Let’s see, unlikely future hypothetical… Let’s try IMHO.
I’m postulating a near-future breakaway of Dixie from the USA, under a name like The Christian Republic of Dixie. (Yes, I know some people would insist on using the Confederate States of America name and battle flag. Still.)
Where are its borders? What sparks the split? What happens next? Do you move?
Are state boundaries immutable? In other words, though most of Florida obviously doesn’t join, does the panhandle?
And why Dixie specifically? Doesn’t the Midwest have a really strong Christian streak? Perhaps New Lousiana (the old Louisiana Purchase plus some of the Deep South) would make more sense, and get away from some of the Civil War / Racism issues.
I agree with Dr. Drake. Why stop at Dixie?
I would include WV, the southwest part of VA, NC, SC, GA, the FL panhandle, AL, MS, TN, KY, AR, LA, east TX, IN, OH, MO, KS, OK and part of CO. There are other areas that I might have forgotten, but there’s a lot of common evangelical Christian culture in those areas.
Should the Christian States of America secede, I would definitely move, likely somewhere warm and sane. 
Although I don’t dislike living in Tennessee for the most part, if our lawmakers didn’t have to account to USA federal laws and regulations and the minority non-Christian / liberals, they would become reallllly batshit insane.
A long time ago, a book called The People’s Almanac had a proposed set of new states that pretty much ignored our current state boundaries. One of the proposed states was ‘New South’.
I wish I could find a map of this.
That might match the OP’s request.
I vote for something like this:
After re-thinking, here are the borders I envision:
E-Atlantic Ocean
N-Canadian border, Ohio River
W-Rocky Mountains
S-Rio Grande, Gulf of Mexico
Criminy!
That is the vast majority of the lower 48!
The Canadian border doesn’t come until you cross the Mississippi River. :smack: That leaves the Rust Belt, Mid-Atlantic. and New England. BTW, The Pacific Time Zone stays as well.
What I find interesting is that Jesusland is able to be Jesusland because a lot of its kids head for more liberal climes when they grow up, and liberals hear of the bad reputation of the place and don’t want to move there.
Would national borders slow passage out and encourage a larger home-grown liberal community?
The OP would be plausible if the South were populated by the imaginary Bible-thumping ignorant fundamentalist theocrats who so often appear as secondary characters in SDMB threads. It’s not plausible at all considering the people who actually live in the South.
So, Dixieland gets ~60% of the land?
Don’t forget the independent Black republic to be carved out of Mississippi. Has everyone forgotten that was part of the deal?
I don’t buy your idea that they are being unfairly characterized, at least not very much; the way the South behaves, the laws it passes, the people it sends into politics, everything I hear indicates that “full of fundie theocrats & racists” is closer to reality. Sure, there are decent Southerners; but how many? Not enough to matter, apparently. As far as I can tell, the majority of the population of the South would turn America into a white, Christian version of Saudi Arabia if they could; probably with the slavery of blacks re-instituted. In fact, they are more defined by that attitude than by geography.
Or they’d just be executed for heresy, like theocracies tend to do.
Of course you’re going a bit too far, but you’re not far off. After living in Houston after having lived in Oregon my entire life, I definitely see that there is a lot more religious conservative theocratic beliefs than there is on the coast.
The average conservative coworker I had was extremely conservative indeed. They hate obama. They don’t believe he was born in the united states. They compared him to hitler. These were school teachers, btw, people who I would consider working friends. Not terrible people, honestly, and most were damn good teachers. But boy, their political beliefs were just insane. And the liberal teachers I worked with never said a peep.
And all the Native American sovereign nations, for a given definition of ‘sovereign’.
As long as we get to nuke Jesusland out of existance the second it comes into being, I’m all for the idea. Get all of them in one place so we don’t waste megatonnage.
And you’ll do it from orbit, right?
I live in Alabama and christian fundamentalist and racists are by far the majority. Many people refer to Pres. Obama simply as a n-----.
That’s one reason why the African-American republic is to be carved out of Mississippi: because its original tribe the Natchez are gone. Beaten up by the French in the early 18th century and the remnants absorbed into other tribes like the Chickasaw and Cherokee, or sold into slavery in the West Indies where they died.
If Virginia is going to be a part of this, I’ll gladly leave. But I sure hope the Dixians are willing to export their delicious foods and beverages. I ain’t about to drink bitter tea just to make a political statement.
