Trickery along state lines

I look at the view in Montana

then I look at the view in Wyoming,

just about 40 miles from the 1^st picture…

 and I ask myself,

“Was there trickery involved in drawing those state lines?”

You get the same feeling when you cross from New Mexico into Texas.

You go from brown to productive fields  that are irrigated in Texas.

And then I remember a National Geographic article about the aquifers from Kansas that extend down south. 

They follow a perfectly straight line east of the Texas  panhandle-NM border.

Someone had a heck of a lot more knowledge about underground water 

when they drew those lines than the negotiators in the adjacent state!