What does the speaker mean by the words 'as strange to your town as your talk'? ( Supplementary Reader Buzzwords, Lesson 13 "Comedy of Errors")

The answer is it organized land into districts. territories, and states.this ordinance created by thomas jefferson established a set of guidelines and procedures for a territory wanting to apply to be a state in the union. it also ensured that these territories in the northwest would not be slave states.