Hoosgot

http://www.rants.org/2008/09/09/honest_electoral_map/ asks Hoosgot,

How hard would it be to make a distorted map of the United States in which all the state borders are shown, but with the states shrunk or expanded to have areas proportional to their populations? In other words, like this map from FiveThirtyEight.com… …but with each state re-sized to visually represent its electoral college weight. Naturally, this would distort the shape of the U.S. as a whole, at least if one wanted to keep borders touching as they do now. But could it be done? And done so that the country is still basically recognizeable? Getting the areas right could be tricky, since these aren’t rectangles… One would have to be careful to avoid the sorts of accidental data …

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