What If Every State Had Natural Borders? Pt.2 | American Politics

The state borders of the United States are too arbitrary, so Monsieur Z redrew every state's borders to account for history, politics, culture, religion, geography, and more. What if every state in America had natural border? Why should the US states have new borders anyway? Monsieur Z has spoken before about the politics behind why American state borders should be redrawn, and now maps out this redrawn in what the community has called the balkanization proclamation.

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[TheJam]

If this happened with a system that allows more than two parties this would be very interesting to see.

[____________]

My only real issue with this is the lack of the original states being superimposed on the map occasionally.

[CMitchell]

The map is great. I’d love an interactive version of it somewhere online, so I could share it with family without having to open and pause the videos constantly.

[anacinus_lemius]

So why don't you try to redraw borders in Canada into natural borders? it will be interesting if all over North America uses same way to divide their administrative territories...

[MonsieurDean]

Who would like a full-sized image of the map? And if so, where should we share it?






And, if you have any questions or additions to make to your state, let us know in the comments!

[rostdreadnorramus]

Not sure how I feel about the Alamo suddenly being in the state of Santa Anna...

[lonneansekishoku]

I was looking forward to the second part of this. As someone who likes to create lore, I find this very interesting.

[dominicadrean]

Here's a fun scenario what if the great Greek plan (Catherine the Great of Russia's plan to restore the Byzantine Empire )succeeded

[daniellarsen-es]

I know this is a YouTube channel, but a full-blown printed Atlas volume with geographic and demographic breakdowns of each state and region of this alternate US would be very much appreciated by us tactile bookworms. It could give readers a better look at the real America than what even official maps and demography studies show.

[History-and-stuff]

As a member of this project, I enjoyed this so much even if I barley contributed. All the people I met during this were so cool.

[jbdloucks]

It would have been more helpful if you could have mentioned notable major cities (or at least their presumed state capital) within each state as a point of reference.

[thecodeofreality]

Seriously though, why did you split Washington up the Columbia? The cascade mountain range is literally right there and serves as a better border divide than the Columbia in every conceivable way. A map drawn as you did would inevitably lead to a bloody boarder conflict between the states of Washington and Idaho over the eastern Sub-Cascades, much like Alsace-Lorraine was between Germany and France

[balothYT]

A Balkanization Proclamation of Canada would be very interesting to see

[Mesra]

Puerto Rico: has more than 3 million people. Still a territory

Lincoln: only about half a million citizens. Is treated as state

[crabait]

Wild how you went through the whole southwest without touching on water rights once. It’s the defining issue out here. Sacramento would cut LA, San Diego, and new California off from the delta and cause chaos day one

[SpicyAfterbirth]

Very nice. As a resident of Ventura county my only criticism would be consolidation of the entire Central Coast into the new California state due to our shared history and culture. The Central Coast is largely rural and suburban but would have a mixed economy, strongly agricultural and recreational, predominantly Catholic with a significant protestant plurality. We have a shared history in our blend of colonial Spanish and frontier American culture (Santa Maria BBQ, the old Missions running along the 101, and our more western attitudes compared to our Urban neighbors.) we have very little in common with Los Angeles or San Francisco culturally or politically with conservative values in some of the more rural areas with a significant plurality in even the suburban areas. Ethnically speaking the area is almost split down the line 50/50 Hispanic and Anglo with a significant Scots Irish minority. Every county is named after a Saint or in honor of the Spanish Missionaries who first explored and charted the area and we also all share the same area code, 805, of which the beer is named after

[greatnorthernadventures]

Token Alaskan here. Kenai is pronounced “Keen-eye”. Juneau territory encompasses several gold mines, logging in the Tongass forest, and fishing. Anchorage territory holds fishing (including the Copper River, Cook Inlet, and Bristol Bay fisheries which are the largest salmon fisheries in state), as well as the Cook Inlet and Swanson River oil and gas fields, and the Beluga coal fields. Not to mention Ted Stevens airport in the city of Anchorage is a major cargo hub (3rd busiest in the US), and has several potential mines in its area. Fairbanks has minor logging in the Tanana valley, mining at Ft Knox, Pogo, and Manh Choh mines, and coal at the Usibelli mine. It also has access to the Bering Sea fisheries. Seward of course has the oil and gas fields of the North Slope, the Red Dog mine and upcoming Graphite mine, as well as the mineral deposits of the Ambler mining district, along with access to Bering Sea fisheries.

[montanarepublic]

I would say the conservative parts of Washington state extend past the river. They stop more at the cascade mountains. So I’d adjust the borders accordingly.

[AmericanImperium]

Y'know. This map looks like it holds many stories. Like some kind of alternate history epic. Keep up the great work. 👍

P.S. It's kind of sad that Cascadia isn't it's own region of states.

[WalterWhiteOfBeans]

No shot you actually named a state coming from Texas, Santa Anna