Growing online theory says Wyoming doesn't exist

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — To live in Wyoming is to face a fundamental existential question: Does the state exist and if not, what does that mean for those who live here?

Much like Shakespeare’s famous rhetorical “to be, or not to be,” residents of an assumed state may exist on an unconscious level. But does that assumption hold when applied to an entire state?

Can we be, but still not be Wyomingites?

Wyoming residents reading a Wyoming newspaper, presumably within the rectangular allotment of land labeled on most maps as “Wyoming,” are likely to believe in their own existence. And to that point, they would probably be right, the Gillette News-Record reports.

But for a growing subset of the internet — comprised of some who live in Wyoming, but mostly those who don’t — the idea that Wyoming doesn’t exist is gaining traction.

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