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* The loud, proud, rather jingoist [[Everything Is Big in Texas|Republic of Texas]]. Alternately, a Hispanic-majority República de Tejas depending on whether the author [[Creator Provincialism|is Hispanic]].
* The South has risen again to form the [[Deep South|resurrected Confederate States]]. Possibly, there is a black Republic of new Afrika over some of the Southern States. At peace or war with the Confeds.
* The Southwest reclaimed by the [[Injun Country|Reformed Tribal Territories]], and possibly [[Mexico Called. They Want Texas Back.|at war with Mexico]]. Alternately, Mexico could fuse with it and call the new country [[wikipedia:Reconquista (Mexico)|Aztlan]].
* [[The Other Rainforest|Oregon, Washington, northern California, and sometimes British Columbia]] form Cascadia, which is much more left-wing than the former US and built upon [[Green Aesop|environmentalist]] principles.
* The [[Hollywood New England|New England]] states are also off on their own, something that both New Englanders and non-New Englanders find very appealing. Sometimes, New England is combined with the Mid-Atlantic to form a Northeast country or it joins Canada.
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* In Aaron McGruder and Reginald Hudlin's ''Birth of a Nation'', after election fraud causes a George Bush look-alike to be elected president, the city of East St. Louis declares its independence from the United States to become Black Land. Very [[Anvilicious]].
* In Kurt Busiek's [[Alternate History]] comic ''[[Arrowsmith]]'' what would be the USA and Canada in our reality is (as of 1914) divided into the United States of Columbia, Acadia-Canada, Tejas, Deseret, California, Dakota, Newfoundland (Northern Canada and Alaska) and Grand Florida.
* Played straight in the [[Superman]] story ''[[Superman: Red Son|Red Son]]''. The USA experiences a second civil war, with 16 "prodigal states" (including Georgia) successfully seceding. {{spoiler|America gets better, but it takes [[President Evil|President Lex Luthor]] to do so.}}
* In the [[Wolverine|Old Man Logan]] story arc, the villains took over the US and it gotten broken up in several pieces with the US being the original thirteen colonies.
* In the "Captain Confederacy" mini-series, the U.S. has balkanized into several different independent nations. One is trying to reunite them, by any means possible.
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* ''[[The Second Civil War]]'' depicts the break-up of the USA, starting with the secession of Idaho and snowballing from there.
* In the ''[[Wild Wild West (film)|Wild Wild West]]'' film, Loveless proposes to do this to the burgeoning United States, though they aren't their own governments, but someone else's. This has roots in the original series in which Dr. Loveless believed that California was rightfully his due to a Spanish land grant to his family before the Mexican Revolution.
{{quote|'''Loveless''': Great Britain gets back the thirteen original colonies, minus Manhattan. Florida and the Fountain of Youth go back to Spain. [[Mexico Called. They Want Texas Back.|Texas, New Mexico, California, Arizona revolve a México]]. ''(points to most of the northwest, labeled "[[Egopolis|Loveless Land]]")'' And a little piece for me to retire on.}}
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* Robert Ferrigno's ''Prayers for the Assassin'' trilogy takes place in a future where the United States is split into four pieces following the nuking of New York and D.C., with the northern states becoming an Islamic Republic and the southern states becoming "The Bible Belt", with Utah as Mormon territory and Nevada as a free state/American Amsterdam. The inside cover has [http://www.republicworldnews.com/images/prayers_finalmap_smaller.JPG a handy map].
* In Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka's novel ''Warday'', following a (relatively) limited nuclear exchange with the USSR, Washington DC has been destroyed and the US is slowly splintering into a collection of Balkanized nations, with California aggressively leading the pack.
* The setting for the [[Robert A. Heinlein]] novel ''[[Friday (novel)|Friday]]'' balkanized the States in just this fashion, with Vicksburg being a center of a laissez-faire economy where the nation of Texas, for example, could go to hire mercenaries for use in battles along the Mississippi River. Meanwhile out on the west coast there is the California Confederacy, headed by a "Chief Confederate". There is also a Chicago Imperium which, despite the name, controls the entire Upper Midwest. (Heinlein has it ruled by a "Chairman", thus averting an Anvilicious [[Take That]] to the Daley political machine in Chicago.) Another Heinlein setting ("[["If This Goes
* In ''[[His Dark Materials]]'', Lee Scoresby is from the country of Texas. [[All There in the Manual|Supplemental material]] reveals that this world doesn't even have a United States; that area is instead taken up by New France and New Denmark.
* Kurt Vonnegut's ''[[Slaughterhouse-Five]]'' shows Billy Pilgrim wandering into the future, where the US has been balkanised for its own good. [[Arc Words|So it goes.]]
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* In the [[Backstory]] for [[Deus Ex]], parts of the United States declared their independence when the federal government ignored them due to half of California sinking in the ocean. The NSF at this time was the Northwestern Secession Forces. The U.S. got them back, but the war allowed Mexico to take back parts of the Southwest when they aligned with Russia. In some sense, the US still is in a Civil War, with many of its citizens in open revolt by being part of the NSF. At any rate, some dialogue said by JC hints that the United States may be due for a third round of all-out war.
* ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution|Deus Ex Human Revolution]]'' seems to be setting up the said civil wars for ''Deus Ex''. Radio broadcasts and newspapers will mention secession sentiment in states that will soon be part of the Northwest War. A conversation overheard between NPCs in the Sarif Industries lobby after the Milwaukee Junction mission imply that this ''has already happened'', when one of them mentions the [[Noodle Incident|Texas Secession.]]
* In the strategy game ''[[Shattered Union]]'', the United States breaks into seven factions: the New England Alliance, the traditionalist Confederacy, the freedom-loving Republic of Texas, the Great Plains Federation, the environmentalist Pacifica, the California Commonwealth, and the [[
* The leader of the Believers faction in ''[[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]]'' is specified as coming from the "Christian States of America." She is identified in the background material as born in Athens, Georgia. It seems to be a mixture of Deep South and Christian Fundamentalists. These "Christian States" obviously do not reach far north, for the Pirates' leader, Ulrik Svensgaard, comes from Gloucester, MA, which is listed as being in the United States. And the background material actually gives Miriam's country of origin as the USA.<br /><br />The backstories of the game mention that nations were constantly rising and falling during the last days of Earth, meaning that the CSA, and the USA coexisted, or the USA became the CSA, or something wild. Bottom line, [[Crapsack World|Earth wasn't]] [[Just Before the End|in the best]] shape.
* ''Fracture'' has America's East Coast joining with Europe to form the cybernetics-using Atlantic Alliance, while the West Coast joins with Asia in the genetics-focused Republic of Pacifica.
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