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This is an impressive piece of work. The numbers work out very nicely, and I especially like the fact that English is the top native language but French is the top language when you add L1 and L2 speakers together. I never got to my third language post, which will be about the remaining...

This fits in perfectly, if you ask me. A Salt Lake that avoids the cliche of "Yet Another Mormon State." For what it's worth, the Mormon presence in the region is negligible - their main area of settlement was along the Missouri River.

That stems from the separate out-of-universe origin of the Imperial Commonwealth: as an unapologetic Russo-wank in which the tsars more-or-less continued to rule every bit of territory they ever held or dreamed of holding. With no regard to the historic contexts of the various parts of it. It...

They'd be called a Pennamite. (The term Pennsylvanian also exists, and it's more of a civic term, while Pennamite is more of an ethno-cultural term.) I'm searching for a term that could cover the English of Pennsylvania, Christiana, and the inland territories that they influenced.

Hello from Quarantine! To explain my long absence, I moved at the end of January. The desktop computer where I do all my maps and such got packed into boxes. And there it remains, since in the new place I still don't have a desk. I didn't feel right using a laptop from work to do alternate...

I'd been trying to sort of graft the open-mouth head from the Gadsden snake onto the more stretched-out snake's body, but my graphic skills weren't up to it.

I do prefer the more aggressive snake for Lower Virginia.

I don't have SVG files. Learning Inkscape has been on my to-do list for years but I never did.

Well that makes me feel a little better about posting this, I've been making it gradually for a long while now using your 8k-BAM. It's kind of a perfect projection for this kind of map. It's cool that you're tweaking the flags I made. Please don't be offended if I keep using mine, though...

But I'm pretty sure that there are no other Californian states with previously posted flags. No flag yet for the Union as a whole, either. Both the states of Pietas and Supremacia are in need of revision, I think, starting with their rather less-than-plausible names. But yes, there are other...

Tying up some loose ends: I want to post this revision to the content list from a few pages back, taking into account some recent end-of-year discussion as well as a few older things that I had missed. I met my personal goal of having something on all 51 states by the end of the year. It really...

Welcome! And thank you very much! I really thought I had worked some version of the Melungeons into the history of Watauga, but I guess they didn't make it. I wonder if they ended up migrating somewhere else, Ohio would probably have been more welcoming than Watauga was. Or maybe there are...

I think that's a pretty good argument. That implies that New Amsterdam will also be known for its Jewish community, similar to New York. But of course the vastly different history of Central and Eastern Europe means that it won't be exactly the same as what we know from our timeline...

Well that's an area needing development, if you feel inspired by the culture or politics of any of the states.

You were interested in California. What do you think of it?

Yes, it was a haven for people who were persecuted elsewhere. Jews, Anabaptists, and so forth. Toleration wasn't the same as religious freedom in the modern sense, but it was the seventeenth century and it was one of the most tolerant societies around.

OTL New Netherland had an official religion but was known for its tolerance - it's been plausibly argued that NN was the birthplace of American pluralism. Director Stuyvesant was very devout and tried at points to enforce the official faith, to go against the tide of toleration. In TTL either...

This new information also implies that some German elements will be woven into the culture of New Netherland, depending on the region. As for where surviving enclaves of the German language might be found, the outskirts seem most likely. The middle Mohawk Valley was once known as the German...

It's a good plan. It also suggests a more decentralized state.

That's a correct assumption. Well it might not be fair to call it the language of diplomacy, since other common languages certainly are used, but looking at the setting so far it's quite clear that French is going to be the default language between diplomats from different language backgrounds...