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Interesting. some things I agree with; others I don't.
Some of these, although distinct cultural areas are not viable countries. New Scandanavia and Cajun for example. I also do not see why Mexico needs random border counties if they are not being used to make entirely new nations out of northern Mexico as well. Leave 'em in Texas and Desert Southwest which will both have significant Spanish-speaking populations anyways. In some cases doing everything by county caused problems; I really don't think the Inland empire and LA should be seperated.
But it's not bad really. I have thought about the same thing so I can't talk **** till I make one I guess.
I don't understand your penchant for snipping up the present states. As TheWereRabbit said, you're mixing cultural and geographical.
You are putting entirely too much of Colorado in the "Great Plains" category, especially in the northern part of the state. One county is snipped off at the bottom as "Desert Southwest", and another as "Navajo Country". It's all Colorado! Most of Utah is "Deseret", which, to the uninitiated, is a term for LDS. But geographically, Utah is the Rocky Mountains.
No part of Illinois, Ohio, or Indiana is the south; I have argued that point many a time on this forum. For example, when all is said and done, the people of southern Illinois live in ILLINOIS. They pay taxes to Ill, they get in-state tuition at Illinois public colleges, etc. In the Civil War, they fought for the north. The Ohio River is a perfectly fine dividing line as it is now. The Amish are really not a huge influence in Pennsylvania; they are not a huge percentage of the population of several counties. There are also big Amish communities in western PA, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
Northern Wisconsin and Michigan are not particularly "New Scandinavia". Wisconsin has a historically German heritage, and northern Michigan is "General American".
There's no relevance for the general u.s. room regarding a map from one person's perspective that would help visitors/tourists seeking city data info on the site (or arguing about it, which this type of thread eventually leads to on some level). But I will leave the thread intact as-is (closed) as opposed to deleting it, so folks can still view the map for personal interest sake.
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