<P> The Jesusland map is an Internet meme created shortly after the 2004 U.S. presidential election that satirizes the red / blue states scheme by dividing the United States and Canada into "The United States of Canada" and "Jesusland". The map implies the existence of a fundamental political divide between contiguous northern and southern regions of North America, the former including both the socially liberal Canada and the West Coast, Northeastern, and Upper Midwestern states, and suggests that these states are closer in spirit to Canada than to the more conservative regions of their own country . (The meme ignores conservative regions of Canada and american United States of Canada states that might not want to join the hypothetical new country .) The Freakonomics blog opined that the map reflected the "despair, division, and bitterness" of the election campaign and results . Slate also covered the image and posited that it might be the reason the Canadian immigration website received six times its usual page views the day after the election . </P> <P> The original image was created on November 3, 2004 by G. Webb, a poster on yakyak.org, an Internet message board for fans of the work of Jeff Minter . It quickly became an Internet meme, which The New York Times described as an "instant Internet classic". </P> <P> The meme is in the form of a map of the U.S. and Canada which depicts a new hypothetical national border between the two countries . The "blue states" from the 2004 election (New England, the Mid-Atlantic states, the Pacific coast, and the Great Lakes states of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) have been merged with Canada to form a single contiguous nation of more than 170 million inhabitants, which is labeled the "United States of Canada ." The remaining "red states" are labeled as "Jesusland". </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section does not cite any sources . Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (October 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table>

A map of canada and the united states