Rivalries and alliances between American states

Assuming that the Union of the American states fails and the 13 states become independent countries: What are the obvious enmities between them? For example, the southern states from Maryland and Deleware to georgia seem to have had little or no overlapping territorial claims as reason for conflict, but were there other bones of contention?

Farther north, Conn. had a conflict with Penn., Mass. with NY, NY with NH (and Va.) - and these are just territorial problems. Surely, there were other conflicts over finance, trade and many additional topics.

Can anything be said about plausible alliances between states? Would New Jersey tend to ally with New York or Pennsylvania, Connecticut with Massachusetts or New York? I guess that a simplistic set of geographical blocs (New England, Mid Atlantic, The South) is what would not happen.
 

Jasen777

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Regional blocs could easily happen, I don't know how many of the states would really work out well solo. But it does get complicated once you get out of the South as many of the Mid-Atlantic and New England states had trade wars going on, besides the borderline real warfare seen over Vermont and the Wyoming valley.

New Jersey, for instance, had no first class ports and was thus being taken advantage of by both Philadelphia and New York. New York set heavy tariffs on goods from New Jersey and Connecticut (which boycotted NY in retaliation). Connecticut really pissed off Massachusetts by opening their ports to the British when Massachusetts was trying to get a boycott going.
 
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