How badly can we Balkanize North America?

I don't think Alaska would do well on its own, but a Russian Alaska that also included the Pacific Northwest would be something to see. Cascadia NOW!

I've actually always been curious to see a Russian Cascadia as a viable entity. It's appreciably difficult to accomplish but could be interesting if done right.
 
If the Caribbean, Greenland, Central America and Hawaii don't count as being part of North America, then technically Cascadia and California shouldn't count as being part of North America either- they're parts of the Farallon and Pacific plates respectively.
I think you might be being a bit overly technical in terms of definitions, if you ask the average person on the street what North America was I honestly think you'd get the majority of people saying Canada, the US, and Mexico with Central American and the Caribbean being separate.
 

SinghKing

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I think you might be being a bit overly technical in terms of definitions, if you ask the average person on the street what North America was I honestly think you'd get the majority of people saying Canada, the US, and Mexico with Central American and the Caribbean being separate.

Would those be the average people on the streets of the USA, by any chance? Because I'm sure that average people on the streets of Central America and the Caribbean would feel very differently.
 
Would those be the average people on the streets of the USA, by any chance? Because I'm sure that average people on the streets of Central America and the Caribbean would feel very differently.

Most Haitians I know (including myself) feel separate from both North and South America. So do most other Caribbeans I know.
 
Personally, I feel that when speaking of countries and peoples, it is more natural to group them by language and culture than by continental plate. Not least because groping people by continental plate leads to silliness like every country on the Baltic Shield becoming a Baltic country. Completely at odds with the commonly understood use of the term.

Which is why I specified North America as the area covered by the three large coutries.

However, if we do want to throw in Central America and the Caribbean, can we have a Simon Bolivarlike figure, or a process, that unites most of Central America and the Caribbean?

Turning the area into the great power of north America, throwing its weight around with the smaller entities?
 
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