Map Thread XIV
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The Salt Lake Strip isn’t a very good candidate for a state. I’d give alt-Wyoming OTL’s borders and merge the rest of it with alt-Idaho.
You know, I think we’re to the point where we can safely say it’s an inverse “THAT UTAHN BORDERRRRRRR!”
That's what I get for making a tidy little box shape by drawing across from the old Louisiana border I guess. I shall adjust it when it comes to the final product.
I like this a lot, but I must say I really don't like the "northern Louisiana border" that appears fairly frequently. I don't see that specific border as being something that will stay around; it wasn't exactly concrete in OTL, as far as I know. Great Plains Confederacy is a neat cliche, one I use myself, but I would suggest changing it up a bit where possible.
Always liked this potential West Virginia - it would have had an interesting development with those borders for sure.
The inclusion of those three NOVA counties is going to play hell with its political balance over time.
forget politics, between NOVA and the I81 corridor, what will it do to West Virginia's economy?
Isaac Beach
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Well actually this is probably the first map of mine which has a Great Plains Confederacy or similar native state, and only my second map that uses the north Louisiana border. So its not particularly a cliché for me.
Besides, it works. All you need is one apathetic intern cartographer to be handed a few maps and a ruler and they could conceivably come to that conclusion. It happened in the Partition of India for example and that involved hundreds of millions of people.
Ooh, interesting. As in the other map, I love what you've done with the language evolution. As a Savannah dweller, I worry that the scenario you've mapped would not be a stable one, since surely neither our city nor Charleston would accept being ruled by the other. Maybe we can build a Canberra-like capital at Beaufort or Yemassee? Anyway, thanks for sharing with us. I enjoyed seeing your take on this region's future.
Lookin' good so far. What's the significance of the color of Bigass *Argentina?
This map showing percent slaves by county is instructive: was the map based on it? https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3881e.cw1047000/
More info here: http://www.virginiaplaces.org/boundaries/wvboundary.html
Thanks.
Basically the United Provinces really took off, think of it as kind of a low-energy version of its equivalent in Look to the West. It's quite an important liberal aligned country and locked into a Col-War style conflict with the conservative Viceroyalty of Peru which has managed to hoover up most of the remaining Spanish possessions.
January 1942
At the end of 1941, Mexico and Argentina fell into civil war, as socialist insurgencies backed by the UAWR broke out. The sleeping giant of America stirred and directly intervened in the Mexican Civil War, the army which had swollen over the last few years, sent south to aid their southern 'comrades'. Argentina on the other hand, felt left out and in the shade. At the moment, Mexico and the Philippines are the only official members of the newborn Liberty International alongside the UAWR, but Cuba, Paraguay and Liberia have long been close to Washington, and it is quite clear that the American government has grand plans for the Western Hemisphere.
The declaration of war in support of the Mexican revolutionaries has seen the Abraham Lincoln Legion recalled back home to wage a war of liberation in the shadow of the mother country. The loss of these volunteers has not worried the Anti-Fascist Alliance. The Axis advance has halted and begun to crumble. In East Asia, Japanese troops cut off in Cambodia have gone rogue, killing their Kempetai officers and turning bandit. While British forces advance into Burma and the French remain disorganised, this situation has been allowed to continue. The Italy advances in North Africa have begun to be turned back, and while the keeps up a crawling advance in East Africa, she has been denied access to Lake Victoria. Soviet forces advance across the Middle East and threaten to reopen the Suez Canal to Anti-Fascist forces. The Soviets continue the long slog west into occupied Eastern Europe, while the Danish with British support have made a leap southwards into Northern Germany. The industry and manpower of the Axis has been stretched quite far. Now, the fightback begins.
At the end of 1941, Mexico and Argentina fell into civil war, as socialist insurgencies backed by the UAWR broke out. The sleeping giant of America stirred and directly intervened in the Mexican Civil War, the army which had swollen over the last few years, sent south to aid their southern 'comrades'. Argentina on the other hand, felt left out and in the shade. At the moment, Mexico and the Philippines are the only official members of the newborn Liberty International alongside the UAWR, but Cuba, Paraguay and Liberia have long been close to Washington, and it is quite clear that the American government has grand plans for the Western Hemisphere.
The declaration of war in support of the Mexican revolutionaries has seen the Abraham Lincoln Legion recalled back home to wage a war of liberation in the shadow of the mother country. The loss of these volunteers has not worried the Anti-Fascist Alliance. The Axis advance has halted and begun to crumble. In East Asia, Japanese troops cut off in Cambodia have gone rogue, killing their Kempetai officers and turning bandit. While British forces advance into Burma and the French remain disorganised, this situation has been allowed to continue. The Italy advances in North Africa have begun to be turned back, and while the keeps up a crawling advance in East Africa, she has been denied access to Lake Victoria. Soviet forces advance across the Middle East and threaten to reopen the Suez Canal to Anti-Fascist forces. The Soviets continue the long slog west into occupied Eastern Europe, while the Danish with British support have made a leap southwards into Northern Germany. The industry and manpower of the Axis has been stretched quite far. Now, the fightback begins.
Crossposting from MotF.
A map of Indo-Europe, 2084
Capital: Moscow
Language: Neo-Indo-European, based on a reconstruction of PIE
Currency: Euro
A map of Indo-Europe, 2084
Capital: Moscow
Language: Neo-Indo-European, based on a reconstruction of PIE
Currency: Euro
Good ol' plucky North Korea. Still fighting against globalists, imperialists and space-filling empires well into the future.Crossposting from MotF.
A map of Indo-Europe, 2084
Capital: Moscow
Language: Neo-Indo-European, based on a reconstruction of PIE
Currency: Euro
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