You never wondered why I was the senator of a state that has more businesses than residents, Jack? :biden-the-thing:
The Delaware-New Jersey border is insanely fucked, it's defined by a 12 mile circle around a tiny town in Delaware.
This kind of madness is only possible when it was still inbred kings personally drawing borders on maps.
The spanish colonies had already Independized(TM) (not economically of course else the agroligarchs and ports-burshwá dipshits would have been angery) by the time they conquered Tierra del Fuego.
Native americans couldn't vote unless filthy rich from mixed ancestry maybe
Delaware was a Dutch colony which is why it’s not a part of Maryland
Swedish I thought? maybe there was also a Dutch colony near New Sweden
It was Swedish until the Second Northern War when the Dutch seized it while Sweden was busy fighting the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Also the Dutch Colony near New Sweden was New Netherlands along the Hudson River.
There's also a tiny little bit of Delaware on the NJ side of the Delaware River
Holy shit you are right, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-Mile_Circle
I was going to make a Holy Roman Empire joke, but then I realized that the borders would be even worse
Not included in the map above is the Chesapeake Bay Bridge/tunnel & related automobile highways between the southern tip of Delmarva Peninsula and Virginia Beach.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay_Bridge%E2%80%93Tunnel
There might also be a ferry somewhere?
This is clearly the Peninsula. A strange and accursed land where superstitious fisher folk worship a two-mouthed river god.
