Subject: Re: Four Color Maps
Date: Dec 06, 2003 @ 18:00
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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> Adam,Island, which are
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> You wrote:
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> > but the only true exclave in the US is in the western corner of
> > Kentucky.
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> Don't forget Liberty Island and the original portion of Ellis
> New York enclaves within New Jersey. Of course, a number of stateshave inlands
> that are enclaves within international waters, but that's obviouslynot what you
> meant.nominate Florida,
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> Just which states would fall into the latter category? I'd
> California, Alaska, and Hawaii. Any others?actually those are all cases of islands rather than inlands
><choatune@y...>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "adamnvillani" <avillani@u...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 6:48 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Four Color Maps
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> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Eric Choate"
> > wrote:map
> > > What about US states with counties? Or I'm sure with all the
> > > gerrymandering in state legislatures, a congressional district
> > > somewhere needs a fifth color. Anyone know of one?forms
> >
> > Probably not, actually. The gerrymandering takes such bizarre
> > because the districts have to all be continuous. So if a districthas
> > wants to include two towns on opposite ends of the state, there
> > to be a continuous corridor of that district between the twotowns.
> > And any districts inbetween can't cross the corridor; to be onboth
> > sides of the corridor, they'd have to reach around one or both ofthe
> > two towns in question. So topologically, there are no exclaves ofexclave,
> > congressional districts, and water counts as territory. The only
> > exception would be something where the state itself has an
> > but the only true exclave in the US is in the western corner ofhttp://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
> > Kentucky.
> >
> > Adam
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