Thanks for posting it Jane Long.
No. Should be West Coast Including HI and AK), West (or Mountains), Midwest, Plains, South, Northeast.
Contiguosity - word of the week.
Why would restructured successors to the USA have to be composed of adjoining states?
DC goes to the south?
States must be re-defined. We need 58 states not 50. California divided East and West, New York, Cut out Long Island and NY City into a state, Nevada, North and South etc... New England—a nation, Pacifica, CA, Or, Wa a Nation.
Deseret embracing the west around Utah a nation and Dixie a Nation, Cut Texas in two and Florida as well. New Mexico as well. Historic lines work best. What about seizing Canada? or maybe Baja? Maybe we could sell Porto Rico?