Thursday, July 14, 2011

Geographic illiteracy

I sort of hate to admit this, but there is a lot about this map (in the spirit of that most famous of New Yorker covers, Saul Steinberg's 1976 "View of the World from Ninth Avenue") that is spot-on. Of course, as a Southern Californian I know that LA and SF are more than an hour apart, and that more than wine is grown up north. But the precise location of Nebraska?