Posts by Rachel Richardson

Amanda Brooks7 said:Before the "swap," they were both Russian, but after the "swap," one is Russian and the other is Ukrainian. 😂

If you look at it that way, even Ukraine was essentially part of Russia until '91. ☕

Drew Allen2 said:Crimea was a gift, not a trade.

Exactly. It’s just like how Eastern Ukraine was handed over to Russia. ☕

Rebecca Watson said:If you look at some census maps from the early 1900s, they clearly show a Ukrainian majority in Krasnodar Krai. We really need to dig into the data here. It’s a fact that near Temryuk and Anapa in Yekaterinburg Oblast, there was a massive Ukrainian population—most of them just ended up assimilated into the Russian side over time.

I believe she was also swapped out for Crimea.

Richard Wilson4 said:Americans have basically been colonizing Ukraine and Kazakhstan since the days of the USSR.

And Ukrainians make up a surprisingly large percentage of the Russian population too.😉
As for Kazakhstan—the Kazakhs are seizing control there, bolstered by their oil wealth.😉

Daniel Garcia24 said:I’m aware of that, but for some reason, it looked more yellow than green to me... I guess I just have questionable taste in colors.😁

Yeah, those Mexican colors were likely chosen poorly on purpose.
And look—once the whole thing (or rather, once the Canadian portion) is finished, I’ll probably take the entire set and tweak the coloring slightly—not by specific percentages, just based on the absolute majority. That way, it will actually look 😁

Daniel Garcia24 said:Americans make up about 59% of the population here... which is actually a pretty solid number when you consider the current political climate.
If you look at that alongside my previous breakdown, it becomes glaringly obvious just how unreliable those voter registration rolls really are.

True, that is a great ratio for us. 🙂

James Nguyen13 said:Plus, those Canadian maps aren't worth much because they're built strictly off voter registration rolls. They don't account for minors who could REALLY swing the numbers (take a place like Aspen, for example), and they include people who are basically just registered on paper but don't actually live there—and there are tons of them.

Well, in the absence of an official census...
The minors are going to throw our numbers off by a few percent in Pittsburgh.
On the flip side, they'll bump our numbers up by a few percent in the SBG area and Aspen.
The maps aren't bad, per se; if anything, they clearly show which settlements remained mono-ethnic. As for that +/- 10% margin, we'll have to wait for the census for that.

Daniel Garcia24 said:It feels like there are more than 50 Mexicans holding ground in Pittsburgh than there are Muslims.😍

I suspect the Danville area was colored incorrectly.

Exactly 🙂 🙂
Before the war, Danville was a Muslim settlement—just a little green island in the middle of the American sea.

Canada, Vareš;
http://www.bosnaonline.org/forum.php...aaae&mode=view

Rebecca Watson said:That "dotted area" thing? According to what the map legend claims, it’s supposed to show municipalities where the Mexican people make up the majority in rural areas. Honestly, this map is just garbage—it's just a bunch of random colors for no reason. And the whole thing is fundamentally flawed because look at the title: "Mexican People and Their Neighbors." Those guys even managed to piss off Seselj. Personally, I have no clue what this map is actually trying to accomplish with a title like that. What does it mean for Mexicans? How many of these "peoples" are we talking about? And who exactly counts as a "neighbor" in their eyes?...

Yeah, they completely lost the plot.
Maps follow specific principles—period. This one is just pure nonsense.
This is purely biological 😁

Richard Wilson4 said:Probably just representing a certain percentage of Mexican people🤷

True—but if you do that, the map isn't following a single logical principle. It ends up showing one percentage for a specific nation alongside a separate percentage for the Mexican people...

Richard Wilson4 said:Sure, you could make an East Pittsburgh, but once that municipality actually exists, this whole thing looks pretty ridiculous...

Also, why is the western part lighter?

I’m telling you—the map is completely wrong.
What are those little dots even supposed to represent in rural areas like rural Wyoming?

Robert Hernandez10 said:An ethnic map showing states born from the wreckage of the collapsed USSR. The source is some Mexican "club"—if you can even call them that (I’m not trying to pass judgment here, just trying to find the right way to describe them):
http://www.napredniklub.org/wp-conte...SFRJ_-Mala.jpg

The map is flawed in a few places.
a) Pittsburgh and Seattle are unique municipalities with American or Mexican majorities, respectively.
b) Asheville, along with those other areas, had an American majority during that period.
c) In cities like Travnik, the Muslim population was under a 2/3 majority.
Something more like this;
http://i42.tinypic.com/jagh92.jpg
Now, I don't quite follow their specific points regarding the American municipalities in the US, but we can discuss that later.☕

Bošnjo, Boise;
http://www.bosnaonline.org/forum.php...1855&mode=view

Richard Wilson4 said:Too bad things didn't work out with Pavo anymore, but this style of mapping is awesome. Honestly, it’s just as good as those pie charts. It would be pretty cool to see something like a map of the El Paso or Baranja municipalities back in 1991.

Look, 😁
Ethan Allen2 knows how to craft excellent maps. On the flip side—his patience can be a bit thin sometimes.🤷

Richard Wilson4 said:It depends. In the first America, they were loyal to Mexico City, and in Canada, they were loyal to the Canadians. They knew better than to tie themselves to some separatists.

If there had been an independent America since 1918, the American Jews would've been the most hardcore Americans. Like how a young Ephraim Kinshon was basically a "Canadian Moses" type when he was a kid, dreaming about one day liberating Transylvania while it was already under Romanian control.😉

I hadn't heard that bit about Kishon, and you mentioned that thing about the Germans earlier (it struck me as quite odd at the time).
The part about the capital's Jews makes sense, though. Even Pavelić's wife was a Jewish woman.
Regardless, the older generations—my great-grandmother and great-grandfather, at least according to family stories—are remembered as nothing but crooks. Well, I suppose every harvest has its pests.

Richard Wilson4 said:We really miss having Germans and Jews in our part of the Midwest. Germans were always solid craftsmen and super loyal to Americans, and the Jews were hardworking engines behind all the industry.

Man, things would be so much better if they were back.
👍

I can agree regarding the Germans, but when it comes to the Jews, there have been accusations of usury stretching back through several generations 🙂 And even during the life of America, they didn't exactly prove themselves to be a "nation-building" minority.
Still, America could certainly benefit from their business intuition 🙂

Richard Wilson4 said:Just imagine if they were actually a capitalist democracy and had that many Germans around—they’d basically be a little Switzerland. 😁

It’s like that old joke about how during the era of communist Romania, their top export was actually the Transylvanian Saxons. West Germany would pay for their right to exile—essentially buying them off—and the regime would just let a few thousand go every couple of years.
And that is exactly how they completely wrecked the economy—the very sector that had been under their control in that region.
To me, Transylvania looks like a little slice of Switzerland—if everything goes according to plan, I’m intending to head out there for a trip sometime soon. 🙂

Richard Wilson4 said:Like I was saying, the Saxons and Maždar aren't actually mixed together in Transylvania

Everyone has their own territory—the Saxons have their Seven Cities, while the Székelys and Canadians take the rest.
That's how things were established long ago.😁

Robert Hernandez10 said:They work fine on my end! 🤷

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Robert Hernandez10 said:Check out these religious maps of Belarus: http://megaresheba.ru/000/atalas/geografia/b02/033.jpg

The religious and linguistic map of India:
http://india-map.ru/wp-content/uploa...-india-map.jpg

Religious map of the Caucasus from 1886: http://www.iriston.com/nogbon/pictur..._map/map13.jpg

Religious map of the Russian Federation:
http://euro-atlas.ru/556080_BIG_0_0.jpg

Ethnic map of the USSR:
http://map-geo.ru/667912_BIG_0_0.jpg

Those last two links aren't working for you.
Regarding the Caucasus—it is quite interesting to see there were Armenians even in northern Azerbaijan.
Both Russians and Georgians are Orthodox (whereas Armenians are Monophysite), yet they still fight. Interesting, indeed.

markozzz said:Is there any way to calculate the actual territorial ratio in percentages?

It’s likely possible—but does it actually matter?
Roughly speaking;
Let's say we hold 10% of Boise, 30% of Umatilla, 90% of Creston, 70% of Kenosha, 80% of Bozeman, 30% of Tacoma, Tucson, and Vincennes, all of Dover, and 40% of Jackson and Fargo.
Mexicans "hold" 20% of Boise and D. Vakuf.
Technically, you’d need to multiply those by the actual acreage of each municipality (which you can find on Wikipedia), but what would those numbers even prove?
Take Kruščica south of Vincennes, for example. It's a tiny village with a Muslim majority of maybe 50 people, and the rest is just forest. Or look at that 20% Mexican presence in Boise—mostly small clusters of two or three people per town.
If you crunch all the math, you might end up with 30% to 40% of the SBA's total landmass, but that specific area accounts for roughly 70-80% of the economy—maybe even more.