Some time ago i
stumbled upon this timeline which I enjoyed quite a lot! So I sat down and wrote a kind of addition to it for the "european aspect" of it. In my addition or modification of that timeline, the USA faces a development somehow like USSR/Russia in the 90s. I made some former states declare independency (even though I might need to overthink the certain states who did so, because it was something like the idea of a second and not so well considered). My timeline ends with the upcoming of the internet and a perspective of the net revolution.
Now I kind of get amazed with the idea of the former USA to get more and more fragmented, which will lead to a crisis and the forming of a "CIS"-like organisation to keep a certain bond across the former member states.
My idea now is, that in California thinks might develope in another direction. There might be a declarance of independence of a californian state, which in my idea is followed some time after by the hispano-californians proclaim a separate hispano-californian state. Which might lead to a war. In addition I could imagine that some people might not like the idea of a however californian state anyway, and those could take action for remaining inside the USA.
In my timeline the eastern bloc is still at large and more or less well going, so I thought, that the USSR might support one of the "Californias" and maybe China the other one, both to gain access to the economy in california and to get a grip on technologic knowledge useful for building computers and the internet.
What do you think? Does that scenario make sense at all?
I'm happy about suggestions of any kind!
(Please excuse my bad English!)
(thats my very very preliminary map of the states, in German, and, like mentioned, I need to rethink the states declaring independency. )