Sunday, 9 October 2011

Maps - A Texan's Map of the USA.

This is the map I selected to choose from the website suggested. It was a choice between this one, or a map which indicated how many songs mentioned a certain state, and that would constitute the state's size.
However, I chose this map because I can't decide whether it was created to take the mickey out of the people of Texas, or advertise that "Everything is bigger in Texas" as so many people from the Lone Star State like to repeat.
Each other state aside from Texas has been renamed aptly, to something that either sounds like what it is meant to be (Missouri - Misery) or becomes completely derogatory (California - Uninhabitable, New York - Damned Yankee Land).
This comedic postcard caught my attention mainly because the whole of Texas, which is the largest state anyway, has taken up the whole middle section of America, pushing the other less important states aside.
To me, this postcard gives a feel of Why Go Anywhere Else, When There's Texas? Which I suppose supports Texas' commericial side, making the postcard a success.

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