Northeasterners For A United Atlasia

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

X Senator Harry S Truman

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

We were where the first colonizers of the land formerly known as America landed.

>cough<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown,_Virginia>cough<

Nevertheless, the governor is correct: the fate of the Northeast is intertwined with that of Atlasia. The departure of the Northeast would effectively kill the Republic of Atlasia (which, admittedly, is what some proponents of independence want) - in one fell swoop, the President, Vice President, Secretary of Federal Elections, the Secretary of Home Affairs, 1/5 of the Senate, and 1/3 of the Supreme Court, not to mention the chair of the fourth-largest political party. Nor is it certain that the Northeast would survive the split - as Pikachu rightly notes, the economy of this great region is thoroughly interconnected with markets in her sister Regions, and several of the most active Northeasterners (Pikachu, Rpryor, Blair, etc.) oppose independence, suggesting that they would be disinclined to remain active if the split is made. As it is, the Northeast has a near-monopoly of the executive branch and is the only region overrepresented in the Con-Con. Northeast independence makes about as much sense as England seceding from the UK: you have little to gain and everything to loose.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

We were where the first colonizers of the land formerly known as America landed.

>cough<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown,_Virginia>cough<

no no no your region doesn't get it either

puerto rico was colonised a century before either of those. and if you don't want to count that, st. augustine, florida is quite a bit older as well. (not to mention all the colonizers who landed and then left again, or died)

True, but Virginia joined the Union before Florida and Puerto Rico, so we're still the oldest of the original state.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

We were where the first colonizers of the land formerly known as America landed.

>cough<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown,_Virginia>cough<

no no no your region doesn't get it either

puerto rico was colonised a century before either of those. and if you don't want to count that, st. augustine, florida is quite a bit older as well. (not to mention all the colonizers who landed and then left again, or died)

True, but Virginia joined the Union before Florida and Puerto Rico, so we're still the oldest of the original state.

and massachusetts joined before virginia

But Virginians drafted the Declaration of Independence, commanded the Continental Army, and presided over the Constitutional Convention. Plus, we have more Civil War battlefields.

The firsts three to join were Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, meaning the United States (Atlasia's predecessor) started in the Northeast.

I would argue that the U.S. began with the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution. Regardless, I think we can agree that both of our Regions have their fair share of historical landmarks.