The Continental Divide

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. *** The United States has always been plagued by regional rivalries. In the mid-19th century, they led to a violent civil war. In the mid-20th century, they led to some mildly amusing maps. America, it turns out, has a long tradition of cartographic cartoons like the one below. Playing with geographic perspective, they