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Idaho In New State Of ‘Salt Lake’?

New York City artist Neil Freeman is selling for $35 his poster that equalizes the populations of the 50 states as a proposed Electoral College reform. Freeman puts Idaho in a new state of Salt Lake, along with eastern portions of Oregon and Washington, northern portions of Utah and Nevada and western portions of Wyoming and Montana. Freeman’s poster isn’t new — it is dated 2012 — but I just learned of it in the post-Christmas culling of an overfilled email inbox. Each state would have a population of about 6.2 million. (Freeman promises the 22-by-28 poster offers much more detail.) Politically speaking, Freeman’s vision is past a pipe dream. But as a lover of maps, I find the exercise fascinating, particularly the proposed state names/Dan Popkey, Idaho Statesman. More here.

Question: I personally think North Idaho should be part of a state of "Columbia" -- eastern Washington, North Idaho and western Montana. What do you think of an Idaho that's part of "Salt Lake"?


Read more here: http://blogs.idahostatesman.com/idaho-in-a-new-state-of-salt-lake-so-says-nyc-artist/#storylink=cpy

Read more here: http://blogs.idahostatesman.com/idaho-in-a-new-state-of-salt-lake-so-says-nyc-artist/#storylink=cpy


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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.