Why don’t you just use Colin Woodward’s map? Or overlay moving records, flying records, driving, dollar bill tracks, shipping, phone calls, waterways, roads, race, ethnicity, religion… Woodward’s been working on this forever and I haven’t seen an innovation yet.
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@NateSilver538
TBH the more I think about it the more I think you really need like 12 regions (11 not counting Hawaii) to cover the US. (Note: these boundaries would ABSOLUTELY NOT strictly be along state lines if I had time to make a real map, but this gives you the general idea.) https://t.co/w0NXOvYupo
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