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[–] cjoll4@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

Why do you have two Kansases?

Kansas is named for the Kansa Nation that already lived in the area when early American explorers arrived.

Arkansas is pronounced like Arkansaw, silent s at the end. It is apparently the French spelling of an Algonquian word for the Quapaw people, completely unrelated to Kansas.

Why is everything a square????

Because by the time the colonizers made it west of the Mississippi, they were so tired of figuring out logical boundaries such as "geographical features" and "which people already live in which regions" so they decided to take the lazy way out and slice up half of the continent like a sheet cake.