What if the U.S. was more like Europe, geopolitically?

Regular PSM readers know I love maps that envision an alternate reality, one that’s both very different and very familiar. To wit.

Well, Frank Jacobs found another set, these by “Leopold Kohr, a 20th-century Austrian academic whose work inspired both modern political anarchism and the Green movement.” The gist of the maps? What if political divisions in the U.S. were more like Europe, and Europe were more like the U.S.

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