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US States names and shapes: What would you change?

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Your opinion on US States?

1: They're just fine
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2: Some changes could be made
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3: They're horrific
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4: No opinion/why is this even a matter of discussion?
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Total votes : 176

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Postby LiberNovusAmericae » Wed May 13, 2020 4:47 pm

Purpelia wrote:Split them up, deconstruct the union and make the states UN protectorates to be released when the drug, crime and gun problems are solved and when you accept civilized socialism. Also when the SJW and similar movements die out. And your cooky religions.

Good luck overpowering our military.

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Postby Dominioan » Wed May 13, 2020 5:16 pm

Auze wrote:Idea: rename South Carolina to the “Imperium of True Carolina”, and annex all of the Northern US into the Delawarean Empire. Annex Canada, along with preferably the rest of the Anglosphere.
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Society has passed the need for a unitary state. End all of them larger than Monaco.

Love the idea. How about:
North/South Carolina=Republic of the Carolinian Union
Dakotas=The Socialist State of Dakota
Carolina, Nevada=The United Republic of West America
Oklahoma, Texas=The Democratic Free State of Texhoma
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Postby Agarntrop » Wed May 13, 2020 5:40 pm

Dominioan wrote:
Auze wrote:Idea: rename South Carolina to the “Imperium of True Carolina”, and annex all of the Northern US into the Delawarean Empire. Annex Canada, along with preferably the rest of the Anglosphere.

Society has passed the need for a unitary state. End all of them larger than Monaco.

Love the idea. How about:
North/South Carolina=Republic of the Carolinian Union
Dakotas=The Socialist State of Dakota
Carolina, Nevada=The United Republic of West America
Oklahoma, Texas=The Democratic Free State of Texhoma

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Postby Arcturus Novus » Wed May 13, 2020 6:20 pm

Funny enough, I actually have... this? I found it in my MS Paint files and have no memory of making it, but I enjoy the general concept of making 50 states into 13.
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Postby New haven america » Wed May 13, 2020 6:21 pm

Arcturus Novus wrote:Funny enough, I actually have... this? I found it in my MS Paint files and have no memory of making it, but I enjoy the general concept of making 50 states into 13.

Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico would be calling for succession before letting that map happen IRL.
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Postby New haven america » Wed May 13, 2020 6:22 pm

I'd leave them the same just to annoy people.
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Postby Arcturus Novus » Wed May 13, 2020 6:22 pm

New haven america wrote:
Arcturus Novus wrote:Funny enough, I actually have... this? I found it in my MS Paint files and have no memory of making it, but I enjoy the general concept of making 50 states into 13.

Oregon, Washington, Colorado, and New Mexico would be calling for succession before letting that map happen IRL.

I never said it was a realistic map. Also I think Hawaii also falls under Pacific jurisdiction here?
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Postby Dytarma » Wed May 13, 2020 6:24 pm

Honestly we should make every county its own state.
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Postby Viechtyr » Wed May 13, 2020 6:26 pm

My friend on Twitter made a thread about this exact thing, and this is what he came up with Image
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Postby Mushet » Wed May 13, 2020 6:27 pm

I probably would have did it based mostly on watersheds, real difficult to change things around now though. State bordersas it is are so arbitrary and weird.

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Postby Atheris » Wed May 13, 2020 6:29 pm

Viechtyr wrote:My friend on Twitter made a thread about this exact thing, and this is what he came up with (Image)

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Postby Punainen Suomi » Wed May 13, 2020 11:47 pm

I would dissolve the Union and release each state as an independent country, although some of the larger ones could do with being broken up. Actually, the duplicates (North/South Dakota, etc) should be merged as well. It would make North America a much more interesting continent.
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Postby Nobel Hobos 2 » Thu May 14, 2020 12:28 am

In the spirit of the 1947 UN partition plan for Palestine, I thought it might ease tensions in the US to make it two separate countries ...

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-Astoria
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Postby -Astoria » Thu May 14, 2020 12:44 am

Auze wrote:Idea: rename South Carolina to the “Imperium of True Carolina”, and annex all of the Northern US into the Delawarean Empire. Annex Canada, along with preferably the rest of the Anglosphere.

How about no.

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Postby Auze » Thu May 14, 2020 3:28 am


Good thing we exterminated all of ours where I live.
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Auze wrote:Idea: rename South Carolina to the “Imperium of True Carolina”, and annex all of the Northern US into the Delawarean Empire. Annex Canada, along with preferably the rest of the Anglosphere.

How about no.

How about yes. Why not have the glorious Delawarean Empire?
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Postby -Astoria » Thu May 14, 2020 3:30 am

Auze wrote:

Good thing we exterminated all of ours where I live.
-Astoria wrote:How about no.

How about yes. Why not have the glorious Delawarean Empire?

Annex Canada, along with preferably the rest of the Anglosphere.

rename South Carolina to the “Imperium of True Carolina”

How about no.

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Postby Mtwara » Thu May 14, 2020 3:41 am

I like the way Louisiana is in the shape of an 'L'. This makes it very easy to identify.

I would support a rearrangement so that each state resembles the first letter of its name so that it is easily identifiable on a map.
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Postby Pilipinas and Malaya » Thu May 14, 2020 5:44 am

Mushet wrote:I probably would have did it based mostly on watersheds, real difficult to change things around now though. State bordersas it is are so arbitrary and weird.



Yes. This. Geographical determinators are much better to use than arbitrary ones.
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Postby Rojava Free State » Thu May 14, 2020 5:45 am

Purpelia wrote:Split them up, deconstruct the union and make the states UN protectorates to be released when the drug, crime and gun problems are solved and when you accept civilized socialism. Also when the SJW and similar movements die out. And your cooky religions.


No. I would the first fighting the occupation.
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Postby Stellar Colonies » Thu May 14, 2020 5:53 pm


You want to give the land making up the US, which is populated by about 327 million people, exclusively to just 4.5 million of that total amount?

What happens to the other 323.5 million?
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Postby New haven america » Thu May 14, 2020 5:58 pm

Stellar Colonies wrote:

You want to give the land making up the US, which is populated by about 327 million people, exclusively to just 4.5 million of that total amount?

What happens to the other 323.5 million?

IIRC, El Amin had a similar idea when he was still allowed on, and his conclusion was that those of non-native descent still get to live here but they get no say or vote about what happens in any form of government or institution.
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Postby Eckie-Cola » Thu May 14, 2020 5:59 pm

I wouldn’t change a thing. I like the states how they are, arbitrary and curved.
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Postby Stellar Colonies » Thu May 14, 2020 6:40 pm

New haven america wrote:
Stellar Colonies wrote:You want to give the land making up the US, which is populated by about 327 million people, exclusively to just 4.5 million of that total amount?

What happens to the other 323.5 million?

IIRC, El Amin had a similar idea when he was still allowed on, and his conclusion was that those of non-native descent still get to live here but they get no say or vote about what happens in any form of government or institution.

That sounds like a wonderful idea which would definitely not explode in their face.

I know this comparison may sound ridiculous, but it reminds me of a more extreme and flipped South Africa.
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Theodorable wrote:Jihad will win.
Distruzio wrote:All marriage outside the Church is gay marriage.
Khardsland wrote:Terrorism in its original definition is a good thing.
I try to be objective, but I do have some biases.

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The Confederacy & the WA.

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Postby Kedri » Thu May 14, 2020 6:42 pm

I'd merge Ohio and Michigan into one state and watch them fight each other to the death.
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