Window on Eurasia: Moscow Paper Outlines How U.S. Could Disintegrate. The Divided States of America. According to Drudge Report a Russian analyst/professor is predicting the demise of America brought on by the financial collapse of American institutions.
One claim Professor Igor Panarin makes is that America will be divided into separate regions primarily based on multi-cultural differences: He predicted that the U.S. will break up into six parts – the Pacific coast, with its growing Chinese population; the South, with its Hispanics; Texas, where independence movements are on the rise; the Atlantic coast, with its distinct and separate mentality; five of the poorer central states with their large Native American populations; and the northern states, where the influence from Canada is strong.He even suggested that “we could claim Alaska – it was only granted on lease, after all.”
Bloomberg is reporting the following: A professor at the diplomatic academy of Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the U.S. will break into six parts because of the nation’s financial crisis. American Nations: The Official Homepage at colinwoodard.com. The Real U.S. Map, a Country of Regions (Part 5): Colin Woodard. Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) - In “American Nations,” I’ve sought to show how our Balkanized past has informed our divided present, in the hopes of fostering a better understanding of the American identity and predicament.
But inevitably people ask what this means for the future. The short answer is, of course, that nobody knows. But given the challenges facing the U.S., Mexico and, to a lesser extent, Canada, it seems unwise to simply assume that North America’s political boundaries will remain as they are today. The Real U.S. Map, a Country of Regions (Part 4): Colin Woodard. In 2100, will the political map of North America look the same as it does today?
Will the continent still be divided into three enormous federations (the U.S., Mexico, Canada)? Or will it have morphed into something else? A Balkanized set of nation-states along the lines of 20th-century Europe? A loose E.U. The Real U.S. Map, a Country of Regions (Part 3): Colin Woodard. When it comes to government and politics, Americans often think of the 50 states as perhaps the most important signifiers of their identities and allegiances.
But, despite the ties that Californians, New Yorkers, Mainers and others hold with the states where they live, work and vote, their regional identities -- as Deep Southerners, Yankees, Far Westerners and so on -- often reveal more about who they are, and sometimes trump any shared sense of U.S. statehood. As I’ve argued in Parts 1 and 2 of this series, the U.S. can be most productively understood and analyzed as a collection of 11 nations, spilling over borders with Canada and Mexico, rather than as 50 states. From the beginning of their existence, the 11 nations have been struggling with one another for advantage and influence, with the biggest prize being control of the federal government. American Alliances. The Real U.S. Map, a Country of Regions (Part 2): Colin Woodard.
Yesterday, I posited that the U.S. is really divided among nations, and I point out that the country isn’t really a nation-state.
I don’t mean that derisively: it’s just a fact. The Real U.S. Map, a Country of Regions (Part 1): Colin Woodard. In 2008, with the U.S. divided between red states and blue states, then-candidate Barack Obama called for unity over division, a common shout-out among politicians and others determined to preserve America’s under-siege, allegedly shared values.
Yet such calls ignore the fact that there are no shared “American values.” We’ve always been divided. And not truly along state lines. Pravda's Prediction of a Broken Up United States. Early this year, a KGB spy turned academic named Igor Panarin received fifteen minutes of fame for declaring that the United States would break up into smaller countries in 2010.
Unfortunately for Dr. Panarin, it is clear he did not take into account geography when dividing the United States. Having Kentucky align with the European Union, Utah with California and the People's Republic of China, and Georgia with Mexico makes no sense. At first I thought Panarin wanted revenge for the Ralph Peters maps but later interviews have revealed he is just a bad geographer. Now the former Soviet Union propaganda newspaper of Pravda has taken a swing at dividing North America. Pravda's has divided North America into several states: The Thirty-Eight States. The map reducing the U.S. to 38 States is the creation of C.
Etzel Pearcy, geography professor at California State University, Los Angeles. The new boundaries totally erase the 104 lines currently separating the 50 States. United States Regions Map. Divided regions. Divided regions are transnational regions, islands, etc., (i.e. areas that are known under a common name) that may have at one time been a united sovereign state but are or have been subsequently politically divided by national borders, into separate sovereign and/or administrative divisions.
The later qualification includes many reorganized regions within nation states blurring the pure "transnational" distinction, but retaining the sense of a historic region once governed together which is significant both historically and culturally. Typically the divided parts still retain the common geographical placename, or a variation thereof, and may or may not be subject to irrendentist claims and territorial disputes. They are by their very nature situated in border areas. Ecoregion. A map location of the Amazon Rainforest ecoregions.
The yellow line encloses the ecoregions per the World Wide Fund for Nature. A map of North America's Bioregions Definition and categorization[edit] Lists of ecoregions. List of ecoregions in North America (CEC) The Commission was established in 1994 by the member states of Canada, Mexico, and the United States to address regional environmental concerns under the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), the environmental side accord to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The Commission's 1997 report, Ecological Regions of North America, provides a framework that may be used by government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and academic researchers as a basis for risk analysis, resource management, and environmental study of the continent's ecosystems.[1] Ecoregions may be identified by similarities in geology, physiography, vegetation, climate soils, land use, wildlife distributions, and hydrology.
The classification system has four levels. Only the first three levels are shown on this list. Level I divides North America into 15 broad ecoregions. Level II subdivides the continent into 52 smaller ecoregions. List of ecoregions in Afghanistan. List of ecoregions in Afghanistan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search The following is a list of ecoregions in Afghanistan, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF): Contents.
Bioregionalism. Bioregionalism is a political, cultural, and ecological system or set of views based on naturally defined areas called bioregions, similar to ecoregions. Bioregions are defined through physical and environmental features, including watershed boundaries and soil and terrain characteristics. Bioregionalism stresses that the determination of a bioregion is also a cultural phenomenon, and emphasizes local populations, knowledge, and solutions.[1] Overview[edit] Laurentia. Laurentia (North American Craton) is a large continental craton, which forms the ancient geological core of the North American continent. Many times in its past, Laurentia has been a separate continent as it is now in the form of North America, although originally it also included the cratonic areas of Greenland and also the northwestern part of Scotland, known as the Hebridean Terrane.
During other times in its past, Laurentia has been part of larger continents and supercontinents and itself consists of many smaller terranes assembled on a network of Early Proterozoic orogenic belts. Small microcontinents and oceanic islands collided with and sutured onto the ever-growing Laurentia, and together formed the stable Precambrian craton we see today.[1] The craton is named after the Laurentian Shield, which in turn is named after the Laurentian Mountains. Interior platform[edit] Laurentia (bioregion) Laurentia is a bioregion atop the Laurentian craton in the northeastern United States and eastern Canada, and centering on the Great Lakes. [1] The bioregion spans the Eastern Woodlands of North America from the easternmost part of the Great Plains to the Atlantic Coast of the Northeastern United States and Canadian Maritimes.
From north to south, it spans from the edge of the boreal forest in Canada, generally up to approximately the 50th parallel give or take a couple degrees of latitude and south to approximately the Ohio River, Potomac River and Ozarks. [2] The largest ecoregion within Laurentia is called the Laurentian Mixed Forest Province. [3] [4] Along with the bioregional similarities throughout the region, and the water cycle of the Great Lakes and regional namesake Saint Lawrence River, there are also strong cultural and economic connections in Laurentia.
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