Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

My oldest daughter recently went through a serious “what if” phase, which means constant questions that start with “What if…” and end with extremely improbable situations. Thank goodness that’s over, but here’s an interesting “What if…” scenario for you:

What if all 300,000,000 Americans lived in one place, packed as densely as Brooklyn? Where would we fit?

(Click the map for a larger image)

Surprise! It’s New Hampshire! Makes one wonder what the New Jerusalem will be like.

(created by Shane Keany for a contest on the GOOD blog.)
(ht Jonathan Brink, who found it on Cartophilia, which found it from a link at Rethinking the United States, which is a site on the Internet.)