edit: “Balkanised” is probably the right word, partition means to divide territory between two other states. If the US did break apart in pieces (probably in some sort of dystopian/everyone is going to die world), i wonder if other countries will try to nab bits of it (e.g. Britain regaining their colonies, Mexico regaining their lost territories, Spain regaining Florida, or even Russia taking over Alaska)
note: I am not advocating for the partition of the US, it’s just fun to think about new countries! Also, I’m not American and have never been there so I have no clue about the different cultures in the different states.
If the US broke up into multiple pieces in some way or another, what new countries would you want to appear? (with and without considering for the feasibility of such new countries) What would their relations be like with each other and with other countries?
Personally, I would think New York (the city) becoming an independent microstate would be kind of cool, like the Vatican City of the stock market. The idea of “Cascadia” (which, to my knowledge, includes California, Oregon, and one other I forgot the name of. I think a bit of Canada too. The west coast, right?) could be realised, and with California, they would have a very beefy economy, as well as Silicon Valley. An independent Alaskan state could also be interesting, especially since they have a cool flag. Same goes for Texas.
They did Colorado dirty, including Cheyenne with Denver alone is pretty dirty but culturally colorado is much more on par with NM and AZ then Wyoming
I think they’re tagging in Laramie there, rather than Cheyanne.
And the Front Range/I70 corridor is distinctly different from most of the rest of the state. I would say that GJ and the SLV are pretty similar to Wyoming.
Colorado has some ranching but is primarily a place for people who love to excercise in nature whether it be skiing, biking, climbing, hiking, etc and that culture is just as true in buena vista as it is in the front range. Cheyenne has some people like that but by and large it’s way more ranchers and farmers and when people do like to do things in nature it’s much more likely to be using some form of motorized vehicle
Laramie is more like Colorado but just looking at a voting map would pretty clearly show how different the culture is from the rest of the Wyoming area then from the front range
I would mostly maintain the Wyoming border except maybe trade Laramie for sterling then extend the western border to include telluride, crested butte, glenwood springs, steamboat springs and Laramie which while different than the front range they have much more in common then Cheyenne