How would you redraw the US states?

[Valrifell]

One Dakota, not two. Five or six Californias, each with two Senators. Ditto New York and the other NE states. Merge Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Utah. Or, easier solution, abolish the Electoral College and elect the President by popular vote...

Five or six Dakotas, two New Englands, and one Carolina.

[El-Amin Caliphate]

The land in white (not on the Mexican side) and land where a tribe doesn't exist anymore can be for America
But a United Carolina sounds cool too. This too:
https://i.redd.it/04dsr9vglwyz.jpg
There's another one I saw a long time ago but I don't want to go through my lost history. It's like the US flag but it replaced the 50 stars on a blue background with a star and crescent on a green background. Can anyone find that for me? Jazakallah Khairan to anyone who's does.

[Christian Confederation]

I would combine the Carolinas, Virginias , and Dakotas make things less complex. Texas would include Oklahoma, Georgia would anex Alabama and Mississippi, Florida will loose most of it's panhandle that way Alabama or technically Georgia will have a straight boarder. Also any other strange boarder like city's and towns cut off by a river but connected by a bridge, that part of Virginia connected to Maryland type of things. And new Mexico will be between Texas and California.

[Xmara]

We could always just return the US to the UK and change the names of the states to sound more British.

[The Chuck]

We could always just return the US to the UK and change the names of the states to sound more British.

*points to the second amendment and then towards every gun owner in America*

"Over their dead bodies..."

[Kombinita Socialisma Demokratio]

I would base it all off of population densities (mostly, also taking into account vast physical and cultural separations) so as to place borders along the least-densely populated areas, thus leaving most metropolitan centers unified.

[Mushet]

Why so many want to combine the Virginias? They're pretty culturally different.

[Valrifell]

Why so many want to combine the Virginias? They're pretty culturally different.

People don't seem to get that the bulk of the divisions in US states were culturally enforced. The animosity between Virginians from either side of the Appalachians has been there since "Westsylvania" was proposed way back in the early days of the Union. I'd also argue that the Carolinas are very different.

Jury's still out on the Dakotas, though. Do enough people even live there for them to have a "culture"?

[Xmara]

We could always just return the US to the UK and change the names of the states to sound more British.

*points to the second amendment and then towards every gun owner in America*

"Over their dead bodies..."

Okay, okay. America can annex the UK instead...

[The Chuck]

*points to the second amendment and then towards every gun owner in America*

"Over their dead bodies..."

Okay, okay. America can annex the UK instead...

Going to need to wait...

Puerto Rico is 51st, Guam is 52nd, Canada is 53rd... I think we could squeeze you in for 54th state? (Every person from Puerto Rico, Guam, and Canada is going to hate me...).

[Xmara]

Okay, okay. America can annex the UK instead...

Going to need to wait...

Puerto Rico is 51st, Guam is 52nd, Canada is 53rd... I think we could squeeze you in for 54th state? (Every person from Puerto Rico, Guam, and Canada is going to hate me...).

Nah, Canadians are too nice. They won't mind if we make them 54th instead so we can annex the UK faster (and tax the crap out of their tea as well).

[Totally not East Lodge]

New york annexes Texas and Flordia.
California becomes Washington.
Washington becomes Alabama
You jumble up some states and deal with the new shape

[Kombinita Socialisma Demokratio]

Why so many want to combine the Virginias? They're pretty culturally different.

People don't seem to get that the bulk of the divisions in US states were culturally enforced. The animosity between Virginians from either side of the Appalachians has been there since "Westsylvania" was proposed way back in the early days of the Union. I'd also argue that the Carolinas are very different.

Jury's still out on the Dakotas, though. Do enough people even live there for them to have a "culture"?

I live in North Carolina. The difference between east, center and west of the state is more than the difference between north and south carolina (excluding the dialect).
It is much easier to see who is from the west than who is from north/south.

If you are dividing by culture, make Appalachia two or three states (divided based on how much southern culture), and separate parts of the coast.

Also, if not using culture or population densities:

Source: XKCD 1902

Source: XKCD 1653

[Thermodolia]

I would combine the Carolinas, Virginias , and Dakotas make things less complex. Texas would include Oklahoma, Georgia would anex Alabama and Mississippi, Florida will loose most of it's panhandle that way Alabama or technically Georgia will have a straight boarder. Also any other strange boarder like city's and towns cut off by a river but connected by a bridge, that part of Virginia connected to Maryland type of things. And new Mexico will be between Texas and California.

We Georgians do not want Alabama. Not one bit.

[Forsher]

So in other words, basically hand over the entire Senate to the GOP?

In a thread about a totally unrealistic scenario, I don't really see the value in calling out conservatives on congressional supermajority wet dreams.

The last state border change was in 2017...

What's unrealistic about this thread is how people have attempted to run with it rather than the actual idea. Although, to be fair, the scope of the exercise... and the implicit timeline... suggested by the OP does rather suggest an unrealistic exercise.

I suppose you could twist the OP to argue that it's really about using the current political borders to guide a construction of a cultural border map, and while taking that to mean "political culture" isn't quite the point of the exercise it does get very close to it.

Why so many want to combine the Virginias? They're pretty culturally different.

I agree... in the simple sense (I did not notice there were two Virginias and/or hadn't bothered remembering this*) that I looked at this thread and it seemed to me that everyone was making a whole bunch of assumptions about state cultures that may or may not be true, hence I suggested co-opting your Census to help answer the question for real. Plus make the usual point about bringing universal suffrage to the US but mostly it was the data answer.

*Compare North and South Dakota. I watch Fargo. They're relevant states to non-Americans.

[Rio Cana]

Nations in bold are no longer part of the Union.

Make Arkansas "The Arkansa Hegemony" and make it annex Texas and Louisiana.

Nevada annexes California.

Florida and Puerto Rico unite, making Puerto Rico de Florida

South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and North Carolina unite to the create the Appalachian Empire

North Dakota is larger into South Dakota

Washington D.C will be part of Virginia

North Carolina's Barrier Islands still remain, as the Barrier Confederation
, a liberal, democratic confederation.

Puerto Rico de Florida is the most populous state, slightly beating Nevada. Puerto Rico de Florida has 41 mil, Nevada has 40 mil, while Arkansa Hegemony has 38 mil.

Oklahoma and Kansas will unite as the Tornado Federation


New Orleans will secede and become The Empire of New Orleans, a direct, democratic empire.

Puerto Rico de Florida.
In time with the rising sea level it would be just Puerto Rico and no Florida.

By the way, I do not think the so called father of the motherland if he was around today would go for it - http://latinopia.com/latino-history/lat ... -betances/

[Wallenburg]

In a thread about a totally unrealistic scenario, I don't really see the value in calling out conservatives on congressional supermajority wet dreams.

The last state border change was in 2017...

19 houses =/= Literally having entire states swallow entire other states, or breaking states into several other states.

[El-Amin Caliphate]

People don't seem to get that the bulk of the divisions in US states were culturally enforced. The animosity between Virginians from either side of the Appalachians has been there since "Westsylvania" was proposed way back in the early days of the Union. I'd also argue that the Carolinas are very different.

Jury's still out on the Dakotas, though. Do enough people even live there for them to have a "culture"?

I live in North Carolina.

Eyyyy, same here! Born and raised

The difference between east, center and west of the state is more than the difference between north and south carolina (excluding the dialect).
It is much easier to see who is from the west than who is from north/south.

Really? I haven't noticed that much of a difference (probs cuz I haven't been to the west and east much but idk).

[Kowani]

The land in white (not on the Mexican side) and land where a tribe doesn't exist anymore can be for America(Image)
But a United Carolina sounds cool too. This too:
https://i.redd.it/04dsr9vglwyz.jpg
There's another one I saw a long time ago but I don't want to go through my lost history. It's like the US flag but it replaced the 50 stars on a blue background with a star and crescent on a green background. Can anyone find that for me? Jazakallah Khairan to anyone who's does.

How about no?

[Big Jim P]

Texas. Everything else is just our outlying territories.

[US-SSR]

Texas. Everything else is just our outlying territories.

Texas = Baja Oklahoma

[Dresderstan]

We could always just return the US to the UK and change the names of the states to sound more British.

Yes but there needs to be some concessions the Brits must have if they want to bring us back under their empire.

[Western Vale Confederacy]

We could always just return the US to the UK and change the names of the states to sound more British.

Yes but there needs to be some concessions the Brits must have if they want to bring us back under their empire.

Like not being a literal meme of a country with policemen that raid your home in search of steak knives and garden tools?

[Dresderstan]

Yes but there needs to be some concessions the Brits must have if they want to bring us back under their empire.

Like not being a literal meme of a country with policemen that raid your home in search of steak knives and garden tools?

Yes, and we get to keep some of the same constitutional rights we have and vice versa.

[Othelos]

We could always just return the US to the UK and change the names of the states to sound more British.

Yes but there needs to be some concessions the Brits must have if they want to bring us back under their empire.

The Brits can't seem to manage their own countries and their political/jurisdictional boundaries; what makes you think they have any leverage to demand concessions from the US?