[TML] Threadjack Counties

[Evyn MacDude]

On Sep 4, 2007, at 11:59 PM, domhanai at juno.com wrote:

> With respect, Indiana county sizes are not typical; they are  
> constrained by decades of gerrymandering

Nope no Gerrymandering in those counties borders, them is damn near  
plumb straight.

> Northwest Ordinance.

????? 'splain, please?

> Counties west of the Mississippi (roughly 60% of contiguous US)  
> have counties 20 times the size of Indiana standard.

Yes, makes sense to me, changing systems of survey allow for broader  
divisions
of land. Or gotta love the rail roads.

> I'm sure that, with sufficient technology, any size of territory  
> can be placed under a structure (

Yep, but the question was about a single dome.

Evyn MacDude
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