Yankeedom: Founded by Puritans, residents in Northeastern states and the industrial Midwest tend to be more comfortable with government regulation. They value education and the common good more than other regions.
New Netherland: The Netherlands was the most sophisticated society in the Western world when New York was founded, Woodard writes, so it’s no wonder that the region has been a hub of global commerce. It’s also the region most accepting of historically persecuted populations.
The Midlands: Stretching from Quaker territory west through Iowa and into more populated areas of the Midwest, the Midlands are “pluralistic and organized around the middle class.†Government intrusion is unwelcome, and ethnic and ideological purity isn’t a priority.
Tidewater: The coastal regions in the English colonies of Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland and Delaware tend to respect authority and value tradition. Once the most powerful American nation, it began to decline during Westward expansion.
Greater Appalachia: Extending from West Virginia through the Great Smoky Mountains and into Northwest Texas, the descendants of Irish, English and Scottish settlers value individual liberty. Residents are “intensely suspicious of lowland aristocrats and Yankee social engineers.â€
Deep South: Dixie still traces its roots to the caste system established by masters who tried to duplicate West Indies-style slave society, Woodard writes. The Old South values states’ rights and local control and fights the expansion of federal powers.
El Norte: Southwest Texas and the border region is the oldest, and most linguistically different, nation in the Americas. Hard work and self-sufficiency are prized values.
The Left Coast: A hybrid, Woodard says, of Appalachian independence and Yankee utopianism loosely defined by the Pacific Ocean on one side and coastal mountain ranges like the Cascades and the Sierra Nevadas on the other. The independence and innovation required of early explorers continues to manifest in places like Silicon Valley and the tech companies around Seattle.
The Far West: The Great Plains and the Mountain West were built by industry, made necessary by harsh, sometimes inhospitable climates. Far Westerners are intensely libertarian and deeply distrustful of big institutions, whether they are railroads and monopolies or the federal government.
New France: Former French colonies in and around New Orleans and Quebec tend toward consensus and egalitarian, “among the most liberal on the continent, with unusually tolerant attitudes toward gays and people of all races and a ready acceptance of government involvement in the economy,†Woodard writes.
First Nation: The few First Nation peoples left — Native Americans who never gave up their land to white settlers — are mainly in the harshly Arctic north of Canada and Alaska. They have sovereignty over their lands, but their population is only around 300,000.
Source: Tufts University
Further evidence it’s time to consider a dissolution of the United States. This continent-sized country has too disparate a-people to continue arguing and bickering together. Sometimes in order to progress, humanity must devolve. Let self-determination and friendly competition decide regional directions. Our Federalist system was designed with 13 colonies in mind, not 50 states and other territories spanning half the globe. I may write a book on this subject.
Dissolution of the United States? You must be kidding. You’re a whack job!
Could you imagine living on a continent with several countries fighting over boundaries, water rights, etc, etc? We have been lucky enough to have only one major internal war since 1776. Had we not been one nation, we would have had several more. Maybe you’re heard of this little place called Europe….
+1, Brad has some nice ideas on the local level, but I’d venture a guess he’s against the EU which is a type of agreement we would need for his crazy idea to work.
Agreed. Brad seems to be in over his head when he gets out of Vanderburgh County.
Forget get the EU, we need a complete transnationist government. Like Thomas Friedman has said so accurately, the world is flat. 7 forces (iirc) flattened the earth and turned it into a globalized world economy. A person should be free to go anywhere without being red taped and soveign ruled to death.
I never thought I would agree with KnowNothing. Shame on you, Brad, for making this happen.
It’s been written and has a TV series, Jericho.
Brad Linzy: You are over the edge. Please get help.
No it’s the other way around- Dissolution of the states into 11 Megaregions. Here in the Midwest, Chicago is the emerging capital of the Great Lakes Megaregion which is why it makes no sense not to establish proper infrastructure to it.
This idea/concept is not new.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Nations_of_North_America
http://www.america2050.org/megaregions.html
I realize this isn’t a new idea; I don’t think the US should be dissolved along these regional lines, necessarily. Better to simply dissolve the US federal government and allow the various states to self-govern as independent countries using existing frameworks of law, or enter into alliances with neighboring states or regional blocs. Trade and travel agreements are easy to work out, as are mutual defensive arrangements.
One thing is certain…the US is past it’s sell-by date. We are in a time where most Americans can agree the federal government is not serving the people. Washington has become a self-serving snake pit, an orgiastic writhing of special interest lobbyists, crooked, smarmy, demagoging politicians, complicit media personalities, and a legion of pointless bureaucrats.
While it is true a move toward dissolution would not kill the hydra-headed beast completely, it would make it easier to wrangle and monitor.
Really?!?! I would be really mad if I paid 80K per tuition to send my kids to Tufts University. Shouldn’t they be teaching the kids rather than coming up with with this garbage that only belongs in the Weekly World News, Coast to Coast AM Radio or a
J.J. Abrams show?
Thanks for an intelligent post. The other posters seem to dwell in a bizarre alternative universe.
My Uncle Joe Biden suggested dividing Iraq into 3 sections. Kurds – Shiites – Sunnis.
Naturally the Neo-Cons thought he was an idiot.
Naturally the Neo-Cons created the mess.
Naturally, someone more intelligent than a blood sucking Neo-Con will have to end up solving it.
Closer to home, we must allow Texas to secede if for no other reason than to get rid of the $24 billion dollar economy draining Cruz.
touch’e
Dang,Lets see here,looking forward,you’d think each little sub-divided,regional,continental,”countrielette” might be setting out trying to land a medical school location or something.
As observed, with the all the defined differences,values,ethnic backgrounds regional infrastructures,social backgrounds and such.
One wonders which confused little countrielette will have evolved the new advanced planet smart coastline developments,and working infrastructures after 2050ad.
Geez the future of America 2050 on? Seeing as the sea level has raised 4.3 feet,while on its way to 35,or forty feet above the present levels by 2150ad,as well
Man, where ever that is going to be,with all that extra water vapor being unlocked and raging in those little mini contrielettes atmospheres,they best have some working storm sewers,and enough clean water to go around the fiefdoms bickering border regions, or there might be some more numerous regional, ethnically isolated, and socially preconceived and economically patterned countrielettes.
Back to the future there professor,better look into your present geographical profiles demise before we all set forth trying to define whose countrielette is whos there.
I am curios, who gets the military?
Military,ummm, American, social, economic,ethnic countrielettes? Well,who ever does get the military in this stupid future projection. Go heavy funding “all in” on the Navy branch….
Considering the isolationist policies than Ron Paul loves, I’m thinking the Libertarians would do away with the military. There would be lots of militias, though.
Isolationism is a foreign policy marked by staying out of the military affairs of other nations coupled with protectionist trade policies. Ron Paul is NOT isolationist. He’s non-interventionist. He promotes free-trade, not protectionism.
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