#cascadia bioregion

[cascadianrev]

Cascadian pig of the month! Terry Emmert, worth 200 Million dollars, buys up properties in many PNW Cities! In Aberdeen Washington he is letting many properties sit without use and is renting out properties to shops for so much that they are being ran out of business! Look at this POS!

[josesinrimbo]

January 1st 2023

I wanted to be in the presence of other beings.

I went to a trail located on the mountains that approach the settlement of Issaquah. The location is known by the dominant society as Poopoo point or Chirico trail; It depends on who's asked. I knew it first as an abstract location during my years in high school. I knew my peers would frequent, and after a google-search, that it was also a paragliding location. I hadn't frequented the mountains until recently. When I take Flex shifts from the amazon-facility in Maple-Valley, I often travel to Issaquah or the settled forests of the Eastside; driving past this face of mountain.

I parked across the street of the busy road, Venmo'd the owners of the lot, and began to take note of the other individuals that also chose to hike on the first day of the year. I greeted others as often as I could, noting that not everyone was excited to say hello. In hindsight, I remember that PNW hiking etiquette may have changed throughout the pandemic. I shift my focus shifted to my breath, pace, and the landscape.

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In the forest I saw groves of only one species I was confident I could identify, Birch. As a senior-undergraduate chemistry student, I wrote a paper on a chemical-species, member of the equilibrium involved n the trees white-complexion. I hope that through this blog, I can return to it and repurpose it as a piece of science-communication.

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I saw the watershed flowing down the rocks above me and many streams below me (picture 4). In the moment I was afraid to consider that the face of the watershed I encountered was its expression of run-off and depletion; that perhaps too forest dried during the past summer, and left life there unable to reservoir water effectively for the approaching summer. I told myself to ignore my climate-anxiety and be present with our changing earth. I let myself be happy to have encountered one of many facets of the watershed that scattered the steep forest floor, water falling over rocks, in such a striking manner.

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When I emerged from the forest and into the clearing of the mountains face, I emerged and greeted sun's warmth, deeper than I had when I entered the forest. The heat felt kind on my aching body.

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I clung my hammock on an entrance to the forest away from others. I spent a few hours in my hammock, attempting to keep myself warm with the provided heat of the sun, and the absence of it in its shadow. There, I read the chapter Maple Sugar Moon of Robin Wall-Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass.

I found beautiful the reverence Wall-Kimmerer offers homes and its past occupants. In my gazes with the skyline, I considered a home to be a place of ritual and remembered the chapter 'An Offering', where she recounts summers spent canoe-camping in the Adirondacks, and a homemade-ritual of offering the first sip of brewed coffee to the earth. As an adult, her father shared the ritual may have been sourced from the coffee grounds picked up from the boiling water from the bottom of the kettle, in need of being cleared from the spout. She shares a belief that rituals are the union of the mundane to the sacred. I realized I believed her through the beauty I saw in her reverence to a home as place of ritual.

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On my way down I greeted a young grove of trees I assumed planted after the mountaintop had been cleared from logging; the scars of the act were scattered across the mountain. The vapors of a cloud passed through the tall trees, providing luminance for the rays of sunlight that managed to pierce the canopy. I rested to appreciated it, or I appreciated it to rest (picture 3).

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When I approached the forest entrance I started from, I noticed the presence beings I had not noticed before. A white fungus that emerged from the root soil of a decaying tree (picture 1). I was very excited about this.

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Walking towards my car, I faced the mountain and took a picture of the crown of sun that pierced the young forest at the summit (picture 2).

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Mi abuelo me dice mucho que le da mucha felicidad que tengo una rutina con qual vivir mi dia a dia. Me dice que el trabajo es un vicio, y lo entiendo. Cuando uno trabaja, uno tiene tiempo durante su día para ser completo durante la repetición de algún ritual.

Tengo la creencia de que aunque la praxis de mis mayores se deriva de las enseñanzas pervertidas del colonialismo y su esfuerzo por reclutarnos para ayudar a su reproducción, las palabras de mis mayores todavía están guiadas y moldeadas por un anhelo de ritual. Pienso que los rituales nos dan algo del universo de qual nuestra perception se puedo apoyar para crecer mas allá del miedo. Desarrollamos regulation en nuestros cuerpos y conocemos la seguridad: el typo de regulación que solo se puede encontrar cuando nuestros rituales nos dan perception calmada de lo que es grande, lo que cambia los tiempos, y guia nuestro paso

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My grandfather tells me that it makes him happy to see me practice a routine as I approach my day to day. He is also very proud that I have accepted the burden of labor. My grandfather tells me that labor is a vice, and I understand. When one labors, one has opportunity to practice presence in the repetition of some task. One practices a ritual.

I have the belief that though the praxis of my elders is derived from the perverted teachings of colonialism and it's effort to recruit us to aid it's reproduction, that words of my elders are still guided and shaped by a yearning for ritual. I think that rituals give us something of the universe that our perception can cling onto. Some support to help regulate safety into our bodies. A type of regulation that is only found when our rituals grant us calm perception to observe what is grand, of what changes the times, and guides our step.

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José

[grasshoppergeography]

Oh look one of the first ever commissions I made for an organization :)

Also, a correction is needed here: it is a map of the Cascadia Bioregion specifically, not one of the PNW. The Pacific Northwest has no universally accepted definition, and Cascadia is definitely a huge part of it, but the map was made of the Cascadia Bioregion which is a very well defined area.

This map cannot be found in my webshop, it is sold only through the Cascadia Department of Bioregion's website and 10% of earnings support the Alaska Whale Foundation (where I also had the chance to volunteer two seasons as a GIS specialist back in 2015 and 2018).

I think I can say that this is a map that has a very special place in my heart.

River basins of the Pacific Northwest.

[songsforsquid]

HH SUMMER CLASS Online:  Cascadia Field Guide

Class: Writing with the Cascadia Field Guide

Instructor: Sierra Nelson Class Description: Dive into the poems and naturalist insights in Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry—learning about fascinating creatures and plants living in "Cascadia" (Alaska to California, land and ocean). Then we'll generate our own writing (open to any genre) using in-class prompts inspired by the readings and diverse authors. Your writing can connect to any ecosystem; you don't have to live in Cascadia. You'll leave this class with deepened wonder, new drafts, and a reinvigorated creative process. (Open to all levels of previous experience.) https://hugohouse.org/product/writing-with-the-cascadia-field-guide/   Dates: Saturdays in August (Aug 5th to Aug 26th), 4 sessions total

Time: 1:10-3:10 p.m. PST

Where: ONLINE via Zoom

(Discount available for purchasing the Cascadia Field Guide.) 

Hugo House Registration Dates: Jun. 5 | Scholarship Applications Due - https://hugohouse.org/scholarships/  Jun. 5 | Scholarship Donation Day (by phone only) Jun. 6 | Hugo House Member Registration opens Jun. 12 | Scholarship Applicants Notified Jun. 13 | General Registration opens Jun. 19 | Last Day of Early Bird Pricing Jul. 3–Sep. 8 | Summer quarter classes To register & for more information: https://hugohouse.org/product/writing-with-the-cascadia-field-guide/ 

Would love to see you there! 

About the Cascadia Field Guide: “Have you ever been so filled up with the wonder of a place that it wants to spill out as a song? Well, here is the songbook. I imagine walking through a forest and pausing to read these illuminating pages aloud to a listening cedar or a dipper. There are field guides that help us to see, and to name, and to know; Cascadia Field Guide does all of that and more. This is a guide to relationship, a gift in reciprocity for the gifts of the land.” – Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass

[rabbitcruiser]

Siskiyou County, CA

Siskiyou County is a county located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 44,076. Its county seat is Yreka and its highest point is Mount Shasta. It falls within the Cascadia bioregion.

Siskiyou County is in the Shasta Cascade region along the Oregon border. Because of its outdoor recreation, Mt. Shasta, McCloud River, and Gold Rush era history, it is an important tourist destination within the state.

Source: Wikipedia

[shadesofmauve]

This is going around again, and I was looking at reblog notes 'cuz it's always funny to watch folks bicker about regional variations, and now I HAVE TO REBLOG because of the startling number of things in the notes like this:

"I bet people in the Pacific Northwest are raising an eyebrow at "Cascadia' too"

and

"'Cascadia'? It's the Pacific Northwest!"

BRO we are not raising an eyebrow, we are raising a FLAG.

Including pride versions:

And giant ones at actual sporting events (I am not a sporting event person, but look at this shot from a Portland Timbers game and tell me we don't embrace Cascadia):

Like every other boundary, where the lines are drawn depends on who you ask. The Cascadian Bioregion, as originally envisioned, is MUCH bigger than drawn here. The idea started in the 70s with the idea of a biogregion. Now everyone agrees it extends up into BC, Canada, but not about how far inland it goes (or that people want it to go). Here's the bigger bioregion map defined in the 70s:

My impression has always been that embracing Cascadia as a concept is more common west of the Cascades, though (including up into BC).

I also think it's important when looking at this map and thinking about culture to recognize a particular political movement that's further divided the wet west from the inland areas: the hyper-conservative doomsday preppers decided that Idaho (and t some extent far eastern Washington, NE Oregon, and the western bit of Montana) are The Place To Go so they can battle us all in the end times. This is a post-2000 movement. So the broader cultural wars are absolutely having a BIG impact on cultural affiliation/association that wasn't foreseen in the seventies.

Meanwhile, the idea of the Cascadian bioregion is absolutely still alive and kicking, and recognizing it's importance has been part of developing stronger cross-border partnerships. It shows up in the name of transportation and environmental plans, working groups, etc -- like, by actual current governments -- because it encapsulates an important idea that 'Pacific Northwest' doesn't.

/unasked for treatise

< ping: @solarbird >

USA Cultural Regions Map

[gwendolynlerman]

Separatist and irredentist movements in the world

Cascadia

Proposed state: Republic of Cascadia

Region: British Columbia, Canada; Oregon and Washington, United States

Ethnic group: Cascadians

Goal: independence

Date: 1840s

Political parties: Cascadia Bioregional Party, Cascadia Independence Party

Militant organizations/advocacy groups: Cascadia Department of Bioregion

Current status: active

History

1843 - favorable vote to establish an independent republic and creation of a provisional government

1930s - proposal for the State of Jefferson

1986 - first Cascadia Bioregional Congress

1994 - design of the Cascadian Bioregional Flag

2005 - foundation of CascadiaNow!

2008 - creation of the Cascadia Independence Party

2016 - proposal for a secession referendum

2021 - the Cascadia Bioregional Party is established

In the 1840s, parts of the colonist population wanted to form their own country and held a series of meetings to that end. Legislative, executive, and judicial structures were created.

One century later, attempts to establish the State of Jefferson resulted in roadblocks and the collection of tolls. A series of Cascadia Bioregional Congresses were organized in the 1980s.

Cascadian independence resurged after the 2016 U.S. election and a secession referendum was proposed. Several political parties and organizations were formed a few years later.

Cascadians

Although there are no statistics on Cascadian demographics as a whole, roughly 67.5% of the population has European origins, while 8% is classified as “visible minority”—defined as “persons, other than aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in color”—and 3.5% as First Nations/Native Americans.

English is spoken by 89.6% of the population as a primary language. Christianity is practiced by 51.1% of Cascadians, while 38.7% are irreligious.

[cascadia-stack-blog]

Water

I stumbled across this magazine at work. (I am employed by a community radio station in the Northwest.) I read the story about water and a Superfund Site in southern Oregon. Really, it's research for my Masters work for Mapping The System. My team is focused on how the changing climate, combined with ecological abuse has damaged our waterways, which ultimately impact our food supply. We will focus on the region of the US west coast, particularly the Cascadia Bioregion.

Yesterday, I had a meeting with a Harvard professor of hydrology and student of social innovation. More research.

Cascadia Stack, the company I am working to build is based on solarpunk ideals toward unity and harmony with nature. Climate adaptation, while reducing the effects of human activity.

Please follow to watch the progress.

[only-fragments]

#2725

Cascadia noun a term for the Pacific Northwest bioregion as defined through the geology of the region a name derived from the Latin word cascadere meaning cascading or falling a convergent plate boundary off the Pacific coast of North America the Pacific Northwest’s impending disaster (the ‘Big One’) the ancient battle of Thunderbird and Whale ghost forests and orphan tsunamis a geologic…

[adarede]

wikipedia pages i have looked at recently

(since my browser history cuts off after 3 months)

feudalism

sark

guernsey

jersey

sercquiais

LGBT slang

list of pejorative terms for people

micronation

miso

declaration of war

sophie ellis-bextor

strictly come dancing (series 11)

the weather girls

it's raining men

leg shaving

craig charles

radclyffe hall

cicely mary barker

apennine mountains

gypsy horse

list of crossings of the atlantic ocean

titanic

scullery

dutch elm disease

pince nez

boston marriage

lutheranism

monocle

howards end

list of countries and dependencies by population

academic ranks in the united kingdom

mafia

bad bunny

amber alert

hue and cry

charabanc

list of feminists

skibidi toilet

dj snake

milan kundera

christmas market

darcey bussell

self esteem (musician)

roger eno

squeegee man

crossing sweeper

ramen

housewife

stay-at-home parent

Sally Clark

SIDS

Rabies

catacombs of paris

beaufort scale

religiosity and intelligence

korean variety show

variety show

osbournes reloaded

pine barrens

environment of united states

a walk in the woods (book)

terminal velocity

muzzle velocity

dehumidifier

withnail and i

vivian mackerrell

bruce robinson

2017-18 australian parliamentary eligibility crisis

orlando: a biography

medically unexplained physical symptoms

gulf war syndrome

list of paradoxes

opposite day

cascadia (bioregion)

appalachia

beano (dietary supplement)

idaho

ghost rockets

list of billboard hot 100 number one singles of the 2010s

list of uk singles chart number ones of the 2010s

list of most viewed youtube videos

cardiac tamponade

the spook light

will o' the wisp

atmospheric ghost lights

ball lightening

brown mountain lights

st elmo's fire

poltergeist

shadow person

estimates of historical world population

chin

dan and phil

east west rail

african cuisine

ornimegalonyx

marital rape

bras d'honneur

list of songs by taylor swift

dwarf elephant

bone china

ivory

wrangel island

mammoth

african elephant

last glacial maximum

ground sloth

3D film

nigella lawson

prehistory of australia

mastodon

paleoloxodon

borneo elephant

straight tusked elephant

hyrax

north african elephant

zoetrope

O holy night

containerization

shakira

list of antidepressants

list of poker hands

victoria coren mitchell

bikini

evergreen A-class container ship

i had a little nut tree

gunge

houses in multiple occupation

pedestrian crossings in the united kingdom

belisha beacon

coca-cola formula

demographics of south america

wasabi

flashed face distortion effect

aella (influencer)

temperate rainforest

caledonian forest

loch lomond

bigfoot

jedi census phenomenon

timeline of meteorology

centralia, pennsylvania

jersey devil

ozarks

crawler

blue hole (new jersey)

quantum suicide and immortality

the hum

skyquake

tubal ligation

glycerol

air source heat pump

list of current knights and ladies of the garter

list of prime ministers of the united kingdom

CP Snow

calabash

gourd

apocolocyntosis

[cascadianrev]

Missing Portland

[xaviergalatis]

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Department of Bioregion

A Cascadia Field Guide to Wheatpasting

December 29, 2018

A CASCADIA FIELD GUIDE TO WHEATPASTING

Tactics & Ideas

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AN EASY STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO WHEATPASTING

Like graffiti, wheatpasting is a direct action technique that is a simple, visual means for communicating messages to a large audience created by mixing, water, flour and sugar. Wheatpasting has been used as antiquities and can be as simple as 8.5x11 sheets of paper, or even smaller, 11x17 copies or printouts, or large print runs, or lots of individual sheets coming together to combine for a longer message or picture. Prints and copies can for a 8.5x11 will usually run 3-8 cents a sheet, while larger 11x17 sheets may run 4-10 cents for black and white, or quite a bit more for color. For larger print outs, it’s always good to ask around, and most any independent print shop can offer reasonable quotes.

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Some larger pieces of wheatpaste can take up entire walls, or even billboards. Wheatpasting, like stickering and unlike graffiti, tends to fall into a legal grey area, because it is not permanent, does not use harmful chemicals, and is bio-degradable. If you would like to remain in this grey area - focus on public property - metal street signs, utility poles, utility boxes. Note that mailboxes constitute federal property and a felony offense, though some have actually found the USPS to be the nicest when reaching out about people wheatpasting on their property. People should make their own choices about bus stops - as they are public - but often it is the underpaid staff of Public transportation that has to clean them up.

If you size your pieces correctly, the back of stop signs, and other harder to reach places can yield long term results, and if you make your wheatpaste correctly, artwork can last for years even in the wettest and most damp conditions. If you want to double up your efforts, bring a staple gun.

In terms of ease, it always help to go with friends, especially tall friends, or take a small step ladder with you. 3 people tends to be optimal, where one person can hold the bucket and paint, one person can paint an under layer, another to slap it up, and then another to go over it again with another layer. You want to make sure the poster is thoroughly soaked all the way through with your wheatpaste mixture.

Disclaimer: Always check on your local laws and ordinances anywhere you might want to sticker, graffiti, or wheatpaste. The Cascadia Department of Bioregional Affairs takes no responsibilities of the actions for people who read this guide, and always recommends only that use wheatpaste in a legal, consentual manner.

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If you’re wheatpasting to express something specific, a good design is the key for getting your message across. Go big, go simple. Most people will see your poster from a distance, and the information must translate. So make the headline huge and legible and use images that are simple, high-contrast, and equally large. Most wheatpasting is done in black and white, so make sure to use high contrast colors, rather than a lot of shades or gradients. You can also include a paragraph or so in smaller print for the casually interested, and it’s always a good idea to add a web site address or similar link for those who want to pursue things further.

Don’t limit yourself to pasting up standard-size photocopies; many photocopying franchises offer much bigger options. You can make huge posters to put up; if such printing technology is unavailable, you can paste up big images comprised of smaller copies. This may seem counter intuitive, but the thinner the paper, the better—thin paper takes paste better, and will be more likely to rip off in tiny pieces rather than all at once if an art hater takes a dislike to it. Another way to foil such philistines is to run a razor quickly down and across each poster several times immediately after you’ve pasted it up; a pasted poster sliced in this manner will only come down one small piece at a time.

Recipe for Wheatpaste

WHAT YOU NEED:

Flour

Water

Sugar

5 gallon bucket with lid.

OPTIONAL:

Glitter

Non-toxic Glue

*Note* Multiply the ingredients to as much as you need. The below ingredients will make only a very little. It is also just one of about one million different recipes for wheatpasting so feel free to google, find your own recipe or find a good youtube video that works for you.

Wheatpasting is completely bio-degradable and non-toxic. We leave it on you if you want a ‘gluten free’ alternative.

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Directions:

Begin boiling 2 cups of water

In a separate bowl mix 1 cup of water with 1 cup of flour

Beat the hell out of that flour and water. Use an egg beater if you have one and whip it until you’ve got as smooth of a consistency as possible.

Turn off the boiling water and pour in the mixed wheat paste.

Continue stirring.

Add 3/4 cup of sugar.

Continue stirring.

Make a lot of pancakes. Yum yum yum.

Dump into the 5 gallon bucket and add the non-toxic glue and the glitter (shiny!) if you want. Note that this is not necessary but may help the adhesive properties and texture of said wheat paste.

Continue stirring.

This whole process should take no more than half an hour, and it’s ready as soon as it done.

Best means of delivery:

We highly recommend getting a 5 gallon bucket with a lid. Wheatpaste will usually keep for around 3-5 days (until it begins fermenting and smelling awesome).

Best way to put up posters or artwork is usually using a paint roller or brush you can buy very cheaply from a hardware store.

Using a paint roller, throw down a basic layer of wheatpaste. Soak every spot that the flyer will cover.

Put up the flyer.

Now, using the brush or paint roller, soak that thing. You want to make sure you coat the entire thing your putting up, and especially get the edges.

Wheatpasting works best on metal, but also works fine on concrete or even brick surfaces.

Don’t forget to clean off your supplies when you get back before it has a chance to dry.

We find wheatpasting with a friend works great. One person can throw down a base layer while another puts up the flyer and helps get the edges. If you can get a few friends, divide up into a couple groups, each with a bucket and you can hit both sides of a street at once.

Enjoy, alter and adapt all of these directions as needed! Figure out what works best for yourself. We encourage everyone interested in stickering, flyering or wheatpasting in their neighborhoods to understand their local laws. This can usually be found with a quick google of your cities RCW laws. In most major cities in the Pacific Northwest, all of the above are COMPLETELY LEGAL, but may vary from area to area.

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[cascadiacensus]

residents (gooseneck barnacles, Pollicipes polymerus) tide pool, pacific ocean june 30th, 2019 (Pollicipes polymerus are the scaly barnacles that look like armadillo claws. they, like other barnacles, have been accidentally ingesting plastic trash, harming residents all the way up the food chain).

[ericathemad]

We're already way ahead of you here on the West Coast

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cascadia_map_and_bioregion_vector.svg

Hello I'm here to weigh in on the amalgamate the states idea. What if we amalgamated them into one state, one large state with a decentralized government, that held elections based on popular vote rather than an electoral college outdated racist demographic information, and which updated its core tenets every 20 years to reflect the change in generation. And also had term limits on people in office such as to be no longer than 2 five year terms?

I mean it's just a thought and it would still be far from perfect.

But I live here and I don't know it just feels....better.

But also like, I do want the list of the ten amalgamated states you made.

okay so fair warning i'm canadian and also a bit stoned atm so you need to promise to not make fun of me for not knowing shit about your states, their names, your history, or my fashion sense. but here's my proposition to fix things as someone with no political power who doesn't live in your country. (to determine which old state capital becomes the new state capital, i propose a gladiator fight to the death and every old state sends their strongest warriors. that's open to negotiation tho.)

Minimichiowisconsindillinois- tbh i made this one just to piss off my ex since he said everyone living there would hate that idea. eat it, beard. this is a nice little centre state. it feels like a satisfying size. i originally devised it to be just states that were touching the great lakes but that IA one there really squares it out nicely.

East Topland- tbh i don't know too much about these states. it seems cohesive, though, and i think new york on the land has a lot of forest so if The OG Crew wants to start shit they'll have a buffer.

The OG Crew- i know these are not the only states that were like the starter states. east topland got some of those, i think. but these are the states that feel, to me, like they're the first states that started this whole deal out in the first place. if you would like to edit your history books to say i'm right, that would be a decent thank you for sorting this whole mess out for you

The Nothing States- these are the states i generally don't know a lot of stuff about. i think they're yeehaw states in some parts. but i have friends in at least two of them i think so i don't want to make up stereotypes because they will call me out because they don't care how stoned and canadian i am. rude. adding montana there on the end is a bit aesthetically displeasing but we need to keep the etsy sellers who sell prints of the shape of your state with a heart cutout in business so this leaves some tempting options.

New Oklouissippansexas- i am also keeping spelling bee judges in business. this also feels like a cohesive chunk. like i assume they vibe. plus when they have pride people can make t-shirts saying "New Oklouissippansexual" and that's gotta be a job creator.

The Midmidst- a very cool name for the middle of the country that i mostly drew because a purple stripe up the middle is nice. colorado gets included because we're not getting a straight line anyway so might as well give them, like, something

The Midwest 2- because it always bugs me that the midwest is so far east so it's fixed in this patch update. these places have a lot of empty space of various varieties, i think, and i feel it's important to have that all grouped together in one convenient state

Flo Rida- the same state but we do specifically rename it to honour flo rida and legally it has to be pink on every new map. this is self-explanatory

WETBOIZZZZZZ- for some reason when i originally did this calculation i thought it would be funny to name all the west coast states WETBOIZZZZZZZ. i still do tbh that owns. i think the west coast states all have a chill vibe, so i feel like they could probably be a state with a very strong identity before we meld all the people. WETBOIZZZZZZZ is obviously a party state but, like, a relaxing party, and i think it rules

Not Part Of The US Any More- hawaii can do whatever it likes- it can be part of whatever state it wants, or it can just leave america altogether because of, you know, everything. we're taking alaska since that just makes natural sense. again, no further questions needed

so there you go, 10 states (well, 9 states and one amerexit) that i could grow to respect

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Flag of Cascadia, a bioregion in the Northwest of the USA and the Southwest of Canada

from /r/vexillology Top comment: I wish Washington State would adopt this as their state flag.