What state's borders should be changed?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

El Paso should have been a part of New Mexico.

Actually, El Paso should be the capital of a new State consprising Texas west of the Pecos and southern New Mexico.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Ecotopia is the name from Joel Garreau's 1981 book Nine Nations of North America. Since the boundaries are based on that work, I'll stick with his names. Garreau cites a 1975 novel as the basis for the name.

I actually have the novel.  I got it as a paperback back in '83.  It was a bit dated even then and it certainly has not aged well.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I think you paid a bit too much attention to geography there, especially with your atrocious border between Catawba and Powhatan.   Go ahead and give central Virgina to Powhatan in exchange for the Pee Dee and southeast North Carolina going to Catawba.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I think you paid a bit too much attention to geography there, especially with your atrocious border between Catawba and Powhatan.   Go ahead and give central Virgina to Powhatan in exchange for the Pee Dee and southeast North Carolina going to Catawba.

I appreciate the local input. Where would you place the line in NC? If I look at a dialect map it looks like Raleigh-Durham sits right near that line that separates the Richmond/Tidewater dialect from most of the Carolinas. Is that a useful division?

Yup.  I can't say where exactly the diving line should be, but northeast North Carolina really is part of Virginia.  It was even settled from there even before the Carolina colony was legally established.

Closer to home, I'd put Orangeburg County into the Black Belt state of Muskogee.  Culturally Saluda County, SC could go in any of the three, but economically, it's part of the Aiken-Augusta CSRA that you have in Muskogee.  If it works to help balance the populations, you could move the Charleston Tricounty area from Muskogee to Catawba, tho that ain't essential.  It's more a case of Charleston being its own little world, but to small to be a state of its own.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Incidentally, the North Carolina - South Carolina border is in the middle of being clarified.  Here's a story about it.  The full story has several other problems the clarification is causing.

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Here's the doctor's home.  The blue line is where South Carolina thought the border was, the orange line is where North Carolina thought the border was, and the yellow line is where the boundary commission has determined where the border is.



In other places the border is moving to put people who thought they were in South Carolina into North Carolina, including a convenience store that sells fireworks and beer that it won't be able to in North Carolina. (South Carolina has the most liberal fireworks laws in the US, and the store would be in a dry county in North Carolina.  The store is located on the border mainly to sell beer to thirsty North Carolinians and some 70% of its sales are in those two items that would be banned once the clarification is approved.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Does this have an effect on the Andrew Jackson birthplace?

Not that I'm aware of.  There are several different locations near the border that are claimed to be the Jackson birthplace, but I don't think any of them are so close to the border as to switch states.