Los Angeles, NYC and Chicago are the easiest, what others?

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New England congeals pretty quickly I think. They’ve been a political unit longer than america has existed.

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the rural being in northern Maine, NH, and Vermont. The rural parts would love to be independent. They don’t really have an economy though, so it’s hard to say.

yeah there’s no way those areas could exist on their own. like you said, they have absolutely no economy. they either become part of canada or get absorbed into one of the nearby big states.

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The rural parts would love to be independent. They don’t really have an economy though, so it’s hard to say.

Sounds like the State of Jefferson types in rural California.

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That’s fair. I have a patchy knowledge of NE, and most of it is pre 1900s.

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I’m not super sure how much it would - I think VT/MA/RI/CT would align pretty quickly but NH/ME might just fuck off and do their own thing while still maintaining ties with the wider NE area. (Or they’d basically get forced into it because they’d need access to the larger NE economy).

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Quebec would annex Vermont

NH/ME would become weird independent libertarian states

MA would be its own thing

CT and RI would get absorbed into NY

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CT and RI would get absorbed into NY

More likely to get attached to Massachusetts imo, or at least RI — they’re already on the MBTA commuter rail

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Think they’d be forced in. Don’t know if Canada wants to annex the territory necessarily, but almost no country would make a trade agreement with just one former state. So they’d be to be an economic unit, likely political as well.

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