Following the unfortunate1 result of the American election, some witty disillusioned Yankees have been redrawing their maps. Instead of leaving their country in disgust, they're carving it up. Gone are the red states, or at least parts of them, and a new type of nation, filled with liberal thinkers, will be formed.
Ian Williams has declared American Coastopia where "we're taking all the people that ever created everything beautiful. Yes, we're taking all the funny people too. All the sculptors, architects, surgeons, philosophers, violinists and fishermen. You should have treated them better when you had them."
Mena Trott has envisioned a merger with us neighbours up North to form Canada 2.0 and leaving behind the now renamed United States of Texas below the 49th parallel. Over at Let's Riot, they've done much the same as Mena but have named their amalgamated nation the United States of Canada, leaving Jesusland to the south.
Any other competing geopolitical visions out there I've missed?
1 By the way, "unfortunate" is my favourite euphasim for the truly horrible. The next time someone asks you to assess something and you can't say anything good, just tell them it's unfortunate.
Comments
Richard - November 7, 2004 12:48 PM
C.B. Shapiro has made a similar argument on Boing Boing calling for the USAB and the USAR (Blue and Red respectively). Awfully funny. Link
Lisa - November 8, 2004 10:45 AM
You probably saw this already, but over at Boing Boing Jeff Culver posted a map that doesn't redraw the boundaries of the nation, but does give a more accurate view of the "purple haze" of the USA. He was frustrated by the overly simplistic red vs blue maps that all the major news networks were showing, which didn't really take into account all the people in red states who voted blue and vice versa. I found it vaguely comforting...
http://www.boingboing.net/images/Purple-USA.jpg
Gary MacDonald - November 8, 2004 10:07 PM
I think Speak Up has just about every rendition on this theme.