An Alternate North America that never became the US.

[Skidmore]

This is interesting.

http://io9.com/maps-of-an-alternate-north-america-that-never-became-th-1603696416?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Maps of an Alternate North America That Never Became the United States




Imagine a world very different from our own, where North America developed not into the stable geopolitical regions we know today, but Balkanized into smaller empires, territories and republics.

Visualizing such a world is a favorite past time of graphic designer Jordan Penny, who has spent the better part of a decade combining his love of history, art, and cartography to explore alternate history scenarios with beautifully designed maps like the one up top. This particular geopolitical scenario forms the basis of his latest series, "American Quilt." [Update: Penny has joined us in the comments (username: InFluEnza). Feel free to ask questions!]

"In our history the formation of the United States in her early periods were precarious," Perry tells io9. "Not only were the British poised to retake the South and defeat the insurgents militarily, pre-Constitution the Articles of Confederation created a weak government that couldn't even easily collect taxes. In this world I've created, the AoC are never replaced, and the Union slowly devolves into what you see here."

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[betterdemsonly]

1. Is there a link to an article? n/t

[Skidmore]

2. Whoops! Corrected.

Sorry about that. I forgot.

[betterdemsonly]

4. Don't know why Dhezaret

would be in Iowa and Southern Minnesota rather than Utah. We don't have hardly any mormons here, though the Mormon trail goes through the Southern part.

[Skidmore]

5. Because the Mormons tracked through the

Council Bluffs area on the western border is my guess. They settled for a while in that area just north of Missouri and east of Omaha for a while. There were also early and brief settlements southern Iowa. Here is a good summary of their time in Iowa.

http://iagenweb.org/history/soi/soi33.htm

[politicat]

6. Because that's where they tried to settle first.

After they left New England, they stopped briefly in Ohio, then tried to establish a settlement on the west side of the Mississippi. They had issues in Missouri, Kansas and Iowa, and established a township in Illinois. And then that failed. That's when they went to Utah, which at the time was 1) part of Mexico and 2) a bazillion miles from any established US settlement, territory or colony.

If the various massacres and battles in the Midwest hadn't happened, they wouldn't have headed for the deep west. They probably would have established a space somewhere in that area.

[Louisiana1976]

3. Very interesting post.

[teach1st]

7. The comment section is very interesting

My baseball games will have to wait until I finish reading the mostly thoughtful and instructive comments.

Something I haven't seen discussed yet is that with those theoretic North American divisions, immigration to this continent would have been radically different.