Jack of Harts

The Continental United States of America has a pair of geographical borders and a pair of negotiated borders. The East and West Coast are fairly hard to dispute. The Northern Border is a mix of a geographical and arbitrary border that has not been disputed with Canada for over a century. The geographical border was formed after our 13 Colonies rebelled from Great Britain and the English loyalists moved north of the river and lakes we did not control. We later agreed that the rivers and lakes would continue to separate us until we ran out of rivers and lakes. Then we agreed upon an arbitrary border going all the way to the West Coast and that border has been good ever since. Our Southern Border’s history is a bit more interesting.