Since we're playing this game:
If they [Noah Smith] applied the same chronological metric to the US none of it would be the US which is the reality OP showcased but somehow they are never consistent.
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Noticed the same. It's not even a hard thing to understand.
Death to the settler-colonial entity know us "The United States of America", sometimes called AmeriKKKa.
This would do really well as a 2-variable projection: length of control (hue) and length of statehood (saturation).
You'd get a lot of colors and shades along and across state lines.