Any suggestions?

North America Today.PNG This is a rough map I've made for a world where the CSA won the civil war and then both countries broke apart. Any suggestions? (I was to lazy to delete the borders and make new ones, even if I have them planned.)

North America Today.PNG
 
What happened in New England? The ACW seems a bit late for the Maritimes to reconcile with their more republican brethren.
 
I dunno, I think that the Brits called the US bluff regarding Oregon Territory/Columbia District. The resulting war resulted in a massive ass-kicking of the American forces by the British, resulting into a greater British Columbia

...then the US started to balkanize.
 
What happened in New England? The ACW seems a bit late for the Maritimes to reconcile with their more republican brethren.

That's not unreasonable. IOTL Atlantic Canada was deeply tied into New England, and the ending of free trade in 1867 crippled them for, oh, 130 years.

ITTL New England being independent means they can follow their economic interests and join up. Plus, who's to say, perhaps ATL New England adopts a parliamentary system with an elected President (i.e. modern France) which would make it more politically acceptable.
 
What happened in New England is that the maritimes united first but then, after the US broke apart they united with their brothers to the south.

In BC/Yukon, BC joined Cascadia, then they got Yukon territory after Canada decided it was more trouble than it was worth, and Alaska after Russia sold it in 1873.

Any other questions?
 
I will throw out my inevitable "1999 borders! Sha! Sha! Kill!" comment, then note that BC in Cascadia and Maritimes in New England are really, really hard to do with a post-1860 POD. If anything, disintegrated US => larger Canada, not "successor states eat chunks of BNA somehow".
 
I will throw out my inevitable "1999 borders! Sha! Sha! Kill!" comment, then note that BC in Cascadia and Maritimes in New England are really, really hard to do with a post-1860 POD. If anything, disintegrated US => larger Canada, not "successor states eat chunks of BNA somehow".

Zyzzyva

I would agree although to a degree that could be what Whatif? is suggesting. Alternatively without a threat from an expansionist US to the south because its falling apart would Confederation look as attractive to BC and to the Maritimes?

I do however think that the situation in the American praires is going to be pretty odd. They were thinly settled anyway and without a strong central government to crush Indian resistance are going to be even less so. Possibly some of the groupings here are tribal confederations that possibly have been recognised by foreign governments.

Steve
 
I will throw out my inevitable "1999 borders! Sha! Sha! Kill!" comment, then note that BC in Cascadia and Maritimes in New England are really, really hard to do with a post-1860 POD. If anything, disintegrated US => larger Canada, not "successor states eat chunks of BNA somehow".

Yeah the modern borders in Canada of 1870 (or whatever) are annoying.

The Maritimes got bribed into Confederation against all their economic interests (they were tightly linked into the New England economy) because it was unlikely the USA would renew free trade after it expired in the post Civil War environment.

The USA as a whole wouldn't want them nor would they bribe them. New England, however, would want them; the Maritimes would prefer to remain part of the British Empire but could plausibly choose to follow their economic interests and join up with New England.
 
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