I feel like every map I’ve seen is basically a variation of the second American Civil War in the Kaiserreich HOI4 mod.
What do you think a balkanized United States would actually look like?
(I’m new to this platform so sorry if this isn’t the right place to post this.)
Whenever I ponder the balkanization of the US, I wonder who will gain control of the nuclear arsenal. We were lucky that when the USSR broke up, Russian managed to corral their nuclear weapons and the world wasn’t left with a bunch of nuclear armed countries in middle Asia.
It would be kinda funny tho if every state kept its nukes, a North Dakota-Missouri nuclear standoff would be crazy
I’d assume it would be an odd situation where D.C. would still have the launch codes, but all the infrastructure is obviously stuck in the mid west. Frankly that’s for the best because nuclear armed Montana sounds like a nightmare scenario.
the mega-texas would gain control of it.
only melaninated-americans have sufficiently distinct cultures to create a balkanized landscape of culturally distinct countries, but they’re only approximately 1/3 of the population and are almost entirely centered within metropolises; texas and california are the only exceptions to this with its evangelical leaning latines.
this means that balkanization would have to happen across political divisions and, when you look at a county-by-county red vs blue election maps, you’ll see a entire sea of red with blue bubbles of varying sizes within it.
the current day texas is a miniature version of this and balkanization split by political affiliation like this would mirror texas’ situation; thus creating a mega-texas that would reach from coast to coast if it weren’t for the largest blue bubbles occupying the actual coasts.
the entirety of the american nuclear arsenal would be within the red area and all of the blue bubbles would be economically dependent on it except for the largest blue bubbles on the coasts; meaning that mega-texas would be able to bully all of the smaller blue bubbles like the united states does to the global south today.