Re: Background Material: A call for Help from US Easterners

Well, not knowing how you did your map:

Maine might break from USA and link up with East Canada, after all half
the 
country doesn't know we are still part ofthe union anyways.  And
dependng on 
the setting, we might end up with more in common with this block then
sothern US.

A possible MegaCity State (Using New York City,Boston, and Down to DC)
as 1 
Solid Citystate.

2nd Megacity branching out of Altanta.

Northern Mass, New Hampshire, Vermont and Northern New York as 1 "State"

You say you don't want to see the reborn confederate states.  I don't
think 
you could see it with out the problems you for see, but  Any group of
Southern 
states who were to link up, might use the name Confederate States, 1 to
track 
linkage back to then.  But would the setting be the same sort of states,
no.

And don't foregt the Rust belts states a new "Country"

a couple of sources is you can find them I might suggest to look at are

Free America (sourcebook for FreeLancers, which was a sourcebook for Top

Secret/SI by TSR 10+ years ago.  (I know I have it somehwere in teh
basement as I 
still run a TS/SI heauierly modified game)
And I beleive they did a look at the whole USA for teh Cyberpunk 2020
setting 
as well.

If you want more info, drop me a line.

DOC Agren

     (Lurker on the Digest)

In a message dated 12/12/03 5:06:07 PM, 
owner-gzg-digest@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU writes:

<< From: Brian B <greywanderer987@yahoo.com>
Subject: Background Material:  A call for Help from US Easterners

I've been working on a redrawn map of North America
for my own personal fictional background, one in which
the political lines are redrawn after the
balkanization of the US and Canada and a series of
realignments among various states and provinces into
new countries.

I've finished the US west of the Mississippi as well
as Canada and the Carribean, but I'm still working on
the east coast and midwest.  I was hoping for input
from some people back east on how to realign the
states there.

I'm not real interested in the concept of a revived
Confederacy, popular as it is in SF, given the
historical/political baggage it carries and the
unlikelihood that the African-American population of
the modern south would go for it.  If it is included,
there has to be some sort of unrest/division within
the south between pro- and anti-confederacy forces.

Input?
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