What if State boundaries were redrawn so that each State had the same population?

[d_r]

24. it makes for an interesting map

but beyond that it is silly.
Here's an example. Why not keep Huntsville with Alabama and Chattanooga with Tennessee, rather than flipping them? The population in those areas would be about the same. This shows just one example of how arbitrary these sorts of decisions would be. Now reality. Chattanooga is separated from the rest of "King" by mountains. You'd have to go through Mammoth to get to the rest of the state. It is even worse for the western part of Columbia. No way across those mountains, basically you'd have to go to the city of Atlanta to get back up to the rest of the state. Despite that little tip up through Dalton, Atlanta still wouldn't have access to the Tennessee river (good), but now Columbia, King, and Mammoth have control over Atlanta's current water supply. Good luck with that Atlanta. King is going to keep the Coosa flowing through King into what is now Alabama and North Florida. Speaking of Florida, as if the aquifer wasn't in bad enough shape, now lets let canaveral cyphon it all off before it gets south to tampa bay and miami (and the desert formerly known as the everglades). The current state of Tennessee is now split across five states, who gets what resources? Thanks for breaking up the University system, that will be a nightmare. We will have to revise the prison system, the court system, and school systems. Etc.