The year is 2026

[Catchawave]

Tell me about your new country...

[AX10]

1. What are you talking about?

[Catchawave]

4. It's a game, wonder if ?

It's a gov.org consumer regional map I ran across.

[Ignacio Upton]

2. Explain to me why the US is split into 10 countries?

Also, where are Alaska and Hawaii?

...Anyway, I guess that I live in #2, near the #1 border. This would suck ass if it were true, since my choices of travel include Upstate NY and Philly, but NOT Boston or Cape Cod, of California, or Chicago, or anywhere else.

[Catchawave]

6. We sold Alaska and Hawaii to China.....

...BushCo debt ya know. It's a consumer regional map :) Yeah, we need passports now.

[rockymountaindem]

3. Why would the country break along geographical lines?

Red and Blue communities are everywhere, and have nothing to do with geographically based interests.

It's not 1855 anymore.

[Catchawave]

7. Are you sure ?

Seems Bush has bombed us back to the 19th century, or somewhere between the Civil War and FDR :shrug:

[DeaconBlues]

5. West Virginia would probably go with 2 and 3, not 5

I hear about West Virginia being categorized with the MidWest, and I just don't get it. The eastern most part of the state is only a hundred miles from the Chesapeake Bay. It has as much in common with Wisconsin as Mother Theresa had with Madonna. It is a southern Appalachian state or a Midatlantic state (if you consider it from the point of view of those in the panhandles), not a MidWestern state.

[Catchawave]

9. I'm in 3, and I agree

WV would fit here just fine, we may have to go to "war" with 5, they'd want the mines :(

[DeaconBlues]

11. WV would be one helluva a place to fight a war

It would be pretty tough to find a flat piece of ground to park a tank...

[Catchawave]

12. LOL....that's why my "country"

would be very diplomatic with 3's President Edwards. What's best for the people of WV would be okie-dokie with us, and the coal ports are in Hampton Roads anyhow...and we'd contract that port to 5 anyhow. See how easy that is, no tanks required :D

[DeaconBlues]

17. It possible that political sectarianism would cause 3 to refuse WV

It looks like, between the completely blue areas of Maryland and northern Virginia, and the Falwell sections of Virgina and NC, there would be a very delicate political balance in the country of 3. Although WV in the past has voted heavily Democratic (Byrd and Rockefeller), it is turning increasingly conservative. At least when it comes to social issues.

You might have a scenario where the progressives in 3 would refuse to accept WV because it would tip the political balance. Something like the abolitionists being against the Mexican-American War, because they feared it would bring in more slave states and give the South total power in Congress.

[Catchawave]

19. Blue areas in Hampton Roads and Raleigh.....

not to mention we have the 2nd Marine Division in Jax, NC. Bring it on :D

That is if we survive the Falwell/Robertson/Nascar civil wars...sigh.

[LizMoonstar]

8. i live in one and work in another. i'd be screwed. n/t

[Catchawave]

13. Purple card?

Like the green card, only more border friendly. You'll be fine :D

[Double T]

10. I used to live in a 'blue state'; in 2026 I'll live in a purple state.....

has this got anything to do with voter fraud and thumbs????????

[Catchawave]

14. Nope....color labels will be gone....

along with the terra color threatdown charts, canned hunts and the pharmaceutical lobbyists.

[Yuugal]

15. Hi. I live in #2

I live just off the little sliver of land east of NYC called Long Island. If you want to visit me come by boat since its a long swim from the big city. Please come during low tide so my rooftop will be more easily visible. Its been a bitch getting supplies since the poles melted so feel free to byob if you want to party.

[Catchawave]

18. I love visiting your country.....

:hi: Just to let you know we're taking refugees here in #3, and can get you to higher ground if we win the West Virginia war :evilgrin:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

16. Problem with this map is that it doesn't show the earth changes

that will take place because of the rising of ocean levels, the New Madrid Earthquake (which makes the Mississippi/Ohio/Missouri rivers basically an inland sea), and Heaven knows what else.

I'm in a safe zone, and if the Grandfathers have anything to say about it, I'll be living as a hunter-gatherer, doing Ceremony and Zkr in one of the isolated parts of the Ozarks, which will have been cut off from most everything else by then.

[hatrack]

20. Yeah, way too much Florida on that map if it's 2026

Probably a bit too much coastal MS and TX, to boot.

[A Simple Game]

21. I live in Northern 2 now.

But if I am to have a new country... I pick Canada, I'm real close now, why not. New York State would go good with Canada.

3 can have Pennsylvania, when Chesapeake bay expands from global warming, 3 will need the extra land.

[Catchawave]

23. Here ya go :)

[ArbustoBuster]

24. Country Three bloody well cannot have Pennsylvania!

I was born in Pennsylvania, the heart of Country Two, I'm a patriotic citizen of Country Two, and anyone who says otherwise is a dumb redneck from Country Seven (a.k.a. Greater Bushland)! :)

[A Simple Game]

27. I would gladly welcome you to

The United States of Canada!

What do you say to that, Eh!

On edit: I think it would be appropriate if Country #1 joined us also.

[Catchawave]

22. Well guys, I just thought DU

sometimes feels like 10 different political countries. Who knows, maybe 20 years from now.....?

[yurbud]

25. Oregon & Washington have more in common with CA than ID & Mont.

[yurbud]

26. Ever read NINE NATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA? The breakdown was similar

[Dem2theMax]

28. At the rate * is going,

there isn't going to be anything left of this country in 2026.

[CJCRANE]

29. It's the UAE: United American Emirates. nt

[TexasLawyer]

30. Texlarkoma

is full of old people begging on the streets and eating lard sandwiches to stay alive.

In winter life is especially harsh, because all the aged baby boomers from up north, who can't afford to heat their homes, come down here to be warm. These northerners compete with us for the coins tossed from limousines that occasionally speed by.

A lot of the homeless men on the street are missing limbs and/or were driven crazy by the war. So being on the street is not too safe.

The war in the Middle East has been going on for 23 years now. They are saying that soon we'll be out of there-- as soon as we train enough Iraqis to finish the job. Our President, Noelle Bush, says that we're about to "turn the corner" and that our enemies are in their "final throes."

They closed down the libraries a few years back, so I can't look up in the dictionary what she means by "throes" . But it sounds like President Bush has given us good news!

[baldguy]

31. Here's the world Duhbya has created:

http://www.worlddreambank.org/D/DUBIA.HTM