--- title: Ben Carson: Twitter Users Have Field Day With Misdrawn Map description: Map hillariously rearranges most of the Northeast canonical: https://time.com/4119265/ben-carson-map-twitter/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-18T23:22:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:42:26.305Z article:section: Politics og:title: Twitter Users Had a Field Day With Ben Carson's Mistake-Riddled U.S. Map og:description: Map rearranges most of the Northeast og:url: https://time.com/4119265/ben-carson-map-twitter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Twitter Users Had a Field Day With Ben Carson's Mistake-Riddled U.S. Map twitter:description: Map rearranges most of the Northeast twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Twitter Users Had a Field Day With Ben Carson's Mistake-Riddled U.S. Map > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. ## Video: TIME Raw: Ben Carson On Refugees in the U.S. [Watch (HLS stream): TIME Raw: Ben Carson On Refugees in the U.S.](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/wH5PdcX3.m3u8) (0:59)  _Published 2015-11-17_ by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Nov 18, 2015 11:22 PM UTC by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Nov 18, 2015 11:22 PM UTC Twitter users had a field day with a flawed map of the United States released by Ben Carson’s campaign Tuesday night. The map, which is meant to highlight a coalition of governors’ opposition to accepting refugees, misplaces several states in the northeast, moving Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine further up, and giving Vermont and New York newly expansive beachfronts. The really ironic part? As the [Washington _Post_](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/18/ben-carsons-campaign-made-a-u-s-map-and-put-a-bunch-of-states-in-the-wrong-place/) pointed out, this week happens to be Geography Awareness Week. (This error could be attributed to a simple mishap by Carson’s graphic designer, according to [Vox](http://www.vox.com/2015/11/18/9756214/ben-carson-bad-us-map).) > [](https://twitter.com/reidepstein/status/666751819297652736) The Carson campaign, which is currently neck and neck with Donald Trump in polling for the Republican presidential nomination, took the map down from social media Wednesday morning after seeing the mistake. But the map’s removal didn’t stop Twitter, which took the charge in pointing out Carson’s error on Tuesday night and continued on Wednesday to crack jokes about the former neurosurgeon. > [](https://twitter.com/joeveix/status/666785260311412736) > [](https://twitter.com/cdevers/status/666966121745096705) > [](https://twitter.com/ReformedBroker/status/667036534462414848) > [](https://twitter.com/RebeccaBurtRose/status/666865764066922496) ### See What Your Twitter Profile Looked Like Over the Last 10 Years  2006 Wayback Machine  2007 Wayback Machine  2008 Wayback Machine  2009 Wayback Machine  2010 Wayback Machine  2011 Wayback Machine  2012 Wayback Machine  2013 The Next Web  2014 TIME ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4119265/ben-carson-map-twitter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4119265/ben-carson-map-twitter/"},"headline":"Twitter Users Had a Field Day With Ben Carson's Mistake-Riddled U.S. Map","datePublished":"2015-11-18T23:22:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:42:26.305Z","description":"Map rearranges most of the Northeast","url":"https://time.com/4119265/ben-carson-map-twitter/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4119265/ben-carson-map-twitter/","name":"Twitter Users Had a Field Day With Ben Carson's Mistake-Riddled U.S. Map"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"TIME Raw: Ben Carson On Refugees in the U.S.","description":"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/wH5PdcX3/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-11-17T16:52:08.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/wH5PdcX3.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4119265/ben-carson-map-twitter/","duration":"PT59S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4119265/ben-carson-map-twitter/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```