Colin S Woodard, Columnist

The Real U.S. Map, a Country of Regions (Part 4): Colin Woodard

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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.-style confederation stretching from Monterrey, Mexico, to the Canadian Arctic? A unitary state run according to biblical law as interpreted by the spiritual heirs of Jerry Falwell? A postmodern utopian network of semi-sovereign self-contained agricultural villages freed by technological innovations from the need to maintain larger governments at all?