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Ridiculous Statehoodby ~frenchfriar

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This is an attempt to show what would happen if all of the proposed states had indeed achieved statehood. Several states have been added to the map, as best as I could find descriptions of their boundaries or following what maps I found.

I used images of maps no longer in copyright as base images, and expanded upon them and changed them to get this result.

This was not my final result, alas, it is the only image that I have currently on my new computer.

Once I retrieve the rest off my old hard drive, I will post more.

~pete8680 Apr 8, 2013

Cape Breton Island was once its own Province i think. So they should b seperate from Nova Scotia

~frenchfriar Apr 19, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

absolutely! I could not agree more! i really need to do an updated version , with many more states added I left out of this one! hanks for the comment!

!ArrayOfStars Mar 29, 2013

Also imagine if countries we treat like states actually became states, such as Israel or Russia.

~frenchfriar Apr 19, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

I can see making a case for Israel... even for adding the UK as individual states.. (it was actually proposed as a solution to the war debt after ww2, the British were not amused).
I can't imagine adding all of Russia to the Union even in the most ardent Ameriwank scenario, I'm even thinking of letting them keep Russian America, and turning it into three states which later joined, Alyeska, Yukon, and Severnye Sklone (the Northern Slope), with the last being another Native Nation state, like Nunuvut. Possibly even a refuge state for Czarist Russia.
Basically, the concept is a Balkanised North America, where a bunch of smaller nations later reunify.

Otherwise, yeah, I think I'm going to push it for all I can, and see what I can get into a sequel.

~LandoftheAncestors Jan 25, 2013

I don't see the Cherokee petition for statehood before the period of Jackson's removal.

~LandoftheAncestors Jan 25, 2013

Nevermind. I see it. I think this is the first time I have ever seen an approximation of the Cherokee state on a map. What might have been.

~frenchfriar Jan 27, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

This map has both: a remnant of the original Cherokee holdings, in brown, north of Alabama and Georgia, south of Franklin; and the state of Sequoyah, which was proposed 2 years ahead of the full state of Oklahoma, by forming what was then "Indian Territory" into a state by itself, which remained the basis for Oklahoma statehood for the full state later.
My thoughts on this map were to allow the Cherokee nation to remain, so no Trail of Tears, but have them also be instrumental in helping the fledgling state of Sequoyah to come into being. I'm having my cake and eating it.
(and by the way, my version of the Cherokee nation on the map was taken from borders on the Indian Cessions maps, something I highly recommend googling.)

~Feh-ji-no Oct 27, 2012

Wait, did I get this right, 88?

~Raubritter Jul 21, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

But your country is so big, all this single states would have the size of the netherlands or Bavaria and would work fine. Though, naturally government would be chaos like in the Holy Roman Empire...

~frenchfriar Oct 5, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

excellent point you make there. I think managing the size of government would become very important, and certainly communication would be key

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