You are granted the power to make 2 states trade locations with each other, all of their people and culture move with their states. What states do you move?

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1. I would swap Ohio and Colorado. I don’t wanna share a border with Ohio anymore

2. Florida and Minnesota

3. Rhode Island and Texas

4. I was going to say Arizona and Indiana. Winter in Phoenix and summer in Flagstaff for me, but then I realized I couldn’t give up my Ohio River. Near me it’s as deep as 100 feet and it’s deepest is near Louisville Kentucky at 168 feet. Besides, those desert people couldn’t survive the mosquitoes and trash pandas let alone driving in rain.

5. Hawaii and Alaska

6. Wyoming and Colorado

7. If I swap Alaska and Florida, can I control the orientation of Alaska to subsume all of the Caribbean?

8. Nevada and Massachusetts

9. California and Montana.

10. Rhode Island and California

11. North Dakota and South Dakota and see how long it takes anyone, even the Dakotans, to notice.

    I’m betting we could almost push a full 24 hours before somebody realizes what’s up.

12. Florida and Queensland (Australia)

    Both are “Sunshine States” and apparently, aside from the time change that would occur, a few of the people involved might not notice a difference

13. Florida and Massachusetts.

    I’d buy stock in suntan lotion companies, as well as Patagonia and other cold weather gear companies, especially long underwear.

    I eat fin fish but not shellfish, so I quickly get a much improved variety of options.

    MIT will get along quite well with KSC. Not sure what we’d do with Harvard.

    The staff at Plimoth Plantation will transfer to St. Augustine and finally represent the oldest European settlement in the continental US.

    Key West and Provincetown would swap.

    DeSantis and his groupies don’t deserve DisneyWorld.

14. North and South Dakota

15. Texas and Massachusetts

16. Idaho and New Hampshire. Why? Because they’re both mountain states, but about as different as mountain states can be.

17. Indiana and Hawaii. I’d get better weather pretty much the entire year, along with locally-grown pineapple. I’m not sure we’d be able to grow decent coffee with our soil, but it’s worth a try.

    Bonus: It would be really funny to plant the Navy base at Pearl Harbor in the middle of the Midwest. (I assume that Hawaii would take some sea water with it, because it’s much smaller than Indiana.)