United States of America

Demography

Regions
Interior

States
State of Anacostia
State of Minasota
State of Missouri
State of Tahosa
State of Shackamia
State of West Florida

National Preserve Territories
National Preserve Territory of Yellow Rock

Cities
Cities in the United States

Websteropolis

Admission of States of the United States of America

Rank by admission	State	Date admitted	Slave (s) or free (f)
1	Delaware	1787	s[1]abolished in 1857, as gradual abolition post 1860.
2	Pennsylvania	1787	f
3	New Jersey	1787	f
4	Georgia	1788	s
5	Connecticut	1788	f
6	Massachusetts	1788	f
7	Maryland	1788	s[2]abolished in 1867, as gradual abolition post 1870.
8	South Carolina	1788	s
9	New Hampshire	1788	f
10	Virginia	1788	s
11	New York	1788	f
12	North Carolina	1789	s
13	Rhode Island	1790	f
14	Vermont	1791	f
15	Kentucky	1792	s
16	Tennessee	1796	s
17	Ohio	1803	f
18	Indiana	1813	f
19	Yazoo	1814	s
20	Mississippi	1821	s
21	Illinois	1829	s
22	Orleans	1832	s
23	New Ireland	1832	f
24	Missouri	1837	s
25	Wisconsan	1844	f
26	Arkansaw	1859	s
27	West Florida	1861	s
28	Juniper	1861	f
29	Ontonagon	1867	f
30	Nibrasca	1869(*)	f
31	Kances	1870	f
32	Maine	1871	f
33	Olympia	1871	f
34	Alleghania	1872	f
35	Franklin	1878(**)
36	Cimarron[3]Applied for admission in 1867, secured enabling act, and issued a constitution. Whether their constitutions met the enabling act's terms was disputed, recognition of their electoral delegations for the 1868 election was one of the disputes that caused the division of the United States into two governments in 1869 and the subsequent <a href="../../../.././wars/us's-wars/liberty-and-union-war-(1868-76).html" class="wikilink">Liberty and Union War (1868-76)</a>. By the time it came to an end in 1876, their constitutions and statehood was struck as invalid and, by the First State Readmission Act, they needed to apply for statehood under strict terms.	1883
37	Pembina	1886
38	East Florida[3]Applied for admission in 1867, secured enabling act, and issued a constitution. Whether their constitutions met the enabling act's terms was disputed, recognition of their electoral delegations for the 1868 election was one of the disputes that caused the division of the United States into two governments in 1869 and the subsequent <a href="../../../.././wars/us's-wars/liberty-and-union-war-(1868-76).html" class="wikilink">Liberty and Union War (1868-76)</a>. By the time it came to an end in 1876, their constitutions and statehood was struck as invalid and, by the First State Readmission Act, they needed to apply for statehood under strict terms.	1893
39	Anacostia	1895
40	Tahosa	1897
41	Minasota	1901
42	Shackamia	1910

(*) Followed the outbreak of the Liberty and Union War (1868-76), new states not recognized by the Richmondite Government
(**) Fourteenth Amendment banned slavery in 1873; Richmondite Government overthrown, fled in 1876

Notes

-Without the War of 1812, the Maine statehood movement is much weaker, and after a certain point it falls into a stiff decline
-Democratic Maine being part of Whiggish Massachusetts means Massachusetts is somewhat of a swing state, and this gives Maine a strong position of influence when Populists come to power in the state
-The Louisiana Purchase never happened, instead it's obtained (along with Florida) in US's Wars > Luisiana War (1823-8)
-When the US conquers Spanish Louisiana, the OTL Louisiana state has enough population to be annexed immediately
-With a much later acquisition of Louisiana, Britain is able to get firm control over the Oregon Territory, the US buys the Olympic Peninsula and the right to build roads to and from it for an ample sum later on
-Mississippi Territory does not incorporate the Gulf coastline, and so instead of being divided north-south (to give both states access to the Gulf), it's divided east-west (to give both states access to the Mississippi)
-And needing to shore up the South's position in the Senate results in Florida (incl. the bits annexed by Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana) divided into two
-Without the Louisiana Purchase, there's a lot more southern migration into the Midwest, and it's enough to tip Illinois into ratifying a slave state constitution which gets approved by Congress after a brief sectional crisis, and as a result its boundary does not get revised northwards and it lacks Chicago
-Many of the southerners who went into Texas in OTL instead go into Missouri. With Illinois a slave state, they're able to open slave plantations on the Mississippi shore, and Missouri is far more securely a slave state
-Missouri is smaller (boundary at the Osage) due to a stronger North during the later Missouri crisis though

-Michigan gets the Toledo Strip, and as a result it doesn't get the Upper Peninsula
-Indian Removal is delayed relative to OTL, and because of them getting pushed by the states OTL attempts for Cherokee, Creek, others to move to Texas works
-and so far smaller reservations in OTL Oklahoma emerge, opening it to later settlement
-An OTL proposal to turn most of southern Minnesota into an Indian Territory to deport Midwestern tribes gets through with the Midwest more settled and Minnesota less than OTL
-Wisconsin initially wants to get the remainder of the Northwest Territory, but it gets blocked from annexing the St. Croix Valley and the Upper Peninsula, which instead goes to a separate state, called Ontonagon as was an OTL proposal (Congress refused to let it name itself Superior)

-Juniper (Iowa, named after the red cedar (juniper) tree for the Cedar Valley) gets a very different shape because the North, wanting to pack in more free states, secures for it a smaller western boundary extending Missouri's and, as compensation, gives it a bit of the North-West Indian Territory stretching to OTL Minneapolis as was an OTL proposal, then stretched further to construct railroads through it
-Pembina Territory gets opened up in order to open up a path to a northern transcontinental railroad, and also to satisfy land hunger for the South-West Indian Territory, but it gets settled very slowly

-Nibrasca Territory, consisting of land extending from Missouri, Juniper consisting of Nibraska, Kances, and land to the Rockies to make room for the railroad
-with Kances divided off to make room for a slave territory, is major battleground of slave way
-and Cimarron created in same burst

-Slavery tensions spark a civil war after the disputed 1868 election, goes much worse for the North but it wins by 1876
-In the interim, to prevent a pro-compromise candidate from winning the coming election, the North admits a number of states (not recognized by southern government)

-Liberty and Union War (1868-76) states
-Olympia, effectively a city-state centred around the city-state of the much larger Port Townsend (the only American port on the Pacific), gets admission
-West Virginia equiv is much smaller because the James River and Kanawha Canal gets constructed and turns the Kanawha Valley into a slaveowning region
-East Tennessee's statehood movement goes off and succeeds, with the name of its 1780s attempt
-Maine's statehood movement makes a return with Massachusetts becoming very much dominant-party to the detriment of its importance, and it gets it

-postwar
-Country folders/Americas/United States/Economy/Mineral rushes > Pikes Peak Gold Rush (1878) occurs in southwest part of Nibrasca territory, causes southward push, territory to be admitted of Tahosa, "Dweller of the Mountain Tops"
-Country folders/Americas/United States/Economy/Mineral rushes > Washingtonia Gold Rush (1882) sees that whole area populated by whites, settled and named after George Washington (this clunky name was proposed for OTL Washington by Stephen Douglas)
-precedent for city-state set, and so with DC having boomed way more thanks to Chesapeake and Ohio Canal built way earlier and Second Bank headquartered there, gets admitted as State of Anacostia, named after river
-Following Country folders/Americas/United States/Economy/Mineral rushes > Black Hills Gold Rush (1902), Sioux reservation put to an end
-Minasota has as its origins as the North-West Indian Territory, a pile of "useless land" to put Native American into (and also gets a bunch of Metis), and later it gets statehood when Country folders/Americas/United States/Economy/Mineral rushes > Black Hills Gold Rush (1902) puts an end to Sioux reservation and brings more pressure for settlement, land reorganization

Old

-The remaining land also gets settled, with a small border adjustment giving it control of the whole west bank of the Missouri River because the federal government doesn't want it in the North-West Indian Territory in the name of security (thus why it looks like that), and it gets admitted as the State of Jefferson (a name proposed a few times in OTL)
-The North-West Indian Territory gets a number of other Native American tribes deported there (with a lot of friction between them and the Dakota) as well as a fair number of Metis fleeing the Red River Colony's annexation to Upper Canada, and they're reluctant for statehood because it would mean allowing white settlers, but with the frontier closed everywhere else there's an increasing land hunger for it, and so after some years of close but failed votes for opening it up, they apply for statehood as "Minasota" under a constitution giving them protection and get it, and they're able to manage the subsequent white settlement well

National Preserve Territories

Rank by age	Name	Date established
1	Yellow Rock	1862
2	Medina Pass	1882

-run by separate service
-nobody permanent in the area
-citizens vote like abroad voters

Yellow Rock

-see National Preserve Territory of Yellow Rock

-area: 39,886 km^2

Medina Pass

-area: 30,481 km^2

-named after Spanish guy, not Islamic holy site
-but there are many jokes made on this vibe
-in the wake of Country folders/Americas/United States/Economy/Mineral rushes > Pikes Peak Gold Rush (1878), development of spectacular locales causes talk of preserving them
-results in reservation of Medina Pass [Fremont Pass] as federal land from settlement
-for national visits at large
-following US's Wars > White Knight rebellions (1878-94), which sees action in State of Tahosa, the US government dissolves the declared "Territory of Harrison"
-the US government decides to separate out Medina Pass, and expand it dramatically, into a separate park
-turns this into a national tourist attraction

Largest cities in the United States

Cities in the United States >>

Parts of the United States of America

General info

-cities are required to be chartered
-every city with >100,000 people and >= 500 ppl/km^2 density is additionally chartered under federal government
-total of 281 federally chartered cities
-most of them are east of Mississippi, only two (Websteropolis and Cherisia) are in Interior
-a lot of cities not on this list on the Eastern Corridor
-along the shore from Portland to Fernandina
-to the extent the Eastern Corridor sometimes said to be one extended city

-land value tax being a thing means cities tend to densify
-and because of auto-annexation provisions of Constitution of the United States (1885) > Section 5. Organization of Cities they annex suburbs
-and with city density level being >= 500 /km^2 (assumptions of 1892 population levels) suburbs have to be very sparse to avoid annexation
-unless they're in separate states
-cities have higher land value tax than the rest of the US which also promotes densification
-to the level of townhouse complexes max
-this means to avoid annexation and have lower tax brackets, suburbs must either
-have large greenbelts annexed and avoid development there
-separate themselves (by at least 5 km w/ roads, rail b/w) from the city
-follow garden city plan of having pretty massive green space throughout and owned by city
-have pretty large parks, including several forests

-total of 206,456,000 people, of 67% of population, live in these metro areas
-other cities >= 100,000 people federally chartered contain another 58 million people, of 19% of US's population
-and then another 15 million people, of 5% of US's population, in non-federally chartered cities
-last 30 million, or 10% of population, live in rural areas

Broad history

-with Liberty and Union War (1868-76) a great many cities left in ruins
-New York City blown up
-and only haphazardly reconstructed afterwards
-Cincinnati greatly damaged
-Chicago continues to have piles of bodies from brutal battle inspiring disease
-Washington only reconstructed for functionality
-most of South in wreck

-reconstruction sees unprecedented planning for cities as part of building "new society"
-Washington dramatically remodelled to become a city of grandeur
-hyper-opulent as well
-a lot of room made for modern neoclassical architecture
-as well as the State of Anacostia > National Colosseum
-New York City planned through a more privatized process
-ample space for parks and greenbelts
-in particular Union Square expanded and turned into Versailles-style garden
-more decentralized commercial districts across city
-plans for expansion also established
-and industry directed by city and state
-and most optimally new architectural harmony but not imposed particularly well
-across the South there's a new focus on New England-style cities as it's they who join up with the Freedmen's Department
-city greens established in central grounds
-new churches become central element in such cities

-with postwar urbanization as many soldiers choose to move to cities crisis emerges as many determine how to accommodate
-new crisis emerges of wealthy in banleagues [suburbs] not paying to city taxes
-new idea that emerges is of satellite "garden city" which is much less dense than most cities
-and a lot more green space managed by city administration
-slowly put into practice
-green space particularly useful to many in the city proper

-Constitution of the United States (1885) puts into practice idea that cities deserve some sort of special recognition
-now required to be chartered
-and sufficiently large cities get federal chartering to free them from whims of the state
-additionally banleagues with density greater than 500/km^2 annexed into city proper
-results in new pattern of cities of the periurban crown
-garden cities with "low enough" density now established as a sort of "crown" around cities as a banleague
-connected through rail and in this era built around Velocipede
-it's only after these garden cities that truly populated banleagues exist
-although many of them are also garden cities
-and most of them are shaped around velocipede as well
-this pattern often justified on basis that periurban crown serves as "lungs" of the city to prevent metaphorical (or even literal) asphyxiation

-south continues to lag developmentally
-huge amounts of population change as many whites either killed or emigrate
-in-migration of Europeans (esp. Eastern Europeans) and Northerners changes it a lot
-also many black people wary of living in cities and prefer the farm
-aside from in Upper South where land redistribution was less intense
-although in Appalachia industrialism rises
-large white population moves to city
-likewise in Virginia modernization sees rise of Richmond and Norfolk as truly huge cities
-and Charleston sees dramatic rise as a port
-also West Florida becomes totally remade by war
-thanks to rise of resorts and Vitascopy industry
-becomes the "American Riviera", also known as the "Silver Coast"
-by modern day there's a pretty big migration to the south with rise of air cooling and electrification

Ranking

Rank	City	State	City proper	Metropolitan
1	New York City[1]Does not include Staten Island but does include Westchester, Rockland, and Nassau Counties	New York	18,590,000	22,785,000
2	St. Louis	Missouri	11,121,000	15,038,000
3	Cincinnati	Ohio	8,547,000	10,415,000
4	Richmond	Virginia	7,231,000	7,576,000
5	Charleston	South Carolina	5,991,000	6,291,000
6	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	5,713,000	7,278,000
7	Segovia[2]Tulsa	Cansa	4,876,000	5,147,000
8	Black Rock[3]Buffalo	New York	4,733,000	4,813,000
9	St. Paul	Ontonagon	4,422,000	6,042,000
10	Norfolk[4]Includes Norfolk and Virginia Beach	Virginia	4,401,000	4,840,000
11	Persitia[5]Atlanta - Latinization of the indigenous name, Peachtree	Georgia	4,269,000	4,405,000
12	Boston	Massachusetts	4,210,000	7,521,000
13	New Orleans	Orleans	4,180,000	6,743,000
14	Independence	Missouri	3,788,000	5,012,000
15	East St. Louis	Illinois	3,750,000	15,038,000[6]Greater St. Louis
16	Memphis	Tennessee	3,719,000	6,948,000
17	Fairfax	Virginia	3,287,000	9,083,000[7]part of the Washington metropolitan area
18	Vermillionville[8]Lafayette	Orleans	3,191,000	3,421,000
19	Wilmington	North Carolina	2,983,000	3,161,000
20	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania	2,829,000	3,447,000
21	Concord[9]Indianapolis - proposed name	Indiana	2,725,000	2,929,000
22	Greensboro	North Carolina	2,659,000	2,732,000
23	Sandusky	Ohio	2,648,000	2,727,000
24	Jersey City[10]includes the whole of northwestern New Jersey, including Staten Island	New Jersey	2,581,000	22,785,000[11]part of Greater New York
25	Raleigh	North Carolina	2,501,000	2,578,000
26	Mandeville	West Florida	2,442,000	6,743,000[12]part of the New Orleans metro area
27	Louisville	Kentucky	2,422,000	3,991,000
28	Wichata	Cansa	2,342,000	2,547,000
29	Fayetteville	North Carolina	2,307,000	2,434,000
30	Millewackie	Wisconsan	2,260,000	2,352,000
31	Lille[13]Birmingham, Alabama - named after a different industrial center	Yazoo	2,201,000	2,329,000
32	Lynchburg	Virginia	1,929,000	2,321,000
33	Miami[14]Toledo - named after river	Michigan	1,903,000	3,562,000
34	Bladensburg	Maryland	1,873,000	9,083,000[7]part of the Washington metropolitan area
35	Ballytone[15]Columbus, Ohio	Ohio	1,859,000	2,175,000
36	Washington[16]Consists of OTL Washington east of Rock Creek, and not including the Anacostia coast	Anacostia	1,643,000	9,083,000
37	Coatesbourg[17]Shreveport	Orleans	1,638,000	1,814,000
38	West Memphis	Tennessee	1,594,000	6,948,000[18]part of the Memphis metropolitan area
39	Rochester	New York	1,586,000	1,638,000
40	Fernandina	East Florida	1,577,000	2,473,000
41	Jeffersonville	Indiana	1,512,000	3,991,000[19]part of the Louisville metropolitan area
42	Ballyburr[20]Michigan City - named by New Yorker settlers after Aaron Burr	Indiana	1,483,000	1,997,000
43	St. Anthony[21]Minneapolis	Juniper	1,460,000	6,042,000[22]part of Greater St. Paul
44	Chicago	Wisconsan	1,441,000	1,512,000
45	Portsmouth	New Hampshire	1,429,000	7,521,000[23]part of the Boston metro area
46	Pensacola	West Florida	1,424,000	1,651,000
47	Covington	Kentucky	1,401,000	10,415,000[24]part of Greater Cincinnati
48	Syracuse	New York	1,392,000	1,453,000
49	Perrysburg	Ohio	1,381,000	3,562,000[25]part of the Greater Miami Area
50	Fort Wayne	Indiana	1,356,000	1,567,000
51	Knoxville	Franklin	1,341,000	1,418,000
52	Mobile	West Florida	1,344,000	1,836,000
53	Chattanooga	Franklin	1,282,000	1,321,000
54	Topequa	Cansa	1,234,000	1,341,000
55	Albany	New York	1,212,000	1,349,000
56	Boston[26]Kansas City, Kansas	Cansa	1,189,000	5,012,000[27]part of the Independence metro area
57	Baltimore	Maryland	1,165,000	1,252,000
58	Worcester	Massachusetts	1,103,000	7,521,000[23]part of the Boston metro area
59	Allentown	Pennsylvania	1,074,000	1,162,000
60	Columbia	South Carolina	1,054,000	1,223,000
61	Twickenham[28]Huntsville - former name, named after birthplace of Alexander Pope	Yazoo	1,017,000	1,231,000
62	Fondulac[29]Duluth, Minnesota	Ontonagon	968,000	1,045,000
63	Harrisburg	Pennsylvania	947,000	1,032,000
64	Camden	New Jersey	911,000	7,278,000[30]part of the Philadelphia metro area
65	Milan	Ohio	888,000	921,000
66	Lexington	Kentucky	879,000	993,000
67	St. Marys	Georgia	865,000	2,473,000[31]part of the Fernandina metro area
68	Iron Gate	Virginia	848,000	893,000
69	New Haven	Connecticut	824,000	22,785,000[11]part of Greater New York
70	Providence	Rhode Island	806,000	7,521,000[23]part of the Boston metro area
71	Dorr[32]Sioux City - named after Thomas Wilson Dorr	Nibrasca	793,000	848,000
72	Savannah	Georgia	764,000	1,241,000
73	Burlington	Vermont	748,000	781,000
74	Appalachicola	West Florida	729,000	904,000
75	Sowashee[33]Meridian, Mississippi	Mississippi	701,000	732,000
76	Cedar Rapids	Juniper	683,000	703,000
77	Augusta	Georgia	662,000	991,000
78	Tipton[34]Southaven	Yazoo	645,000	6,948,000[18]part of the Memphis metropolitan area
79	Green Bay	Wisconsan	622,000	653,000
80	Espirito Santo[35]Tampa	West Florida	603,000	739,000
81	Fitzgerald[36]Ann Arbor - named after Irish nationalist hero Lord Edward Fitzgerald	Michigan	598,000	621,000
82	Cleveland	Ohio	583,000	602,000
83	Steubenville	Ohio	571,000	3,447,000[37]part of the Pittsburgh metro area
84	Trenton	New Jersey	564,000	581,000
85	Harrisonopolis[38]Jefferson, Missouri	Missouri	559,000	572,000
86	Harpers Ferry	Virginia	549,000	582,000
87	Peoria	Illinois	542,000	574,000
88	Wilmington	Delaware	533,000	7,278,000[30]part of the Philadelphia metro area
89	Fredericksburg	Virginia	524,000	549,000
90	Charleston	Virginia	516,000	541,000
91	Lancaster	Pennsylvania	508,000	531,000
92	Portland	Maine	502,000	524,000
93	Galinee[39]New Buffalo	Michigan	491,000	1,997,000[40]part of the Ballyburr metro area
94	Wheeling	Alleghania	479,000	770,000
95	Geecheeville[41]parts of Jasper & Beaufort County	South Carolina	462,000	1,241,000[42]part of the Savannah metro area
96	Vogels Ferry[43]Grand Forks	Pembina	451,000	473,000
97	Nashville	Tennessee	443,000	501,000
98	Cromwell[44]Portage	Wisconsan	419,000	474,000
99	Brunswick	Georgia	414,000	458,000
100	Detroit	Michigan	406,000	445,000
101	Wetonqua[45]Wetonka, South Dakota	Minasota	386,000	430,000
>

Notes

-the US is a very different society here due to much less expansion and little West Coast presence
-as a result, there is less room for Sun Belt migration, which still happens but is less
-furthermore, without the US becoming a world power in the same way, and without Europe being as wrecked, American industry doesn't have a time period of being complacent and so modernizes more early, resulting in no Rust Belt
-while also being focused much more on internal production
-and more protectionism allowing for more industry (with largely internal market)

-New York gets amalgamated early (in 1872) and attempts to rehouse people from its tenements considerably earlier
-note that due to Washington housing Bank of the United States, it is not quite heavy center of financial industry, resulting in it becoming relatively smaller in 19th century
-nevertheless, it's still clear center of the United States and booms more with less Rust Belt and no 70s syndrome
-also Land Value Tax helps it a lot

-St. Louis gets much more development thanks to, first transcontinental railroad, and second, it gets massive post-Liberty and Union War (1868-76) construction
-and lack of West Coast meaning more people move here

-due to almost no West Coast, more people move to Midwest (esp. Ohio)
-also Illinois is slave state here, so fewer people move there
-resulting in way bigger Cincinnati, which retains the importance it had in this smaller US

-New Orleans does way better due to much greater importance of Mississippi River here
-and also no equiv of Jones Act making shipping through it more viable

-due to Chicago being in sep state from Illinois, canal to Mississippi that makes it big gets constructed beginning in 1848 (ends in 1857), and it takes till the late 1880s for Chicago to be raised
-resulting in it losing and becoming just a major port
-however, during Liberty and Union War (1868-76), it is very important as, with Illinois going Richmondite, Chicago is only land connection b/w Constitutionalist east and west
-giving it nickname "Keystone City"

-St. Paul is eastern terminus of second transcontinental railroad, resulting in it being way bigger
-in addition to further importance of Mississippi making it major inland port

-Ohio and Erie and Miami and Erie Canals get constructed in the 1810s and 20s, helping both Cincinnati and Toledo
-also Sandusky gets selected as mouth of Ohio and Erie canal, making it take the place of Cleveland in history (albeit with less growth thanks to Cincinnati's hugeness)

-Michigan invests way more in Toledo, and so it replaces Detroit as its big metropolis
-note, however, that it doesn't become a one-industry town, resulting in a less massive boom (and also less urban decay)

-Indiana does well with its Mammoth Internal Improvements Bill, resulting in Michigan City blooming as a city
-Illinois selects Peoria as a capital, developing it as its big city
-Independence, Missouri gets selected as town with transcontinental train station, and so it booms in place of Kansas City and becomes center of its town

-the South sees way more industry due to protectionist policies under American Presidents > 1833-1837 Henry Clay (Democratic) and American Presidents > 1845-1852 Daniel Webster (Democratic) † being default in antebellum history
-also, cheaper "slave price" due to trans-Caribbean slave trade resulting in slave breeding plantations being much bigger, resulting in more slaves available for industry
-this rubs off to post-plantation era
-Richmond becomes much larger due to this slave-powered slavery
-and also James River and Kanawha Canal gets constructed, both Richmond and Louisville boom thanks to it
-and so does Lynchburg
-Charleston likewise does boom for same reason
-and Charleston, Louisville, and Cincinnati Railroad is among first railroads
-a canal connecting Savannah and Tennessee rivers gets made in 1820s, and so Atlanta booms earlier with a different name
-and following rise of air coolers and all that, massive migration down south centralized to little US parts

-Baltimore stagnates heavily due to investing in much less prominent canals instead of B&O Railroad
-and also because Washington takes its place
-by the modern day, it is effectively an outlying suburb of Washington
-connected by rail

-while Chesapeake and Ohio Canal results in Washington booming
-also it gets much more industry, (National University of the United States of America > Smithsonian Institution) being university results in university students being there, tech boom being prominent there
-note that the state of Anacostia is effectively a city-state with its governor effectively a mayor, and if you count it as such, its population is over 3 million

-Burlington Vermont booms thanks to being suburb of big Montreal
-and also because Laurentian Republic > Laurentian Crisis (1886-8) led to many businesses fleeing to there
-and though Montreal has long since recovered the boom of Burlington never ended

-Reconstruction being a success here means Wilmington booms and doesn't suffer its 1898 coup
-and canalization of Cape Fear River means Fayetteville sees great boom

-due to Port Townsend being only American port on the Pacific, it expands hugely

-Fernandina gets selected as Atlantic terminus for canal from Suwanee to Atlantic, and this makes it leading city of Florida

-The Erie Canal's terminus is selected as Black Rock instead of Buffalo, and so Black Rock eats Buffalo instead of the other way around
-additionally, Rochester has become something of an out-lying suburb of Black Rock, connected by rail

Old notes

-In general, the Midwest never turns into the Rust Belt because, first, this is a timeline without World War II and so the US doesn't just sit complacent in its industry's super-confidence, and second, without California and the rest of the west, industry doesn't move stuff like the tech boom instead occurs in the Midwest
-Fort Wayne is bigger because it's both on the Wabash and Erie Canal and the terminus of the canal to Michigan City

-Websteropolis, Pembina - Minot, South Dakota, major center with at least 200k people

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1. Does not include Staten Island but does include Westchester, Rockland, and Nassau Counties ↩
2. Tulsa ↩
3. Buffalo ↩
4. Includes Norfolk and Virginia Beach ↩
5. Atlanta - Latinization of the indigenous name, Peachtree ↩
6. Greater St. Louis ↩
7. part of the Washington metropolitan area ↩
8. Lafayette ↩
9. Indianapolis - proposed name ↩
10. includes the whole of northwestern New Jersey, including Staten Island ↩
11. part of Greater New York ↩
12. part of the New Orleans metro area ↩
13. Birmingham, Alabama - named after a different industrial center ↩
14. Toledo - named after river ↩
15. Columbus, Ohio ↩
16. Consists of OTL Washington east of Rock Creek, and not including the Anacostia coast ↩
17. Shreveport ↩
18. part of the Memphis metropolitan area ↩
19. part of the Louisville metropolitan area ↩
20. Michigan City - named by New Yorker settlers after Aaron Burr ↩
21. Minneapolis ↩
22. part of Greater St. Paul ↩
23. part of the Boston metro area ↩
24. part of Greater Cincinnati ↩
25. part of the Greater Miami Area ↩
26. Kansas City, Kansas ↩
27. part of the Independence metro area ↩
28. Huntsville - former name, named after birthplace of Alexander Pope ↩
29. Duluth, Minnesota ↩
30. part of the Philadelphia metro area ↩
31. part of the Fernandina metro area ↩
32. Sioux City - named after Thomas Wilson Dorr ↩
33. Meridian, Mississippi ↩
34. Southaven ↩
35. Tampa ↩
36. Ann Arbor - named after Irish nationalist hero Lord Edward Fitzgerald ↩
37. part of the Pittsburgh metro area ↩
38. Jefferson, Missouri ↩
39. New Buffalo ↩
40. part of the Ballyburr metro area ↩
41. parts of Jasper & Beaufort County ↩
42. part of the Savannah metro area ↩
43. Grand Forks ↩
44. Portage ↩
45. Wetonka, South Dakota ↩

Regions of the United States

New England

New York

-almost sui generis due to huge population

Middle Atlantic

Lower South

Gulf Coast

Silver Coast

-from New Orleans to Holy Ghost (non-inclusive)
-center of film industry
-aka "American Riviera"

Middle West

The Middle West is, in many ways, the beating heart of the United States. It may be divided into two sections - the Northern Middle West, and the Southern Middle West - on lines rooted in the old sectional slave-free divide, which have residual demographic and urban implications. Within the Northern Middle West is Alleghania, Ohio Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsan, Juniper, and Ontonagon, and sometimes Pembina, Minasota, and Nibrasca; and within the Southern Middle West is Kentucky, Franklin, Illinois, Missouri, and sometimes Arkansaw, Franklin, and Tennessee. 

Ohio would be settled soon after the American Revolution, and in particular the region of the Western Reserve became an antislavery hotspot. Kentucky, and Alleghania too would be settled in short succession. Settlement slowly expanded - from the North, through New York and the Erie Canal, and from the South, through and over the Ohio River. Most of what was then simply the West became more northern than southern thanks to the Erie Canal, but Illinois got secured for slavery in 1818 thanks to southern settlement, after the Illinois Compromise that resolved a pretty drastic political crisis. Following the Louisiana War (1824-7), the entire Louisiana Territory got secured into American control, and various Native American groups got cleansed across the Mississippi, into a North-West Indian Territory (today Minasota). The Missouri region, already slaveowning, became subjected to southern settlement. When it sought statehood in 1836, it caused a political crisis over its slaveowning constitution, which threatened to expand the institution further westwards. This crisis only came to an end with the Missouri Compromise of 1837, which paired admission along with an explicit ban on the institution north and west of the state, a fugitive slave act, a ban on further slave importation into Missouri, and Indian removal. In practice, Missouri swiftly legalized slave importation, and northern juries nullified the Fugitive Slave Act; this was accepted swiftly as the Webster Proviso to the Missouri Compromise. Fugitive slaves, freed by jury nullification, made up free Colored communities in cities such as Millewackie and St. Paul.

Further expansion westwards only came under Daniel Webster; after he successfully forced South Carolina to back off during the Second Nullification Crisis, he successfully was able to pass acts making the territories of Juniper and Pembina, the latter for a section of a northern transcontinental railroad. The great divide between the northern and southern parts of the Middle West slowly increased into a chasm; though the Missouri River trade was highly important, the fugitive slave issue and jury nullification made it truly national. Settlers moving westwards radicalized the population of the area; Ohio and Indiana  became increasingly Northern and urban, while with the Panic of 1842, slavery expanded along the Missouri River and made Missouri state very, very slaveowning. St. Louis, already the great city of the Middle West, saw its position strengthened by the transcontinental railroad having its eastern terminus there. However, the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad also required opening the west to settlement, and Nibrasca (then including what is today Kansas and adjacent parts of the Interior) was organized as a territory in 1857. The resulting Bleeding Nibrasca saw slaveowners attempt to secure the west for slavery, and they did achieve the division of Kances from Nibrasca as a de facto slave territory. This directly sparked broad-scale sectional tensions, and ultimately civil war.

With the Liberty and Union War (1868-76), the Middle West got broadly divided on these slaveowning lines, with a few exceptions. The importance of the Ohio River economy meant that southern Ohio saw a sizeable pro-Richmondite rebellion, and in particular Indiana saw rivalling state governments - its Chief Justice Abraham Lincoln being an ardent Constitutionalist was decisive in keeping it from going Richmondite. For some time, it was only the town of Chicago that connected Wisconsan and the rest of the West with Indiana and the rest of the East, and this position gave Chicago a boom which gave it the nickname "Keystone City". But in the end, the Southern Middle West was taken.

Following the end of the War, a large section of Southerners chose to move to Buenaventura (particularly Texas), both because the economy was in tatters and many did not wish to take an oath of allegiance. This opened a frontier of sorts, and the Southern Homestead Act recognized this, both distributing land to freedmen and northern settlers. Missouri, with its large freedman population, had less land available for northern settlement, which directed northern settlers to the city - St. Louis, still a city of railheads, quickly bounced back and used the opportunity to modernize and strengthen its position as the United States' second city. But Kentucky and particularly Illinois became fairly rural, and despite the urbanization of the last few decades this remains the case today. In contrast, Ohio and Indiana became booming, dense, and urban parts of the nation, and urbanization increased in the remainder of the Northern Middle West, as cities like St. Paul, Millewackie, and Chicago made their place on the map as industrial and commercial hubs in their own right.

As the twentieth century proceeded, the Middle West secured further its position as the center of gravity of the American nation. Immigrants, particularly Germans and Brits, arrived in huge numbers, and along with the northern coast the Middle West is today a center of German-American culture. With industry came new investment in education and other institutions - in particular the hydraulic analyzer boom of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries turned the Middle West into a center of analyzer science.

Today, industry is by no means dead - but anxiety over its decline has led to strong Free Democratic support at the expense of the Free Trade Party, and the tech boom and the inauguration of the Age of Silicon has seen a dramatic shift in its economy. Its large German-American population makes itself known in its large turner halls, and German remains a common language; in addition, the decline of the farming economy has seen the Southern Middle West urbanize, as well as a migration of southerners, including Colored-Americans, northward. Despite everything, the Middle West remains the heart of the American nation.

Southwest

-Cimarron, Kances,
-large swathes of oil production

The Southwest, also known as Oil Country, spans Orleans, Arkansaw, Cimarron, Kances, and occasionally Missouri. This area is well-known for its oil production, and it is in large part this that its economy runs.

The region is entirely land conquered during the Louisiana War (1825-8), although immediately following the conquest the only area settled by whites was Orleans and to a much lesser extent Arkansaw. Orleans in particular had (and has) a strong Francophone culture and, at the time, it even had a notable Spanish-speaking culture, and its main city of New Orleans looked more to the Caribbean than it did mainland North America. Orleans boomed in the years following annexation, the Mississippi becoming the main artery of the nation, and it became a highly distinct part of the South due to its distinct non-Anglo roots - in other words, the Southwest, and the city of New Orleans quickly became a center of the trans-Caribbean slave trade from the US to Cuba and Brazil. With the Panic of 1842 and the interruption of the trans-Caribbean slave trade with the Granadine War of Independence (1848-52), the price of slaves collapsed, and this allowed for the rapid expansion of slavery into Arkansaw; with many slaveowners being worried about high slave densities allowing for a revolt, this increased pressure to expand slavery beyond the Missouri Compromise line.

Interior

-see Interior

Olympia

Olympia is sui generis in that it is the United States' only exclave, and it exists to give the United States access to the Pacific. Almost all of the state's population lives in the city of Port Townsend, only second to San Francisco in being a great city of the West Coast, with a very small population in its hinterland. In practice its economy is heavily tied to neighboring Columbia - and indeed, Port Townsend is only a short ferry ride to that other great Pacific city, St. Genevieve. This has given it a very different political culture to the rest of the United States, more similar to Columbia and Pacific Buenaventura. Despite it, its fortunes are heavily tied to the US - Port Townsend became great because it was the western terminus of the transcontinental railroad, and the rise of the auto and the planophore have, though both weakened the stature of the railroad, not dislodged the city's position nor its ties to the Eastern 42.