“What If U.S. States Were Shaped According to Economics?”

What if it weren’t mountain ranges or rivers or politicians wielding an occasionally arbitrary straightedge that created the shapes and outlines of the 48 contiguous United States, but economic relationships?  Our political map might look considerably different:

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