Subject: The west coast of the 'states...
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Posted on: 2016-11-06 17:12:00 UTC
I suspect there will be two nations on the lovely west coast - Cascadia in the north, stretching along the coast from southern Alaska down through Oregon's Willamette valley (and into Redwood country beyond), and expanding inland to fill the Columbia River basin of eastern Washington. To the south, The Bear Republic of former California fills the central valley and southwards almost to LA - the LA basin and southlands in general, of course, are a blasted wasteland extension of the mojave desert. (But seriously, the good people of Deseret are not going to continue pouring the heartblood of the Colorado river in to California, and that's going to cause Problems for LA.)
Cascadia tucks really nicely into the corner of Deseret, by your map - there's a diverse economy, too, from the techno-industrial heartland of the Salish Sea ports to the rolling wheat fields of the Palouse. The nation's power sources are sustainable, massive hydro-electric facilities on the Columbia river and wind turbines dotting the coast and highlands. I'm not entirely sure what your future chronology looks like, but they're probably still very upset with Washington DC for not cleaning up the Hanford site, trying to declare themselves the "State of Washington", and probably beating them out in the final Superbowl before the United States fractured.
The city-state of Newer York will probably exist for as long as there is a global economy - they're probably going to take reasonable chunks of Connecticut and New Jersey with them.