all bad. ]]></body>
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