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[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes the US should defederate from itself. In fact I think a perfect map of the US is broken down not by region or state, but by county. Break the US down into small bite sized chunks so that it has no choice but to fight amongst itself until the end of time

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Turning the US into a much larger version of the HRE with infinitely more guns is such an interesting concept.

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

geordi-no Balkanization

geordi-yes Californication

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, long live the People's Commonwealth of Pennsylvania! We will take back the Philadelphian suburbs of New Jersey from the yoke of imperialist New York City!

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The city-state New York City tried to intervene, but they realized they would have to cross into Jersey and the Neo-NYPD armed forces were thrown back.

[–] Vncredleader@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

The Pittsburgh Pirate and the Perogi mascots have launched a surprise attack across the Ohio border, hundreds dead

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[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

My proposal:

A map of language families of the Contiguous United States prior to European contact

sicko-yes

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

Since we're already making a beeline for it, just follow the Fallout timeline

13 super-states, to represent the original 13 colonies

Also, annex Canada

[–] neomis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No we should keep our federal government. That said state lines are arbitrary and should be redrawn to balance the population. Honestly we could get away with 7 or less districts rather than 50 states.

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Problem with that plan is it lacks any D2A