Interesting, TIL. My intuition when looking at maps somehow had me wrongly estimate California as larger than Texas. But Alaska is of course in a league of its own.
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Sincerely, Australia; where two states are bigger than Alaska, and all but 2 states and 1 of 2 real internal territories are bigger than itty-bitty Texas.
TIL the claimed Australian Antarctic Territory is six times the size of Texas.
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Bigger in everyway! Bigger crime, bigger gun problem, bigger capture by oil companies, bigger environmental damage, bigger racism, bigger highways... The list goes on!
Bigger douchebags
Not to defend Texas, but Alaska has waaaaaay more crime. At least if we're talking about violent crimes. I wanted to move there once, but I decided against that based mostly on that factor. Approximately 8 in every 1000 people will commit a violent crime in Alaska. For reference, Texas is about 5.
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*does not include bigger area
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My favorite Texas dig is: If you cut Alaska in half, Texas would be the third biggest state.
Alaska: "We have the biggest state!"
Texas: "How long does it take to drive across?"
Alaska: "We wouldn't know, we've never left Anchorage."
Alaska: our mountains are so huge, weather so severe, and land so vast, that mankind does not have the ability to build roads across our state. Come at me, Texas.
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Russia: We can fix that.
If they keep their Berings Strait!