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I definitely see the problem with using maple leaves, too. Now they're justified - the leaf began as a symbol of Canada in the TTL sense, which is to say, of modern Quebec. Maybe there's a more elegant way to incorporate it into a flag design? I keep coming back to the historical problem here...

OK everyone. The OTL Quebec flag was always something of a placeholder, mostly because I like it a lot. But with Illinois there's starting to be a lot of fleurs-de-lis around. When one looks at the whole set of flags, I don't want the fleur-de-lis to be like a sign saying "By the way, we speak...

Historical map: Illinois's counties as they were originally drawn, to give an idea of how it evolved.

Carolina's not looking so bad, either.

I love the map too, but there should definitely be more than two. Can you really imagine US Democrats and Juche members participating in the same party?

That sounds exactly right.

That won't be for a while... a place to start is that the three southwestern counties, and some areas adjacent to them, have a definite Virginian/Chesapian culture. The southeast and center is ethnocultural Illinois by majority. Peoria itself can be labeled high diversity, and so can the...

So here's the thing about that. A big part of what drives this project is imagining American culture without the rootlessness at the center of its narrative and character. Everything about the Illinois Metis came from a visit to Fort de Chartres. The museum has a lot about the French culture...

Here are counties with names. Notice that I split one southeastern county in two. EDIT: I split another. Sorry @Gian if that means headache for you. Explanation of the place-names: Culpeper, Vandalia, and Harper: The Anglo-Virginian settlers who farmed the upper Kaskasquia River organized...

So I'm pretty satisfied with these Illinois counties - and I think they're called counties (Fr. comtés), since the first people to organize civil subdivisions were the minority English in the south-central part of the state. They established what became the row of three along the border there. I...

Coming along very nice! I see how the subdivisions are helping. I have a map going for Illinois and I'd like to get going on Upper Virginia. Two things so far: 1. Madawaska (the little enclave to the north of New Hampshire) is VERY proud of its Acadian heritage. Probably some adjacent parts of...

That would be a slightly longer process to draw, though not crazy long. Most of Illinois's borders are easy to trace from state-level maps that already exist. I can say that Illinois's divisions don't have the storied past that you see in some other states. No captured chiefdoms or would-be...

This is an idea for a flag of Illinois, along with a more detailed history. The three Capetian lilies had been known in Louisiana since the earliest times of French occupation. When Louisianan planters repudiated the Revolutionary regime in order to maintain slavery, they used royalist...