Mid-Afternoon Map: Inverse America

Welcome to Mid-Afternoon Map, our exclusive members-only newsletter that provides a cartographic perspective on current events, geopolitics, and history from the Caucasus to the Carolinas. Subscribers can look forward to interesting takes on good maps and bad maps, beautiful maps and ugly ones — and bizarre maps whenever possible. *** How would history change if America was backwards? It’s a question the country’s leading historians still refuse to answer. When you ask, they just back slowly away. So let me suggest three possibilities: Everything would be the same. Everything would be different. Everything would be the same in a totally