the rural being in northern Maine, NH, and Vermont. The rural parts would love to be independent. They don’t really have an economy though, so it’s hard to say.
yeah there's no way those areas could exist on their own. like you said, they have absolutely no economy. they either become part of canada or get absorbed into one of the nearby big states.
I'm not super sure how much it would - I think VT/MA/RI/CT would align pretty quickly but NH/ME might just fuck off and do their own thing while still maintaining ties with the wider NE area. (Or they'd basically get forced into it because they'd need access to the larger NE economy).
yea I could see that. CT already isn't a 'state', just a suburb for NY and MA. there's no culture or anything, no one would even give a shit if it was gone
Think they'd be forced in. Don't know if Canada wants to annex the territory necessarily, but almost no country would make a trade agreement with just one former state. So they'd be to be an economic unit, likely political as well.
New England congeals pretty quickly I think. They've been a political unit longer than america has existed.
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yeah there's no way those areas could exist on their own. like you said, they have absolutely no economy. they either become part of canada or get absorbed into one of the nearby big states.
Sounds like the State of Jefferson types in rural California.
That's fair. I have a patchy knowledge of NE, and most of it is pre 1900s.
I'm not super sure how much it would - I think VT/MA/RI/CT would align pretty quickly but NH/ME might just fuck off and do their own thing while still maintaining ties with the wider NE area. (Or they'd basically get forced into it because they'd need access to the larger NE economy).
Quebec would annex Vermont
NH/ME would become weird independent libertarian states
MA would be its own thing
CT and RI would get absorbed into NY
More likely to get attached to Massachusetts imo, or at least RI — they're already on the MBTA commuter rail
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yea I could see that. CT already isn't a 'state', just a suburb for NY and MA. there's no culture or anything, no one would even give a shit if it was gone
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Think they'd be forced in. Don't know if Canada wants to annex the territory necessarily, but almost no country would make a trade agreement with just one former state. So they'd be to be an economic unit, likely political as well.
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It's ultimately what the mining companies want, which likely has nothing to do with your desires