Is it Time to Rethink US State Names?

[Janus]

and if you go straight South from Detroit what's the first different Country you come to?

According to our new map, it would be France.

 

[tribdog]

I bet you win a lot of bets in bars/pubs with that one.

you'd think so, but it seems like the only people dumb enough to make a bar bet usually get confused by the term South and end up saying Canada anyway.

 

[Danger]

and if you go straight South from Detroit what's the first different Country you come to?

You would not believe the number of times we encountered Yanks driving south across the border from Detroit with skis on their car racks in the middle of August. It was like 100* F. with 99% humidity, and they wanted to know where the snow was! We'd tell them to turn around and go back the way they came from for 8 or 9 hundred miles.