Name a state ...
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Answer
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that borders at least 7 other states
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Missouri | Tennessee | Colorado | Kentucky
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whose capital starts with A
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Georgia | Maine | Maryland | New York | Texas
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admitted to the Union during the Civil War
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West Virginia | Nevada
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with more males than females
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Alaska | North Dakota | Wyoming | South Dakota | Utah | Montana | Colorado | Idaho | Nevada | Hawaii
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where less than 20% of land is forested
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North Dakota | Nebraska | South Dakota | Kansas | Iowa | Illinois | Nevada | Wyoming
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where at least 5% of residents are Mormon (other than Utah)
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Alaska | Arizona | Idaho | Wyoming
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whose capital was named for a President
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Mississippi | Missouri | Nebraska | Wisconsin
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where at least 14.9% of workers are employed in manufacturing
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Indiana | Michigan | Wisconsin | Iowa | Ohio
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with more cows than people
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South Dakota | Nebraska | Montana | North Dakota | Wyoming | Kansas | Idaho | Iowa | Oklahoma
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where at least 40% of residents live in the largest city
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New York | Alaska
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that shares its name with a tributary of the Mississippi River
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Arkansas | Iowa | Illinois | Minnesota | Missouri | Ohio | Tennessee | Wisconsin
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that gets less than 1 tornado per year on average
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Alaska | Rhode Island | Vermont
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that doesn't have state income tax
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Alaska | Florida | Nevada | South Dakota | Tennessee |
Texas | Washington | Wyoming
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that has no cities with a population over 100,000
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Delaware | Maine | Vermont | West Virginia | Wyoming
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that mines more coal than Pennsylvania
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West Virginia | Wyoming
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with a U.S. military academy
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Connecticut | Colorado | Maryland | New York
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where Ernest Hemingway lived
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Illinois | Missouri | Florida | Idaho
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voted for Trump in 2016 but Biden in 2020
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Arizona | Georgia | Michigan | Pennsylvania | Wisconsin
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became a state in 1959
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Alaska | Hawaii
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that has a Z in its name
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Arizona
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My gut feeling is it can, but I also recognize there's a lot of weirdness to it. Like you can't cross a border that's a singular point without also temporarily crossing the borders of a third state.
But even though the Four Corners may be a single point on the ground, I'd assume there's also a vertical component to the borders as well (air space). That's a line. I'm no mathematician, but I believe that's the z-axis
So, ostensibly if you're cool with borders that touch along an x or y axis on the ground, then shouldn't a z axis count as well? Or do two states need to share a geometric plane to be considered bordering?
Really, though, in the politics of borders and geography, how much does math really matter if Congress can just pass a law declaring something to be so? Anyway, I'm just thinking out loud...