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I don't know that there's much on the confederal judiciary. A few hints and sketches are out there, but not much. Most criminal law is at the state level, I believe, but the growth of confederal government means that there are certainly crimes that need to be tried at that level. More research...

The Republican English states had a touch of that, for sure. There was maybe nothing like the ubiquitous Federal Style in architecture, but some government buildings were built with a neoclassical look as an homage to Athens and Rome. And with all the local languages, Latin historically...

I've had time to cobble this together. Here it is, the last state in need of content. I'm not yet 100% set on the flag, but this definitely seems good enough; and while it's a bit busier, it better matches traditional designs. (The first version actually looked rather Greek.) !wave Choctaw...

Merry Christmas, everyone. One of my goals for finishing the year was having a flag and basic history for all 51 states. We'll see if that happens, but to that end here's a rough idea for Choctaw, the last state that needs one. Its imagery is a simplified form of the motifs on traditional...

I just like food. :)

Ehh... it still seems overly convergent. For the island to become a summer fun spot is plausible enough, but I don't know if other states would necessarily imitate it so directly. Now it's definitely fair to assume that sausages made by the German community would be big in New Amsterdam. Maybe...

It's as entertaining and delicious as the last one. :) And probably lots of controversial arguments about how to say "chowder". It's probably time to start identifying major immigrant groups to New Amsterdam, at least tentatively. Some easy answers come from the diversity of the ASB itself...

This has come up before, certainly. I even wrote up a convoluted history to give a semi-plausible explanation to the name Pseudodemetrian. The problem, as we've gone along, is that the name really does not work well in actual use, in any context. The official name of the dynasty is...

Aww, Labrador and Ireland are in love.

I think that's about right. It occurs to me that another part of the story could be a shift in the balance of power from the Hudson valley patroons to the City. It may be that the new urban elite had just about had it with the patroons' power in state politics, and saw the renters' revolt as an...

Beautiful song! What I know about the patroons is that their power was eroded bit by bit, and the estates were converted to municipalities, and in most cases split up. They still exist as a recognized traditional class but have no political power at all. They sit in the confederal Council of...

Well given the prominence of the Russia-centered imperial monarchy, there's definitely a lot to that. But I've wanted to avoid a trope where there are monarchs just everywhere for no reason but that we like them. Some areas that are monarchies in OTL, notably Canada, Scotland, and the...

So this is starting to sound like an Idea. And it's one that makes a lot of sense, too. The map of India has very rarely been not in total flux, all the time - even the relative stability of the Princely States during the Raj era was an anomaly, to say nothing of the stability of the generations...

I think you have to actually ask Ian, per this message. Yes, perfectly logical. So that's actually the historical center of the Catawba nation, as true in TTL as in OTL. It's slightly south of our Charlotte and just across the state line - the modern town is Rock Hill, SC. Tracing the...

Well West Dominica (our Haiti) is solidly Black. And all the other Caribbean island states are either majority Black or nearly so. A typical citizen of Lower Louisiana is of mixed White and Black ancestry, and Seminol sees its African heritage as an essential ingredient of its culture. But if by...

Definitely. The usual pattern is a wealthy city center and very poor outlying areas. Also besides the gasoline and car culture, the concept of "poor inner city" has a strong racial component that is different in the ASB. Rural life is also more strongly associated with poverty there, too, except...

So thanks very much for this. It's a great read and it manages to perfectly take the general ideas you posted earlier and expand on them in an interesting way. It gels exactly with established content. I've gone ahead and added dates to the timeline on the Wiki. Feel free to add more (assuming...

Not so random, it's come up before, about a year ago and a year before that. Post 939 quotes most of the discussion. I think most of what was said vibes with your thoughts here. In some states, this impulse was also present. I think it would be fruitful to go back to the origins of the...

And something new: Cuba's history is slowly taking shape, but for now I'll tease this map.

There are some allusions to American literature here and there in the project, but so far none to Dickinson as far as I know. Here's what I can say in general. In OTL, so many of the canonical giants of American literature are from Massachusetts. In TTL, that's also the case, but they're seen as...