Brian Unger is taking a different look at just how our states got their shapes.

What secrets are hiding in our map? What's behind the "blank spots" like Area 51? What possessed the citizens of Key West to throw down their margaritas and secede from Florida?

If you thought our borders were set in stone, you'd be wrong. 

Why do we have so many different words for the same things--like pop versus soda?

How has water literally shaped the States?

How have massive geological events helped create the American map? Long before the Founding Fathers drew the map, mother nature shaped some states.

Will rivalries within our states break them into pieces? Cultures compete against each other all over the map. In extreme cases, they can divide states in two.

Ever since the Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower, what we believe and how we believe has shaped the American map. Could Utah have been bigger than Texas?

Brian Unger is taking a different look at just how our states got their shapes.

What secrets are hiding in our map? What's behind the "blank spots" like Area 51? What possessed the citizens of Key West to throw down their margaritas and secede from Florida?

If you thought our borders were set in stone, you'd be wrong. 

Why do we have so many different words for the same things--like pop versus soda?

How has water literally shaped the States?

How have massive geological events helped create the American map? Long before the Founding Fathers drew the map, mother nature shaped some states.

Will rivalries within our states break them into pieces? Cultures compete against each other all over the map. In extreme cases, they can divide states in two.

Ever since the Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower, what we believe and how we believe has shaped the American map. Could Utah have been bigger than Texas?

Brian Unger is taking a different look at just how our states got their shapes.

What secrets are hiding in our map? What's behind the "blank spots" like Area 51? What possessed the citizens of Key West to throw down their margaritas and secede from Florida?

If you thought our borders were set in stone, you'd be wrong. 

Why do we have so many different words for the same things--like pop versus soda?

How has water literally shaped the States?

How have massive geological events helped create the American map? Long before the Founding Fathers drew the map, mother nature shaped some states.

Will rivalries within our states break them into pieces? Cultures compete against each other all over the map. In extreme cases, they can divide states in two.

Ever since the Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower, what we believe and how we believe has shaped the American map. Could Utah have been bigger than Texas?