American Map: Positive State Mottos

The map of America I have chosen to analyse is named 'In Mottos We Trust? United Statements of America', which replaces the name of each state with its state "motto".

The immediate thing that stikes me whenever I look at a map of the USA is the sense of disunity through the separation of the states.

The reason this map interested me was the way that it reveresed this notion and showed a sense of coherence between the different states, represented through state mottos. For example, the words "justice", "equal/equality", "liberty/liberties", "union", "freedom/free" and "independance" all emerge more than once, some of them several times; which tells us a lot about America. In the vast majority of other maps I looked at on the site, America was represented through its contrasts and differences state to state. This map, however, inadvertently reveals an important sense of unity between the American states; in which a sense of optimism and a strive for a fair and just society resonates, as well as the fighting spirit that we often relate to Americans. To me, this map reveals a positive aspect of America, one that unites the often vastly different states of America.