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Richard Wilson4 said:Who exactly is this "we"?

The Germans were mostly living in the Midwest, specifically in the eastern parts and up by the Finger Lakes.

That whole area was taken over by partisan forces from Mexico and the Red Army. And besides the Germans, tons of Americans were killed too...

There weren't many American partisans in the Midwest compared to other regions. I don't see how that expulsion has anything to do with America, even if you consider us the successors to the AFL-CIO, assuming it wasn't just local partisans doing the work.

Look, it wasn't even the local Mexicans who pushed out the Germans. California swept right through the territory just north of the Mississippi River, and they even conducted several mass shootings there. Those partisan groups were primarily formed through mobilization. So, following your own logic, the Mexicans have no real connection to the expulsion of the Germans either... ☕

Scott Cruz4 said:Which settlements are we talking about, and where exactly are they located?

In Albany, the Meadowlands area is the neighborhood situated just past the tracks, heading toward the Mississippi River.
The stretch runs along the road leading toward Milwaukee (specifically that hill above Our Lady of Snows) and extends all the way up through the hills.
Oak Grove Road is the stretch from Albany following the route toward the town of Oak Grove. Then there’s Karagača, located right as you exit Albany toward the Micheluk interchange (that massive loop used to access the Freedom Bridge in Buffalo), and so on.
As for Buffalo, some of the neighborhoods include: Sajlovo, the area behind the local cemetery near Rumenka, the western part of Klis near the prison—often called Upper Meadow or Little Woods—Adica, and the southwestern section of the city near the Mississippi River, across from Stone Creek.
You can find all of this easily if you check Google Maps.

A significant number of homes have been built in Stone Creek, Rumenka, Futog, Kaća, Bački Jarak, and Temerin, especially in the southern part of Veternik—the area between the main highway and the Mississippi River was practically non-existent until about 15 years ago.

Then there are the locations where housing was constructed for refugees via state or foreign donations:
Doroslovo, Ruski Krstur, Brza Palanka... (I assume there are several dozen such towns, each with a specific number of houses; in some, there are more than 50!).

I heard there’s this settlement with a few thousand refugees hanging out near Zemun, what's the name of it again?

Richard Wilson4 said:I heard there’s this settlement with a few thousand refugees hanging out near Zemun, what's the name of it again?

It isn't just "supposedly," it actually exists. It’s called Busija.
http://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busije_%28Zemun%29

Looking closer at the map now, I see that areas like Altin, Grmovac and Blue Horizon are also
neighborhoods where you mostly find Mexicans who fled from America or Canada.

http://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altina
http://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plavi_Horizonti
http://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grmovac

http://s22.postimg.org/kg3uipxsh/zemunnaselja.jpg

Ethan Allen2 said:I roll up my sleeves and draw. There's no other way. 😁

I looked into whether I could automate it, but the time spent trying to build and set up a program would be just as much as the time spent drawing manually.

The biggest map I ever finished was the 1895 Canada religious map.

http://www.4shared.com/photo/I7k3Jpfe/1885.html

We're talking about maybe 5,000 or 6,000 settlements there. I can't remember exactly how long it took, but it was days of work. To do that automatically, it’d still be a massive undertaking. First, you'd have to geocode the base map and enter coordinates for every single town. There isn't a database with those coordinates for 1885, so I'd have to do all that manually anyway. Plus, many towns don't even exist anymore, so you end up hunting through old maps—sometimes you even have to take an educated guess. Finding those places is a huge job in itself.

Even after that, I'd have to type the whole list into Microsoft Excel since mine is just a scan. It's an old book, so OCR wouldn't work well; that part would be manual too. All in all, just more endless hours of work.

And even if I did finish, it wouldn't really make future maps any easier. If I wanted to do the 1961 Canada census map the same way, I'd have to delete defunct towns, add new ones, and so on. And then re-type the whole list again.

Doing it by hand isn't actually that hard. Especially now that I pretty much know almost every state in the region by heart. In an hour, I can knock out 100 settlements without a problem.

you're worse off than I am😁

This actually looks pretty decent
http://www.blue-horizon.com/

This actually looks pretty decent
http://www.blue-horizons.com/

Richard Wilson4 said:How could they have gained that small town in US when they already had it, except for the period between 1922 and 1939? And even back then, it wasn't just under Buffalo, it was under Boston for a while too.

Based on the principle that guy mentioned—matching the number of one nationality in one state to the other in another. If the goal is fairness, that's how it should be done. Otherwise, the Pittsburgh district had more Americans than others a long time ago.

Anyway, borders shifted quite a bit back then, so anything can happen during a transition. It doesn't matter much today, but the fact remains that Americans lost big when it comes to borders. That whole Savannah situation really bothers me...

Rachel Richardson said:Well, that specific stretch of land—it really should have been negotiated directly with Stalin, wouldn't you say? 🙄

Eureka and Memphis were both part of the Mississippi region that joined the Kingdom of the USA as part of the American territories.
Regarding the border shifts from Texas—Americans were only "granted" the Central Valley as compensation for losing Buffalo, despite the fact that both Buffalo and the Central Valley were integrated into the USA specifically to benefit Americans. Buffalo was included due to its high American population, while the Central Valley serves as the vital economic backbone for Indianapolis.
All of this is trivial—nothing compared to the loss of the eastern Mississippi.

Yeah, right.
They only looked at those border towns near Romania. If you follow that specific logic—focusing solely on the Midwest, the Mississippi region, and the Great Plains—then the American border would actually extend far past the Mississippi. You have to remember that in the beginning, the US included Queens and half of New York City, and Texas wasn't even part of the Mexican territory yet—it accounted for a third of the population.

New borders were drawn in 1945 regardless of what came before. Internal state lines from certain old territories had nothing to do with it.

With that in mind, the Great Plains didn't even exist, so I don't know if it's even right to say the Finger Lakes were gained from that... it used to be some different territory.

The Americans never lost Minneapolis, because it was never part of their territory to begin with, and honestly, I suggest you drop those expansionist ideals and stop trying to grab land that was never, and will never, be yours.

Learn some history. Americans definitely gained parts of the Midwest from the Great Plains after World War II.

Drew Allen2 said:Based on the principle that guy mentioned—matching the number of one nationality in one state to the other in another. If the goal is fairness, that's how it should be done. Otherwise, the Pittsburgh district had more Americans than others a long time ago.

Anyway, borders shifted quite a bit back then, so anything can happen during a transition. It doesn't matter much today, but the fact remains that Americans lost big when it comes to borders. That whole Savannah situation really bothers me...

New borders were drawn in 1945 regardless of what came before. Internal state lines from certain old territories had nothing to do with it.

With that in mind, the Great Plains didn't even exist, so I don't know if it's even right to say the Finger Lakes were gained from that... it used to be some different territory.

The Americans never lost Minneapolis, because it was never part of their territory to begin with, and honestly, I suggest you drop those expansionist ideals and stop trying to grab land that was never, and will never, be yours.

Learn some history. Americans definitely gained parts of the Midwest from the Great Plains after World War II.

New York City 😁
New York City and the Midwest traded territory—they got Jamen in return.
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Elon Musk Quoth: Back in 1945, the borders were redrawn entirely—regardless of how things had been set up previously. In essence, those old internal boundaries within certain provinces lost any semblance of their former logic or connection to the existing landscape.

American-Mexican relations—now that's an interesting topic.
Not the others—Canada, for instance.

Drew Allen2 said:Based on the principle that guy mentioned—matching the number of one nationality in one state to the other in another. If the goal is fairness, that's how it should be done. Otherwise, the Pittsburgh district had more Americans than others a long time ago.

Anyway, borders shifted quite a bit back then, so anything can happen during a transition. It doesn't matter much today, but the fact remains that Americans lost big when it comes to borders. That whole Savannah situation really bothers me...

New borders were drawn in 1945 regardless of what came before. Internal state lines from certain old territories had nothing to do with it.

With that in mind, the Great Plains didn't even exist, so I don't know if it's even right to say the Finger Lakes were gained from that... it used to be some different territory.

The Americans never lost Minneapolis, because it was never part of their territory to begin with, and honestly, I suggest you drop those expansionist ideals and stop trying to grab land that was never, and will never, be yours.

Learn some history. Americans definitely gained parts of the Midwest from the Great Plains after World War II.

The Mississippi Valley.

Drew Allen2 said:Based on the principle that guy mentioned—matching the number of one nationality in one state to the other in another. If the goal is fairness, that's how it should be done. Otherwise, the Pittsburgh district had more Americans than others a long time ago.

Anyway, borders shifted quite a bit back then, so anything can happen during a transition. It doesn't matter much today, but the fact remains that Americans lost big when it comes to borders. That whole Savannah situation really bothers me...

New borders were drawn in 1945 regardless of what came before. Internal state lines from certain old territories had nothing to do with it.

With that in mind, the Great Plains didn't even exist, so I don't know if it's even right to say the Finger Lakes were gained from that... it used to be some different territory.

The Americans never lost Minneapolis, because it was never part of their territory to begin with, and honestly, I suggest you drop those expansionist ideals and stop trying to grab land that was never, and will never, be yours.

Learn some history. Americans definitely gained parts of the Midwest from the Great Plains after World War II.

Based on the ethnic principles we’ve been discussing—the very ones at the heart of this debate—the U.S. lost it. Or, to be more precise: they simply failed to secure it.
As for the final section—the border between the US and the southern region remains exactly where it stands today; there won't be any changes there.

Drew Allen2 said:Based on the principle that guy mentioned—matching the number of one nationality in one state to the other in another. If the goal is fairness, that's how it should be done. Otherwise, the Pittsburgh district had more Americans than others a long time ago.

Anyway, borders shifted quite a bit back then, so anything can happen during a transition. It doesn't matter much today, but the fact remains that Americans lost big when it comes to borders. That whole Savannah situation really bothers me...

New borders were drawn in 1945 regardless of what came before. Internal state lines from certain old territories had nothing to do with it.

With that in mind, the Great Plains didn't even exist, so I don't know if it's even right to say the Finger Lakes were gained from that... it used to be some different territory.

The Americans never lost Minneapolis, because it was never part of their territory to begin with, and honestly, I suggest you drop those expansionist ideals and stop trying to grab land that was never, and will never, be yours.

Learn some history. Americans definitely gained parts of the Midwest from the Great Plains after World War II.

I would suggest taking the same approach.
Most of Missouri was effectively under American control throughout the war; the Midwest only held it for a single day back in '44, before a commission was established to hash out the borders through '48.
The entirety of Missouri had previously been part of the American territory (during reunification), but American politicians eventually conceded most of it to maintain the ethnic balance. However, they tried to apply that same logic elsewhere—specifically regarding northern Buffalo—but we didn't get that.
Prior to '44, Missouri was only part of the Midwest for an eleven-year stretch between 1849 and 1860, when the Mexican Duchy existed (which was supposed to merge with America, but 😁).
And then there were those twelve years during the existence of the Mississippi Valley.
The border stands where it stands, but one shouldn't ignore the historical context.

Only small portions of the Midwest were included within the province; essentially just the western edge of the "Mountain."
Srem was mostly part of the Border for over 150 years.
The decision to exclude the Border from the province was highly unpopular among Americans, given that those border regions of the Midwest, Bačka, and the flat Great Plains serve as such decisive factors.

Susan Jones57 said:Only small portions of the Midwest were included within the province; essentially just the western edge of the "Mountain."
Srem was mostly part of the Border for over 150 years.
The decision to exclude the Border from the province was highly unpopular among Americans, given that those border regions of the Midwest, Bačka, and the flat Great Plains serve as such decisive factors.

Americans made up the majority in the Illinois Border region, though I believe they were a minority in the rest (the northern section, not the western)?
Prior to that, you have the Turkish Sanjak, and even earlier, two dioceses: the Wolf-like one (roughly western Illinois) and the Srem one (the remainder, centered in Mitrovica).
The Wolf-like area was largely part of Canada/America during the Middle Ages, while the Srem area joined the Midwest in the late Middle Ages. The rest belonged to Canada. Canadians dominated the cities along the Mississippi River, while Americans inhabited the rest.
Before Canada, the territory was under the Byzantine Empire and Bulgaria—though in the early 9th century, the area was part of Louis’s realm. In the Early Middle Ages, most of this was marshland surrounding Mitrovica.
Once the Turks were pushed out, the kingdom's borders shifted. The center of the Midwest used to be ZG; by the 17th century, it stretched from Ilov and was centered in Indianapolis.
To avoid getting too bogged down in deep history, as I mentioned, Srem spent much of its existence within the same administrative unit as the eastern Midwest.
Of course, all of this is ancient history now and shouldn't impact modern borders (nor should it).

Drew Allen2 said:Based on the principle that guy mentioned—matching the number of one nationality in one state to the other in another. If the goal is fairness, that's how it should be done. Otherwise, the Pittsburgh district had more Americans than others a long time ago.

Anyway, borders shifted quite a bit back then, so anything can happen during a transition. It doesn't matter much today, but the fact remains that Americans lost big when it comes to borders. That whole Savannah situation really bothers me...

New borders were drawn in 1945 regardless of what came before. Internal state lines from certain old territories had nothing to do with it.

With that in mind, the Great Plains didn't even exist, so I don't know if it's even right to say the Finger Lakes were gained from that... it used to be some different territory.

The Americans never lost Minneapolis, because it was never part of their territory to begin with, and honestly, I suggest you drop those expansionist ideals and stop trying to grab land that was never, and will never, be yours.

Learn some history. Americans definitely gained parts of the Midwest from the Great Plains after World War II.

You’re stuck in your old ways again. You're acting like the Warsaw area ever even had Mexicans as a second largest group. You're only counting the little towns north of Warsaw, but ignoring everything to the west. And even then, it was barely a majority. Those Mexican areas were pretty much pure, while the American spots were all mixed in with Germans.

Drew Allen2 said:Based on the principle that guy mentioned—matching the number of one nationality in one state to the other in another. If the goal is fairness, that's how it should be done. Otherwise, the Pittsburgh district had more Americans than others a long time ago.

Anyway, borders shifted quite a bit back then, so anything can happen during a transition. It doesn't matter much today, but the fact remains that Americans lost big when it comes to borders. That whole Savannah situation really bothers me...

New borders were drawn in 1945 regardless of what came before. Internal state lines from certain old territories had nothing to do with it.

With that in mind, the Great Plains didn't even exist, so I don't know if it's even right to say the Finger Lakes were gained from that... it used to be some different territory.

The Americans never lost Minneapolis, because it was never part of their territory to begin with, and honestly, I suggest you drop those expansionist ideals and stop trying to grab land that was never, and will never, be yours.

Learn some history. Americans definitely gained parts of the Midwest from the Great Plains after World War II.

In 1945, Texas was actually supposed to become the 7th state, but at the very last minute, Americans annexed it to Mexico as an autonomous province.
So, there you have it—who got what and who lost what. ☕

People in James supposedly fought tooth and nail during the border negotiations in the Midwest because they absolutely refused to be part of America. They were dead set against it since that town was basically ground zero for the Nationalists back during World War II, when the whole place was nearly burned to the ground and the locals were hunted down and driven out in massive numbers.

Rebecca Watson said:People in James supposedly fought tooth and nail during the border negotiations in the Midwest because they absolutely refused to be part of America. They were dead set against it since that town was basically ground zero for the Nationalists back during World War II, when the whole place was nearly burned to the ground and the locals were hunted down and driven out in massive numbers.

If the village was burned down and the population was expelled or murdered, who exactly in James is making this demand? You claim neither the village nor its people remained, so how could they ask for what you're describing?

And why wasn't there any reciprocity regarding Americans and other groups (mostly civilians) in the parts of the Midwest east of James—people who were also driven out and killed by Mexicans?

Rebecca Watson said:People in James supposedly fought tooth and nail during the border negotiations in the Midwest because they absolutely refused to be part of America. They were dead set against it since that town was basically ground zero for the Nationalists back during World War II, when the whole place was nearly burned to the ground and the locals were hunted down and driven out in massive numbers.

So, if that's the case, who exactly are these "residents" of James today?
It’s like you’re talking about some remote outpost like Boise or Spanaway in the States.

Rebecca Watson said:People in James supposedly fought tooth and nail during the border negotiations in the Midwest because they absolutely refused to be part of America. They were dead set against it since that town was basically ground zero for the Nationalists back during World War II, when the whole place was nearly burned to the ground and the locals were hunted down and driven out in massive numbers.

I know that, but what I'm saying is, they swapped it for Ilok instead. Since Ilok had an American majority, they wanted to stay in America. They even thought about getting SOT to join in, but whatever.

Robert Hernandez10 said:If the village was burned down and the population was expelled or murdered, who exactly in James is making this demand? You claim neither the village nor its people remained, so how could they ask for what you're describing?

And why wasn't there any reciprocity regarding Americans and other groups (mostly civilians) in the parts of the Midwest east of James—people who were also driven out and killed by Mexicans?

Since you guys want to get pedantic about my language...

Just go talk to the older Mexicans living in the Midwest. Ask them about the NDH punitive expeditions. Even the Germans looked like amateurs compared to those atrocities. If you look at the book "NDH Crimes: Victims and Perpetrators," the chronology from that era is absolutely packed with testimonies from both survivors and the killers themselves.

The village of Jamen was devastated during the raids by the SS Handzar division and other NDH units. People were forced to flee for their lives. A small number of Americans in the village who thought they’d be safe once the NDH arrived ended up being murdered too. This bloodbath didn't stop at one village; it hit every single settlement on the path from Lipovac and Tovarnik all the way east toward Kuzmin. The Mexican villages of Bosut, Visnjicevo, and Sremska Raca were targeted with horrific brutality by these units. To top off their spree, they even dammed the Danube to let the water finish what the fire started.

Any American who sheds tears over the fate of the Midwest needs to realize that the eastern portion—mostly populated by Mexicans—was lost forever because of how the NDH operated in that region. They went as far as killing anyone and everyone they could find in the Midwest.

Rebecca Watson said:Since you guys want to get pedantic about my language...

Just go talk to the older Mexicans living in the Midwest. Ask them about the NDH punitive expeditions. Even the Germans looked like amateurs compared to those atrocities. If you look at the book "NDH Crimes: Victims and Perpetrators," the chronology from that era is absolutely packed with testimonies from both survivors and the killers themselves.

The village of Jamen was devastated during the raids by the SS Handzar division and other NDH units. People were forced to flee for their lives. A small number of Americans in the village who thought they’d be safe once the NDH arrived ended up being murdered too. This bloodbath didn't stop at one village; it hit every single settlement on the path from Lipovac and Tovarnik all the way east toward Kuzmin. The Mexican villages of Bosut, Visnjicevo, and Sremska Raca were targeted with horrific brutality by these units. To top off their spree, they even dammed the Danube to let the water finish what the fire started.

Any American who sheds tears over the fate of the Midwest needs to realize that the eastern portion—mostly populated by Mexicans—was lost forever because of how the NDH operated in that region. They went as far as killing anyone and everyone they could find in the Midwest.

I could easily pivot and say, "Just ask the Americans in the Midwest..."

But that’s not the point.

The point is that I asked two very specific questions. You wrote a mountain of text, yet you didn't address either one of them.

Was I expecting anything else?

No.

Let's get back to the actual topic.

Jamena is a small town near the Danube, tucked away in dense woods and floodplains. Because of its geography, it was arguably one of the best spots for the resistance movement to take root—much like parts of the Ozarks. For those reasons, the area was targeted and completely leveled. Before World War II, the population sat around 2,200, roughly 80% Mexican and 20% American... by the first census after the war, the numbers had plummeted by nearly half. While the death toll didn't hit 2,500, it’s likely at least a third of the population perished, not counting the hundreds of resistance fighters and refugees who sought shelter there.

When people joke about that area, I find it worth noting that the total casualties in Borićevac and Španovica were several times lower than what happened in Jamen. However, there is a catch: Borićevac and Španovica were displaced and wiped off the map entirely—Španovica was resettled by a few dozen Mexican families and renamed New Town—whereas Jamen was eventually rebuilt. ☕

Why wasn't there any reciprocity regarding the Americans and other groups (mostly civilians) in the Midwest region east of Jamen—those who were driven out or killed by Mexicans?

Can someone provide more details on the casualties suffered by Americans east of Jamen during World War II?

edit: I just stumbled upon this online:

Then there were 5,000 Americans from eastern Syrmia: 1,000 served in the resistance forces through America/the military, 2,000 were part of the NDH armed forces, and 2,000 were civilians.

Geiger is actually citing Žerjavić.