California State University geography professor George Etzel Pearcy certainly thought so when he proposed that America should redraw its state lines in 1973. According to Mental Floss, Pearcy believed that new states would have improved the budgetary problems facing the U.S. at the time:
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And apparently the idea had some actual traction:
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Unfortunately (maybe?) we'll likely never see the America that pearcy dreamed of. Even so, we can look at his map and wonder what living in Hudson or San Gabriel might have been like. For a bigger look at Pearcy's plan, click here.
[via Mental Floss]
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