AHC: Explain this map

Hello12

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Come up with a scenario that explains this map being in 1930. The scenario can start prior to 1900.
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The eastern borders, at least, might make a little bit of sense with a Continental Congress-like USA that never progresses beyond an uneasy military alliance and thus all major states keep their Western land claims.
 
God I hate posts like this, they are lazy and unimaginative; it looks like OP literally just grabbed a map of the US and edited it in Paint for 2 minutes
 

Hello12

Banned
God I hate posts like this, they are lazy and unimaginative; it looks like OP literally just grabbed a map of the US and edited it in Paint for 2 minutes
I'm willing to learn from some constructive criticism. It's actually using Corel Draw Home & Student X7, and it was free-hand not from a base map though I did keep flipping back to the internet to look at different maps like of the Great Souix Nation and Deseret for inspiration, and it took me 3 hours.
 
Well, although many of the borders here won't "work", this seems to be a variant of the USA fracturing possibly in the early 19th century, due to a foundational document better than the Articles of Confederation but not as strong as the OTL Constitution. There is some consolidation of states, and westward extension. Lots of pother possibilities, but the further west you go the less the borders make sense - assuming some sort of Balkanized North America, you'll probably see a lot of borders that run along "natural divisions" such as mountain ranges or major rivers, not the nice straight lines you get with negotiated borders and/or internal divisions within a country.

For example the disconnected red of Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota and the UP of Michigan does not make sense (the purple in between bits of red). Just one example...
 
Looks like settlement started and developed mid-continent. The asset Coast is only defined by a handful of navigable rivers. But civilization never really reached the south east. By then surveyors were so tired, they just drew straight lines with no regard for mountains or rivers.
 
The original colonies never give up their western land claims after the revolution. From the looks of the map they just extended them west after the Louisiana Purchase.
 
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