Remember that middle-school geography question about how many colors it takes to fill in a map of the United States so that no state borders another of the same color?

My question is, how many colors does it take to fill in the map so that each state borders only others of the same color?

One would seem to be the obvious answer. But it looks like we’re getting pretty close using two.

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