Map challenge: Better US state

Witch0Winter

Witch0Winter

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TimTurner said:
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Felt inspired and did this for the scenario
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Tomislav Addai

Tomislav Addai

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Essentially added states for the 5 Civilized tribes except Seminoles, added a Navajo and Sioux state, unified most of New England, enforced Virginias, Carolinases and Georgias westward claims, greater Deseret, and abolished Washington state
 

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Doctor President

This concept is based on an old Zompist article which suggests that one of the problems with the states is that they're the wrong size- to small to be a balance against the federal government and big business but too big to really be a local government, and suggests redrawing the state borders to create a smaller number of larger states as one solution. I'm not sure if the idea has merit, but I decided to map out how it might work in practice. The number I ended up with was 13 states, which wasn't intentional, but I like the symbolism. There are a few small states remaining mixed in with the larger ones as I prioritized keeping cultural and geographical regions together over giving all 13 similar populations.

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California
Capital: Sacramento
Population: 48,600,000

Cascadia
Capital: Seattle
Population: 13,900,000

Chesapeake
Capital: Baltimore
Population: 25,800,000

East Dixie
Capital: Savannah
Population: 45,600,000

Hawaii
Capital: Honolulu
Population: 1,400,000

New England
Capital: Boston
Population: 13,800,000

New York
Capital: New York City
Population: 28,800,000

Puerto Rico
Capital: San Juan
Population: 3,600,000

Rio Grande
Capital: Albuquerque
Population: 8,400,000

Texas
Capital: Austin
Population: 30,500,000

The Midwest
Capital: Chicago
Population: 73,800,000

Utah
Capital: Salt Lake City
Population: 3,500,000

West Dixie
Capital: Savannah
Population: 27,800,000
 
Redcoat

Redcoat

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Behold my shitty map based mostly on natural borders. This is all freehand so that will explain a lot about this map.
 
JorgeGG

JorgeGG

Tomislav Addai said:
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Essentially added states for the 5 Civilized tribes except Seminoles, added a Navajo and Sioux state, unified most of New England, enforced Virginias, Carolinases and Georgias westward claims, greater Deseret, and abolished Washington state
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And other changes. From what I see one Dakota, New Mexico+Arizona (name?), a bigger Idaho, a smaller Wyoming and Colorado. What is left on the north end of New England is it Maine?
 

Luminous

Doctor President said:
Look at New Hampshire and Vermont...
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I saw those, yeah. I mean, it kinda made a little more sense to me considering former New Hampshire claims on Vermont and generally how small they are.

But seeing a random county in Virginia declaring for NC? That was even more surprising. Does anyone have any history behind that?
 
AmericanAdam

AmericanAdam

Luminous said:
I saw those, yeah. I mean, it kinda made a little more sense to me considering former New Hampshire claims on Vermont and generally how small they are.

But seeing a random county in Virginia declaring for NC? That was even more surprising. Does anyone have any history behind that?
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I don't have about the history of the county, my guess is that it wanted to join North Carolina because of laws or something like that
 
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