Driving Across Nebraska
Why does it take so long to drive across Nebraska?
———- from Paul Weitzel of Dubuque, IA
Fold a map of the USA north to south along the 100 degree meridian. This line is called the “magic meridian”, because if you fold the map along it and then insert a pin through the city of San Francisco, it comes out in Trenton, New Jersey. Continuing to fold the map, one quickly discovers that the United States is actually a very thin peninsula, stretching from Labrador to Brazil. So you see, there really is no midwest. The reason it takes so long to drive across Nebraska is because the midwest is actually a series of circular expressways built through Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Delaware. Map makers maintain this fiction to increase profits and keep cartographers employed.
Fold a map of the USA north to south along the 100 degree meridian. This line is called the “magic meridian”, because if you fold the map along it and then insert a pin through the city of San Francisco, it comes out in Trenton, New Jersey. Continuing to fold the map, one quickly discovers that the United States is actually a very thin peninsula, stretching from Labrador to Brazil. So you see, there really is no midwest. The reason it takes so long to drive across Nebraska is because the midwest is actually a series of circular expressways built through Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Delaware. Map makers maintain this fiction to increase profits and keep cartographers employed. 