A Texan’s View of the USA
Exploring their thoughts of grandeur (and what they think of the rest of us)
This is a first: one of my subscribers sent me this map, noting "I have a rather funny small poster called "A Texan's map of the US", it's a period reprint from the Ford Times magazine from the late 1940s, and was given to my grandfather Dr. J.W. Wright by a local Ford dealer in Lubbock Texas.”
I did a bit of research and found it listed at the Hagley Museum and Library. It notes “This Texan's Map of the United States' comes from a March, 1947 issue of Ford Times”
It appears Texan’s thoughts of grandeur was a common theme. Here’s two more:
For more subjective views of America see:
Bostonian's Idea of the USA
A satirical look at the USA from the perspective of Boston. Map is wildly distorted to emphasize the Boston region. Great Lakes represented the size of Lake Champlain. Mississippi River shrunken in an otherwise empty Middle America. It notes only five universities in America - Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, Princeton and Columbi…
A New Yorker's Idea of the USA (1937)
This humorous pictorial map of the United States takes the perspective of a New Yorker, with New York shown in oversized proportion to the entire country. A parody of the self-centered - and geographically illiterate -New Yorker: Hollywood and San Francisco are shown as separate states and take up most of Californian. Minneapolis a…
Texans are so wacky.