I have rewritten the description slightly (changes pending) and added a caveat, I apologize if I came off as rude in some of my comments, I didn't realize people would misinterpret it to mean directly north or south, regardless if these changes still leave people confused I'm not sure what to do without writing a very long and clunky description, so I'll just have to leave this be.
Fun fact California is the only state to fail both of these criteria, it is both more south than Mexico at points and more North than Canada at points.
Yeah I guess I hadn't considered California being level with Canada too bc borders are pretty much always gonna eliminate you from things like this (although ig US/Canada couldve been a rare exception with the massive 49th parallel border)
This description was actually clearer to me. I was confused and really bombed this! It's a very clever quiz, but if you could re-write the description a little, it would be helpful to those of us who take the quiz before the coffee kicks in! :)
This explanation could really help the description. For a good minute, I also thought we were looking for states where going north or south hits the Canadian or Mexican border.
There are six states in this quiz that are north of Mexico, south of Canada, and have part of their territory that overlaps longitudinally with Mexico.
I also answered the quiz question based on longitude. The quiz instructions should make it clear that the quiz relates to latitude. For example, “which states are latitudinally entirely south of Canada and entirely north of Mexico”.
Many states are "between" Canada and Mexico in the sense that if you go north from any point in the state you will reach Canada, and if you go south you will reach Mexico--for example, Iowa--yet they do not meet the ambiguous betweenness criteria of the quiz. The current instructions don't cover this case well: Iowa is "entirely south" of Canada because every point in Iowa is south of Canada; it's just not the case that Canada is entirely north of Iowa.
Also uh West Virginia didn't work.
Seems to have trended on facebook as an interesting map.
US states that are more north than Mexico's north most point and more south than Canada's south most point.
• 41.68147°, the southernmost point of Canada in the Peelee Islands; and
• 32.78169°, the northernmost point of Mexico at Los Algodones,
Then what states would lie entirely between those two lines, without overlapping either of them?
The description said longitude isn't a factor.
I thought that the states have to be south of Canada and north of Mexico just like Utah, Montana, Idaho, New Mexico or Oregon.
I didn't realized that all of territory of the state have to be south of Canada and north of Mexico.
And because of that I didn't get anything right and I was really confused why these states that I mentioned aren't working.
Many states are "between" Canada and Mexico in the sense that if you go north from any point in the state you will reach Canada, and if you go south you will reach Mexico--for example, Iowa--yet they do not meet the ambiguous betweenness criteria of the quiz. The current instructions don't cover this case well: Iowa is "entirely south" of Canada because every point in Iowa is south of Canada; it's just not the case that Canada is entirely north of Iowa.