Remove US state borders, create outlined regions in ggplot2/geom_polygon
I'm mapping the following table of multi-drug resistance trends in the US: MDR by region Using the following code: states_map<-map_data('state') m <- ggplot(ncftrendsort, aes(map_id = region)) + geom_map(aes(fill = ncftrendsort$mdr), map = states_map, color = 'black') + expand_limits(x = states_map$long, y = states_map$lat) + theme_classic() + scale_fill_continuous(name = "% MDR", low = 'white', high = 'black') + theme(axis.title.y = element_blank()) + theme(axis.title.x = element_blank()) + theme(axis.line = element_blank()) + theme(axis.ticks = element_blank()) + theme(axis.text.x = element