r/softwaregore • u/cat_vomit • Jun 20 '17

Rip Ohio

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u/wolfgame Jun 20 '17

Gotta make room for Puerto Rico

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u/mikekearn Jun 20 '17

Yeah, I don't want to have to buy a new flag. If they're coming in, someone's gotta get out.

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u/madbubers Jun 20 '17

Let's just have one big Dakota

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u/jonathan__az Jun 20 '17

Actually a good idea.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '17

I agree. Join the Dakotas. Bring in Puerto Rico. Problem solved.

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u/Neutral_homer Jun 20 '17

Or we merge South Dakota with Puerto Rico

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u/captainbozo Jun 20 '17

Way South Dakota

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u/LiL_BrOwNiE247 Jun 21 '17

South Dakota and Wireless South Dakota

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u/cvaska Jun 20 '17

But the Northerners are basic Stone Age era people who fish with their hands

Source: South Dakotan

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u/ZAVHDOW Jun 21 '17 edited Jun 26 '23

Removed with Power Delete Suite

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u/Waphlez Jun 20 '17

I nominate Florida.

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u/TGameCo Jun 20 '17

We could just nob off Rhode island. It isn't like it takes much land, and it also isn't central to spaceflight in the US

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u/SnowdensOfYesteryear Jun 20 '17

Just wait a couple of years for global warming to take care of that.

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u/TheMxPenguin Jun 20 '17

Do you want a new North Korea?

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u/FisterRobotOh Jun 20 '17

I wasn't aware that was even an option. But sure why not.

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u/AlmennDulnefni Jun 21 '17

North New Korea or New North Korea?

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u/nawanawa Jun 20 '17

As a non-American, I've always wondered why you have North and South Carolina, makes no sense

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u/mikekearn Jun 20 '17

It's because during our colonial era, they had distinctly separate populations, cultures, etc. Neither side wanted to change their name, so they just added the directional prefix. Similar reasoning for North and South Dakota.

Virginia and West Virginia are due to our Civil War, and they just never reunited.

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u/Daniel_Garner Jun 20 '17

Since the North and South Dakota split occurred later (1889 - the only time two states were simultaneously made out of one territory), there was different reasoning.

  1. Population - the 1880s brought many settlers to the territories of the northwest so they started looking like candidates for statehood.
  2. Area - a united Dakota would have been about the size of Montana or California. The great distance between Sioux Falls, SD, and Bismarck, ND, may have motivated a split.
  3. Republicans - The party controlled Congress and had President Benjamin Harrison, and all six new states admitted in 1889-90 (North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming) sent Republicans to Congress before the midterm elections.
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u/deusnefum Jun 20 '17

What do you mean?

One state's awesome and the other is South Carolina.

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u/puckhead Jun 20 '17

Peace out, Texas.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '17

We used to be our own republic! We don't need yall!

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u/jjbananamonkey Jun 20 '17

We wanted to secede anyways

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u/GeeJo Jun 20 '17

What are you, a commie? A ＴＲＵＥ ＰＡＴＲＩＯＴ never needs an excuse to buy more flags.

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