A Buttery Pastry posted:

That's definitely part of it, and it makes sense that it'd be particularly popular in the South. It's basically exchanging the least respected ancestry with the most respected non-European ancestry around, that of the Cherokee specifically. Usually a Cherokee princess because that sounded like your ancestor was a cool white man who convinced a proud Indian woman of noble birth to settle down with him, as opposed to the ghastly idea of the sexes being reversed. The latter story is pretty much exactly what I've had relayed to me from the American side of the family, a story of an amazingly fat sheriff who married a(n unusually for these stories perhaps) Sioux princess. Sounded pretty plausible to me as a kid, but I suppose it is easy to believe a story that starts of with "this American, he was real fat".

I wouldn't be surprised if the above got a life on its own though, so people with no apparent black ancestry also started claiming "Indian princess" ancestors, with no understanding of the code. Based on how quickly political messaging can become dogma among the political class that peddles it over time, it doesn't seem like it'd take long for people to forget it was code - and not like anyone who remembered would go "Actually, when I say Cherokee princess that's just code for saying my great-grandma was black".

escapegoat posted:

Zedhe Khoja posted:

Finally, Greece is back home with mother Bulgaria, where she belongs.

Orange Devil posted:

Pretty sure that when Armenia was a client state of the Roman Empire, western Europe was uhh *checks notes* oh yeah, part of the Roman Empire.

Platystemon posted:

It’s beautiful.

VictualSquid posted:

Now do it again while remembering that Britain has land borders with turkey and spain. And also French new guinea exists.

VictualSquid posted:

Now do it again while remembering that Britain has land borders with turkey and spain. And also French new guinea exists.

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

We had our chance

VictualSquid posted:

Now do it again while remembering that Britain has land borders with turkey and spain. And also French new guinea exists.

RocknRollaAyatollah posted:

But I don't want to have the state of Pontus! I don't loving want to have the state of Pontus!

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

I don't know if this is a reference to anything but I read it in a Mark Corrigan voice

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

Golbez posted:

What about territories, so we can include things like UK-Spain, France-Netherlands?)

Cat Mattress posted:

3D Megadoodoo posted:

That's not how maps work, though.

Kennel posted:

Guavanaut posted:

I prefer this to the real world.

Kennel posted:

The hard-to-grasp part is that with a precise north/south swap the Americas were much much lower on that map.

Something like this, I guess (Antarctica ignored, because it would make things worse)

SlothfulCobra posted:

Count Roland posted:

This is very peculiar definition of country. Gibraltar, really?

Surprising to see countries like Georgia and Ethiopia on there, which have actual armed forces including tanks that have been in wars with neighbouring countries in the past 20 years.

This map gets stranger the closer I look at it. Repubic of Congo (Brazzaville) spends more on its military than DR Congo (Kinshasa)? Benin spends more than Kenya? How many of these countries are just "no data"?

Count Roland posted:

This is very peculiar definition of country. Gibraltar, really?

Surprising to see countries like Georgia and Ethiopia on there, which have actual armed forces including tanks that have been in wars with neighbouring countries in the past 20 years.

This map gets stranger the closer I look at it. Repubic of Congo (Brazzaville) spends more on its military than DR Congo (Kinshasa)? Benin spends more than Kenya? How many of these countries are just "no data"?