After a couple weeks hiatus to work on erosity and apportionment regions, it's time to return to the remaining 4 "nations". Next up is New England, in which Garreau includes the six New England states minus SW CT. Fairfield is unmistably not in New England, but New Haven and Litchfield are on the border and could be left out as they are part of the NYC CSA. I left them in this nation to give southern New England a more reasonable population. I also added the counties of the northern Adirondacks of NY here as well to fit with northern New England.
New England has the population for 2.2 states, but there's no natural way to divide it into two other than the Boston metro and everything else, but that would link Hartford, Burlington and most of Maine. It's tempting to put it all in one state, but I decided to go with the traditional north, south, and Boston split.
States (and principal city) with 2010 populations in millions are:
Abenaki (Manchester) 3.8
Wampanoag (Boston) 4.9
Pequot (Providence) 5.1
Culturally I think it would somewhat more sense for Hampshire County, Massachusetts to go in Abenaki, but I do understand the economic grounds for putting it in Pequot.
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