you think that's a shocker, the western Florida panhandle used to stretch all the way to Louisiana!
That’s not nearly as far as this though

And theirs was all connected into one continuous piece of land. Their panhandle would have been about 488 miles long total, while Connecticut’s extra region would be 746 miles long on its own (only counting the extra area, I didn’t go all the way to Connecticut’s current border as the most east point. I stopped at NY). Area wise, the total Connecticut area dropped 10x through the loss of this extra land too, while Floridas barely changed comparatively (0.22 times).
Also Florida at that time was divided into east and west Florida, not a single Florida. But even if we combine them, the nonsense Connecticut wins
