New U.S. states

Here's my suggestion for a United North America flag:

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Puerto Rico and DC if we keept it OTL.
Change some history you could add the Philippines, and a number of the Pacific Island Chains, and maybe Panama.
 
lol what? It would just be a 51 or 52 star US flag with 13-stripes. What's with these funky stars and the lack of Union Jack derivatives? This isn't the NAU thread. :D
 
lol what? It would just be a 51 or 52 star US flag with 13-stripes. What's with these funky stars and the lack of Union Jack derivatives? This isn't the NAU thread. :D

My mistake. I thought that the new states that were being admitted were from Mexico and the Caribbean.
 
Last attempt was in 1965. I would support it. Very little in common with northern California except for the onerous government in Sacramento. It could be just as bad, but I could hope.

I recall voting in an election that had the split in it-early 90's I believe.

On the Philippines, if they had joined the Union, it should have been as three states-Luzon, Mindanao and Visayu (for the islands in between).
 
Other side of the pond

How about the UK, many on the far left of the spectrum regarded it as the 51st state under Margaret Thatcher and especially under Tony B.Liar.
 
On the Philippines, if they had joined the Union, it should have been as three states-Luzon, Mindanao and Visayu (for the islands in between).

Philippines admission to the Union is a totally ASB. Vast distances, opposite timezones, vulnerability to Islamic separatists in Mindanao, and most of all, Philippine demographics will be an issue and in a long-run Americans especially the bigots will not tolerate 10 million browns as their citizens.

Only Puerto Rico or Cuba had US occupied it totally have the chance to be an another US state because of its proximity to US, more American involvement in their economy and smaller population than the Philippines.
 
How about the UK, many on the far left of the spectrum regarded it as the 51st state under Margaret Thatcher and especially under Tony B.Liar.

Despite cultural ties, I can assure you that Socially and Politically the entire UK is completely incompatible with US statehood (for example, our Right is slightly further Left than the US Left), and despite political observations of subservience to the US, the notion of actually surrendering sovereignity to Washington has never been a serious consideration.
 
It's never really amounted to much, but there are some in eastern Washington who would like to have their own state with Spokane as the capital.

And I hope PR becomes a state someday.
 
There's occasional noise here on the Island about seceding from New York to be our own state, but since I'm given to understand that it would have to be approved by Albany, I can't see it ever happening.
 
There's occasional noise here on the Island about seceding from New York to be our own state, but since I'm given to understand that it would have to be approved by Albany, I can't see it ever happening.

Jon Stewart made fun of that once. :D

And as an honourary Long Islander I find myself agreeing with the sentiment, but I'm unsure how viable the state could be. Although, with more people than most other states I'm sure it would be able to make something work...
 
What about bringing in Guam and American Samoa together as the fifty first state. Together they have a population of 244,000, about what Alaska had when it became a state. Also, why couldn't the U.S. Virgin Islands become a county of either Puerto Rico, if it becomes a state, or of Florida?
 
Congress will not admit Puerto Rico as a state until the island becomes majority English speaking. If Puerto Rico became independent, most Americans wouldn't care. The island seems satisfied with its current commonwealth status. The Virgin Islands will not become a state because it is too small, and the people there are unlikely to agree to become incorporated by Puerto Rico as its much greater population will de facto take away any control they have over their own lives. Any of the Pacific territories are likewise too small and too geographically far away.

There are various movements in multiple states to split them into separate states. None of them enjoy broad based support and are fringe movements. Still, historically it is possible to have created such states, or determine different state boundaries. As far as I know, there is no movement to combine existing states into a merged state.

There is no possibility of any foreign country entering the union. The only real candidate would be the provinces of Canada, and that is unlikely to happen for the next hundred years or so. There would probably be much soft support for such a thing among Americans (meaning they would welcome it), but very little hard support (meaning active advocates). And among Canadians, there is a very strong population that would be against it with a much smaller group being indifferent, and an even smaller group that would welcome it. However, I think eventually some kind of Canadian entry into the Union (outside Quebec) is probably inevitable given historical processes.
 
Congress will not admit Puerto Rico as a state until the island becomes majority English speaking.

How do you know this? You really think the Republicans want to alienate tens of millions of voters of Hispanic descent any more than they've already alienated them?

The Virgin Islands will not become a state because it is too small, and the people there are unlikely to agree to become incorporated by Puerto Rico as its much greater population will de facto take away any control they have over their own lives.

But wouldn't there be advantages to these islanders of becoming part of Florida?

Any of the Pacific territories are likewise too small and too geographically far away.

Hawaii and Alaska are also "far away." And the issue isn't just smallness of territory but smallness of population. If the latter is an issue, why did Alaska ever become a state? Or Wyoming in earlier days? Of course this assumes these islanders want to become a state, which may not be the case. Congress would probably welcome the people of Guam, who have a long history of serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, but might be reluctant about the less functional society of America Samoa.
 
How about the UK, many on the far left of the spectrum regarded it as the 51st state under Margaret Thatcher and especially under Tony B.Liar.

You mean like this?

(State name - # of represenitives in the House)

Scotland - 9
Northumbria - 25
Mercia - 20
Wales - 5
Wessex - 8
Londonia - 30

Britain as US States.jpg
 
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