From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 2/14/23 00:23, Mark Brader wrote:   
   > Mark Brader:   
   >   
   >>     A2. What state has the most northerly point of the "lower 48"   
   >>         or contiguous US states?   
   >   
   > Minnesota.  4 for Dan Tilque.  3 for Pete.   
   >   
   > Maine is nowhere close to correct -- it's wrong by almost 2° of   
   > latitude or about 130 miles or 215 km.  You *four* people who tried   
   > that answer need to deign to look at a Mercator-projection map once   
   > in a while.   
      
   You can't blame them too harshly. Most non-Mercator maps (which means   
   most maps) of the US are slightly rotated counter-clockwise, putting   
   Maine at the same distance from the top of the map as Washington state.   
   This gives people a mistaken notion of the relative northness   
   (northicity?) of places on opposite sides of the country.   
      
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