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Title: The 11 nations of North America
Post by: viper37 on November 08, 2016, 04:12:37 PM
It dates from 2013, but I don't remember discussing it here.
Link (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/11/08/which-of-the-11-american-nations-do-you-live-in/)

It's part of a book that goes into more detail.
Title: Re: The 11 nations of North America
Post by: Valmy on November 08, 2016, 04:17:40 PM
Damn the map is so small I cannot see clearly if I am in El Norte or Greater Caligaland. I it is the latter though.
Title: Re: The 11 nations of North America
Post by: The Brain on November 08, 2016, 04:18:22 PM
I hate that Shadowrun doesn't have a fixed time but a developing timeline, I can't be bothered to keep up.
Title: Re: The 11 nations of North America
Post by: viper37 on November 08, 2016, 04:30:54 PM
Quote from: Valmy on November 08, 2016, 04:17:40 PM
Damn the map is so small I cannot see clearly if I am in El Norte or Greater Caligaland. I it is the latter though.
Larger map:
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Title: Re: The 11 nations of North America
Post by: Valmy on November 08, 2016, 04:33:37 PM
Ah thanks. Yes Fireblade and Caliga are my countrymen while you foreign San Antonio bastards are over in El Norte.
Title: Re: The 11 nations of North America
Post by: Admiral Yi on November 08, 2016, 04:35:40 PM
Greater Appalachia jibes with my own observations, but I don't get Yankeedom in the upper Midwest.
Title: Re: The 11 nations of North America
Post by: derspiess on November 08, 2016, 04:54:04 PM
Großappalachen
Title: Re: The 11 nations of North America
Post by: Eddie Teach on November 08, 2016, 04:57:52 PM
Agreed, you folks are gross.
Title: Re: The 11 nations of North America
Post by: Rex Francorum on November 08, 2016, 05:00:24 PM
Quote from: viper37 on November 08, 2016, 04:12:37 PM
It dates from 2013, but I don't remember discussing it here.
Link (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/11/08/which-of-the-11-american-nations-do-you-live-in/)

It's part of a book that goes into more detail.

So after 9 nations, there are 11?

The author Joel Garreau suggested in 1981 that North America was culturally/economically divided in 9 nations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Nations_of_North_America

I really wonder how accurate is this new book, because putting southern Louisiana with Québec and part of New Brunswick makes a lot of sense.  :wacko:
Title: Re: The 11 nations of North America
Post by: garbon on November 08, 2016, 05:02:09 PM
Quote from: Rex Francorum on November 08, 2016, 05:00:24 PM
Quote from: viper37 on November 08, 2016, 04:12:37 PM
It dates from 2013, but I don't remember discussing it here.
Link (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/11/08/which-of-the-11-american-nations-do-you-live-in/)

It's part of a book that goes into more detail.

So after 9 nations, there are 11?

The author Joel Garreau suggested in 1981 that North America was culturally/economically divided in 9 nations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Nations_of_North_America

I really wonder how accurate is this new book.

I.feel.like we definitely talked about this more recent one a few years back.

Anyway, we're in a whole new century!
Title: Re: The 11 nations of North America
Post by: dps on November 08, 2016, 05:03:16 PM
Not really a new concept.  There was a 1981 book called "The Nine Nations of North America" that advanced similar, though obviously not identical, ideas.
Title: Re: The 11 nations of North America
Post by: Malthus on November 08, 2016, 05:13:17 PM
Quote from: Rex Francorum on November 08, 2016, 05:00:24 PM
Quote from: viper37 on November 08, 2016, 04:12:37 PM
It dates from 2013, but I don't remember discussing it here.
Link (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/11/08/which-of-the-11-american-nations-do-you-live-in/)

It's part of a book that goes into more detail.

So after 9 nations, there are 11?

The author Joel Garreau suggested in 1981 that North America was culturally/economically divided in 9 nations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Nations_of_North_America

I really wonder how accurate is this new book, because putting southern Louisiana with Québec and part of New Brunswick makes a lot of sense.  :wacko:

The old one was also a bit wonky:

QuoteThe Foundry — the by-then-declining industrial areas of the northeastern United States and Great Lakes region stretching from New York City to Milwaukee and down to the suburbs of Washington DC in Northern Virginia, and including Chicago, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Toledo, Philadelphia, and Southern Ontario centering on Toronto. Capital: Detroit.

An area that includes NYC, Toronto and Chicago - and its capital is Detroit?  :lol:

Back to the drawing board with that!
Title: Re: The 11 nations of North America
Post by: Eddie Teach on November 08, 2016, 05:25:24 PM
Detroit natives will thrive in the post-apocalyptic world, due to their greater experience.
Title: Re: The 11 nations of North America
Post by: Malthus on November 08, 2016, 05:28:57 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on November 08, 2016, 05:25:24 PM
Detroit natives will thrive in the post-apocalyptic world, due to their greater experience.

You make a good point.  :hmm:
Title: Re: The 11 nations of North America
Post by: Savonarola on November 08, 2016, 06:30:21 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 08, 2016, 05:02:09 PM
I.feel.like we definitely talked about this more recent one a few years back.

Why yes we did. (http://languish.org/forums/index.php/topic,10689)  You can tell even this one is old since Tampa and Orlando aren't part of the Spanish Caribbean.

I had suggested Siege use that premise as the basis of his novel in this thread (http://languish.org/forums/index.php/topic,10708).  I don't think he listened to me, though.   :(