What the US could’ve been

[SteveBP]

According to Map Mania

https://www.mapmania.org/map/65545/what_the_united_states_could_have_been

A very European approach.

 

[Alex Richards]

Something about Iowa being unchanged tickles me.

 

[RyanF]

Something about Iowa being unchanged tickles me.

The Kazakhstan of the Americas

 

[moth]

The total evisceration of Pennsylvania and Wests Virginia is quite fun.

 

[Stuyvesant]

The total evisceration of Pennsylvania and Wests Virginia is quite fun.

Pennsylvania delenda est

 

[Md139115]

This is the most beautiful map of my country I have ever seen.

I am sitting here in silent, joyful awe as I contemplate how the cartographer skillfully weaved in dozens of events in American history that could have produced this great mosaic that far more perfectly describes the political and cultural groupings that make up the great mosaic of the American people, and trying not to cry.

I give it a 99/100, with the only flaw being that they missed Grant’s attempt to buy what’s now the Dominican Republic.


THIS IS WHAT WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Sideways]

I Sort of want to know the story behind Forgottonia

 

[RyanF]

I Sort of want to know the story behind Forgottonia

No one remembers

 

[moth]

I Sort of want to know the story behind Forgottonia

It's an area of Illionis that forms 'the Tract', and the name is a play on how the State and Federal Government 'forgot' the region- isolated form the rest of the state by the Illinois river- and failed to meaningfully give it the needed support in transport and infrastructure (a highway connecting Chicago and Kansas City that cut straight through the Tract was defeated in the US Congress about 3 or 4 times, rail service through the area was left a pipe dream, and Carthage College left the Tract. It was used as a way of bringing attention to the issues in the region, with secession just a publicity thing and never meant to be serious.

 

[Laqueesha]

That North Carolinian exclave in Virginia made me chuckle a bit.

 

[Turquoise Blue]

Where's the north of Oregon Territory?! FIFTY-FOUR FORTY OR FIGHT!!!

 

[moth]

Where's the north of Oregon Territory?! FIFTY-FOUR FORTY OR FIGHT!!!

Given that it was just a territorial proposal and not a state proposal...

 

[Thande]

I like how Aroostook is shown separately in Maine - I presume that's just a reference to the Aroostook 'War' and disputed border with Nova Scotia - but it could easily be taken to mean an actual secession, which would be interesting considering that Aroostook is the bit of Maine shown as blank on election maps because there are too few people there to even organise into townships.

 

[lordroel]

According to Map Mania View attachment 143

https://www.mapmania.org/map/65545/what_the_united_states_could_have_been

A very European approach.

Wonder how this version of the American flag will look like, doubt so many stars can fit on the flag.

 

[Dan1988]

I like how Aroostook is shown separately in Maine - I presume that's just a reference to the Aroostook 'War' and disputed border with Nova Scotia - but it could easily be taken to mean an actual secession, which would be interesting considering that Aroostook is the bit of Maine shown as blank on election maps because there are too few people there to even organise into townships.

As it turns out, courtesy of Wiki:

Due to remoteness from the rest of Maine and a perceived lack of connection with Maine government, as well as a strong connection with neighboring Canada, politicians of Aroostook County, Maine, have proposed making Aroostook part of New Brunswick or spinning off the county as its own state, probably named Aroostook, since the 1990s. As recently as 2005 the question has been brought up before the state legislature.[16]

Though they would eventually need to have a better flag than this:

 

[lordroel]

As it turns out, courtesy of Wiki:


Though they would eventually need to have a better flag than this:

Could they at least not have used a different color for the county.

 

[Dan1988]

Could they at least not have used a different color for the county.

Apparently not.

 

[Thande]

As it turns out, courtesy of Wiki:


Though they would eventually need to have a better flag than this:

They literally have like seventy thousand people. My constituency for Parliament has more voters, never mind inhabitants.

 

[lordroel]

Apparently not.

If you do that flag here on SLP map thread i would guess members would say to give the country a different color ore make it smaller.

 

[Dan1988]

If you do that flag here on SLP map thread i would guess members would say to give the country a different color ore make it smaller.

I'd rather see the flag of the so-called "Republic of Madawaska" used instead. It's also probably shit flag design, but it's better than the alternative and has more historical value, however dubious.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Republic_of_Madawaska.gif