Coming back from a roadtrip out west, we once stopped for gas in Gary around 1am. From all the blue handkercheifs, it looked like the gas station was a Crip hangout. My two pals in the front seat were pretty oblivious, and while one pumped gas, the other went to get some beef jerky. My buddy's girlfriend was in the car with me, and she was from a tough neighborhood in Boston. I remember she looked around and said: "This place is fucked up. We need to get the hell out of here."
First rule of driving to Chicago, never stop in Gary.
Interesting idea. Still, if you look at the giant "state" titled "Shiprock", the citizens in the outlaying areas will be no less better served than they are now. If you were a politician, you would still only focus on the urban centers like Las Vegas or Santa Fe where the largest amount of people are. Isn't that right?
It's completely right, and there's not really a way to avoid that, unless you have a state with a much larger rural population than urban. Now that would be interesting to see in the modern day.
I find it interesting the states that changed the least. To me it looks like Washington (Rainier) and Minnesota (Mesabi) stay almost unchanged. Also it seems like it would be a horrible idea for Hawaii and Alaska to be part of other states, and the state of Casco strikes me as being poorly designed if it does in fact include Boston and most of Maine.