Los Angeles, NYC and Chicago are the easiest, what others?
I could see the area between Seattle and Portland coalescing into an effectively single polity too, Tenochtitlan - Texcoco style.
I could see that. The Minneapolis-Milwaukee-Madison-Chicago megalopolis is already kind of a thing.
If only there was something connecting them at high speeds :train-shining:
It actually extends all the way to Rochester, NY
New England congeals pretty quickly I think. They’ve been a political unit longer than america has existed.
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).
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
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
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.
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.
SF becomes more of a neoliberal hellhole, the peninsual south of SF becomes a libertarian hellhole
What about LA and San Diego? Do they just get all absorbed into La Gran Tijuana?
Detroit isn’t really nearby. There’s the lake and the breadth of michigan in the way. The Milwaukee Chicago corridor is already pretty developed though.
It’d have to be armored to make it through the ruins of Gary.
Although I understand the train ride from Detroit to Chicago currently is a pretty decent way to travel between them.
