I'm working on a TL where several new states (Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa) join the Union, and I'm considering a few issues.
1. DC Statehood - what would it take to turn the District of Columbia into an actual state?
2. City Secession - The Bay Area is decidedly further left than most of CA, so suppose that the people in the Bay Area get sick of the Governator bossing them around and decide to break away and declare the State of San Francisco (not an independent nation, just a state).
Also, what would it take to make New York City (and possibly the boroughs all the way to Queens) breaking away to become a state. Call it the State of Manhattan.
3. Giving statehood status to semi-independent entities - such as the Navajo Nation. The other reservations would be a stretch.
4. Statehood for US territories. This is kind of a FH scenario, so think forward not back. I'm thinking of making PR and the Virgin Islands one state to balance out the Hispanic/Anglo population, with Guam and Samoa taking the "smallest state" title from Rhode Island. Developing them to First World status.
And some slightly-weird issues that came to me as I wrote the previous ones down:
5. As-is states being broken down for administrative purposes - California possibly being broken down into North and South. I know it might take a change in geography, but...
6. Reunification of North/South states - the Carolinas, the Dakotas, Virginia and W. Virginia - probably ASB territory, but I just thought it was something to think about.
1. DC Statehood - what would it take to turn the District of Columbia into an actual state?
2. City Secession - The Bay Area is decidedly further left than most of CA, so suppose that the people in the Bay Area get sick of the Governator bossing them around and decide to break away and declare the State of San Francisco (not an independent nation, just a state).
Also, what would it take to make New York City (and possibly the boroughs all the way to Queens) breaking away to become a state. Call it the State of Manhattan.
3. Giving statehood status to semi-independent entities - such as the Navajo Nation. The other reservations would be a stretch.
4. Statehood for US territories. This is kind of a FH scenario, so think forward not back. I'm thinking of making PR and the Virgin Islands one state to balance out the Hispanic/Anglo population, with Guam and Samoa taking the "smallest state" title from Rhode Island. Developing them to First World status.
And some slightly-weird issues that came to me as I wrote the previous ones down:
5. As-is states being broken down for administrative purposes - California possibly being broken down into North and South. I know it might take a change in geography, but...
6. Reunification of North/South states - the Carolinas, the Dakotas, Virginia and W. Virginia - probably ASB territory, but I just thought it was something to think about.