Geography Awareness

In honor of Geography Awareness week, National Geographic has an online feature showing Senators' drawings of their home states. I know from personal experience that Americans aren't the most geographically aware. I once handed out a survey to Juniors and Seniors at my high school that asked, among other things, for a basic drawing of the world; at least five people put Antarctica at the top of the map. But these were high school students; you would assume our U.S. Senators would do a better job. Most of them did, but I'd recommend looking at Senator Saxby Chambliss's drawing of his state of Georgia, which looks more like Mississippi: