History Main / DividedStatesOfAmerica

* Creator/{{A24}} and Creator/AlexGarland's ''Film/CivilWar2024'' is "Divided States of America/SecondAmericanCivilWar: the feature film," with 19 states seceeded along with California and Texas, who made their alliance together, and Florida just suceeded themselves from the rest. It tells a point of view of journalists trying to reach the Capitol all while trying to navigate their family through the violence while attempting to report the truth — despite violent threats to journalists from the army.

* Creator/{{A24}} and Creator/AlexGarland's ''Film/CivilWar2024'' is "Divided States of America: the feature film," with 19 states seceeded along with California and Texas, who made their alliance together, and Florida just suceeded themselves from the rest. It tells a point of view of journalists trying to reach the Capitol all while trying to navigate their family through the violence while attempting to report the truth — despite violent threats to journalists from the army.

* Creator/{{A24}} and Creator/AlexGarland's ''Civil War'' is "Divided States of America: the feature film," with 19 states seceeded along with California and Texas, who made their alliance together, and Florida just suceeded themselves from the rest. It tells a point of view of journalists trying to reach the Capitol all while trying to navigate their family through the violence while attempting to report the truth — despite violent threats to journalists from the army.

* Creator/{{A24}} and Creator/AlexGarland's ''Civil War'' is "Divided States of America: the feature film," with 19 states secceeded along with California and Texas, who made their alliance together, and Florida just succeeded themselves from the rest. It tells a point of view of journalists trying to reach the Capitol all while trying to navigate their family through the violence while attempting to report the truth — despite violent threats to journalists from the army.

* [[http://www.republicoflakotah.com/ The Republic of Lakotah]] recently seceded from the United States. Currently, this declaration has been in name only.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'': Sometime after the United States landed a man on the moon, each US state [[DifferentStatesOfAmerica was organized into one of Thirteen Commonwealths]], with [[ExpandedStatesofAmerica Canada later annexed as a fourteenth Commonwealth]] shortly before the start of the [[WorldWarIII Great War]]. The hope was that the creation of a new layer of bureaucracy between the state and federal level would help end political strife and would help resolve common regional concerns shared by states within those Commonwealths. In reality, it created even ''more'' civil and political strife, as the Commonwealths viciously competed against one another and the federal government to promote their own interests above the others. The energy crisis, wars, New Plague, and political oppression only made things worse. In the aftermath of the Great War, social and political organization would rarely exceed the community level.

* ''Literature/LucifersHammer'': The protagonist survivors, living in and around California's San Joaquin Valley, all make jokes about the five announcements they've received over short-wave radio, each proclaiming a different person President of the United States. The only one they give any level of credence to is the group in Colorado Springs because a) the person making the proclamation is the former Speaker of the House and thus might actually have legal authority and b) apparently NORAD survived and they still have nukes and working bombers. As far as they are concerned, Arthur Jellison (former US Senator and leader of the effort to organize and rebuild) is their leader. One person jokes that Jellison is 'the Duke of San Joaquin'.

* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' had California and Cascadia (which added the Yukon, Northwest Territory, and Alaska) secede from the U.S. in the late 22nd century. Both of these were regional superpowers with multiple colonies in the Asteroid Belt and outer solar system until the Nanodisaster.

* ''Website/TheOnion'': In "[[https://politics.theonion.com/texas-constructs-u-s-border-wall-to-keep-out-unwanted-1819570767 Texas Constructs U.S. Border Wall To Keep Out Unwanted Americans]]", Texas secedes from the U.S. and builds a triple wall around itself to drive the point home. [[AcceptableTargets The rest of America is mostly glad to be rid of it]].

* In the ''Film/ThePatriot'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1872979/1/God-Save-the-King-How-Thomas-Met-His-Destiny God Save the King! How Thomas Met His Destiny]]'', this happens mixed with AmericaIsStillAColony - the war ends in a negotiated peace where Maryland, Delaware and Virginia form a nation called the "United Commonwealth of America", New England also becomes independent, while Georgia, the Carolinas, the western half of Virginia (i.e Kentucky), New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania remain under British control.

* Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Literature/Timeline191'' chronicles an alternate timeline where the Confederate States won the UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar, leading to the Confederacy remaining an independent nation through the late 19th century up through UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Aside from North American being split between the United States and the Confederate States, there are numerous other subtle geographical changes: the states of UsefulNotes/NorthDakota and UsefulNotes/SouthDakota are a single state called "Dakota", UsefulNotes/{{Arizona}} and UsefulNotes/NewMexico are a single state called "New Mexico", [[UsefulNotes/OklahomaUSA Oklahoma]] is a sovereign state ruled by Native Americans called "Sequoyah", the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua are part of the Confederacy (as is UsefulNotes/{{Cuba}}), part of UsefulNotes/{{Texas}} eventually splits off and becomes a separate state called "Houston", and UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}} eventually becomes an independent republic.

* In ''Literature/TheSchizogenicMan'', America has fragmented into several small countries, including New City, Texas, Tropicana, and the Middle. [[spoiler:Texas eventually declares war on Tropicana, causing refugees to pour into New City. When the war turns nuclear, New City is destroyed, and the governmetal supercomputer MEQMAT with it. MEQMAT unsuccessfully tries to find a timeline in TheMultiverse where the war doesn't happen.]]

* In the alternate version of ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' shown in ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'', America is divided in twain between the Iron, ruled by [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] and the Blue, ruled by [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]]. The Iron being analogous to the Eastern US with the Blue being the west, and St Louis, which was devastated during the escape from the Negative Zone prison, is the boundary between the two. Both sides see their side as an {{Utopia}}: The Iron clamps down on certain civil liberties, such as superpowers, but is very prosperous and growing, with many seeing them as a legitimate nation. The Blue is a free nation where there're only two real rules: don't wreck shit and don't be a deadbeat. However, most of the Blue is barren land where places to grow food is tough and other nations refuse to recognize it as anything more than a rogue state. The Iron, however, is ''too'' prosperous and is growing out of control.

* In ''Series/MotherlandFortSalem'', a portion of the United States was ceded back to the First Nations peoples in exchange for the [[MagicByAnyOtherName working]] that allows General Alder to be functionally immortal. The mini-country is called the Chippewa Cession, or more commonly just "the Cession", and encompasses what would be Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana in our world (although real-life Oklahoma is called Louisiana instead). The Cession is governed by a council who represent seven distinct language groups (Salish, Shoshone, Lakota, Ojibwe, Muscogee, Iroquois and Cherokee), six of whom are women since most societies in the ''Motherland'' world tend towards matriarchy. Not everyone who lives in the Cession is Native American; one of the main trio of the show, Raelle, is Caucasian and grew up there. Relations between witches and [[{{Muggles}} civilians]] are more equitable in the Cession, which often leads to witches who are dodging the US's country-wide draft using the Cession to hide and move around, although its borders are patrolled by the formidable Cession Marshals.

* In ''Series/MotherlandFortSalem'', a portion of the United States was ceded back to the First Nations peoples in exchange for the [[MagicByAnyOtherName working]] that allows General Alder to be functionally immortal. The mini-country is called the Chippewa Cession, or more commonly just "the Cession", and encompasses what would be Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana in our world (although real-life Oklahoma is called Louisiana instead). The Cession is governed by a council who represent seven distinct language groups (Salish, Shoshone, Lakota, Ojibwe, Muscogee, Iroquois and Cherokee), six of whom are women since most societies in the ''Motherland'' world tend towards matriarchy. Not everyone who lives in the Cession is Native American; of the main trio of the show, Raelle, is Caucasian and grew up there. Relations between witches and [[{{Muggles}} civilians]] are more equitable in the Cession, which often leads to witches who are dodging the US's country-wide draft using the Cession to hide and move around, although its borders are patrolled by the formidable Cession Marshals.

* In ''Series/MotherlandFortSalem'', a portion of the United States was ceded back to the First Nations peoples in exchange for the [[MagicByAnyOtherName working]] that allows General Alder to be functionally immortal. The mini-country is called the Chippewa Cession, or more commonly just "the Cession", and encompasses what would be Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana in our world (although real-life Oklahoma is called Louisiana instead). The Cession is governed by a council who represent seven distinct language groups (Salish, Shoshone, Lakota, Ojibwe, Muscogee, Iroquois and Cherokee), six of whom are women since most societies in the ''Motherland'' world tend towards matriarchy. Not everyone who lives in the Cession is Native American; of the main trio of the show, Raelle, is Caucasian and grew up there. Relations between witches and [[{{Muggle}} civilians]] are more equitable in the Cession, which often leads to witches who are dodging the US's country-wide draft using the Cession to hide and move around, although its borders are patrolled by the formidable Cession Marshals.

* In ''Series/MotherlandFortSalem'', a portion of the United States was ceded back to the First Nations peoples in exchange for the [[MagicByAnyOtherName working]] that allows General Alder to be functionally immortal. The mini-country is called the Chippewa Cession, or more commonly just "the Cession", and encompasses what would be Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana in our world (although real-life Oklahoma is called Louisiana instead).

* In ''Series/MotherlandFortSalem'', a portion of the United States were ceded back to the First Nations peoples in exchange for the working that allows General Alder to be functionally immortal. The mini-country is called the Chippewa Cession, or more commonly just "the Cession", and encompasses what would be Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana in our world (although real-life Oklahoma is called Louisiana instead).

* In ''Series/MotherlandFortSalem'', a portion of the United States were ceded back to the First Nations peoples in exchange for the working that allows General Adler to be functionally immortal. The mini-country is called the Chippewa Cession, or more commonly just "the Cession", and encompasses what would be Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana in our world (although real-life Oklahoma is called Louisiana instead).

* Following the 2016 election of Donald Trump, the California Independence Movement (Calexit) gained some momentum moving from 13% to 32% in terms of support. Supporters like to point out that the State gives more resources to the Federal Government than it takes and is the 6th largest economy in the world if counted separate from the United States. Detractors like to point out that there is no legal succession from the United States and California is the largest solid for the Democratic Party (and in general) and it leaving will mean a larger gap to cover when the next elections come up. (Notably, Trump won the popular vote without California, and the house would lose over 40 Democrats but less than 10 Republicans in such a scenario) Most people see little difference between this and when Texas was threatening to leave when Obama was elected 8 years previous. Another point brought up against this is that California's economic power is rooted in its large ports for trade between the United States and the rest of the Pacific as well as having the rest of the US as a common market for Californian goods.

* The People's Republic of [[HollywoodCalifornia California]]. Otherwise the rich in Hollywood aren't ready to give up their wealth and UsefulNotes/{{California}} becomes OneNationUnderCopyright like in ''Film/BladeRunner'' with some Japanese influence as well.

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* Although technically still a single nation the United Seven States of America (USSA), in Jerry Jenkins's ''Soon'', has been divided into seven semi-independent districts as depicted in [[http://bayimg.com/GacNdAadg this fanwork]].

* In ''After America'', John Birmingham's second book in his ''Wave'' trilogy about a mysterious energy field called "the Wave" that wipes out the populations of huge chunks of Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Cuba. Most of the continental US remains uninhabited three years after, with a renegade general becoming the Governor of Texas and running it as a quasi-independent state, Manhattan being a battleground between jihadis, pirates, European mobsters and the reestablished US government. That government, based out of Seattle, is trying to create seed colonies scattered around the country.

* In ''Broken Angel'' by Sigmund Brouwer, Appalachia is a {{Dystopia}}n theocracy independent from the United States.

* In ''Cloudsplitter'' by Russell Banks, John Brown constantly predicts the takeover of the United States by pro-slavery forces which, he says, will force New England to secede.
* In Maurice Dantec's ''Cosmos Incorporated'' the combination of the Grand Jihad and the Second Civil War results in an America with three capitals (Detroit, Washington DC, which is little more than a city-state surrounded by a Muslim Caliphate controlling the east coast and Atlanta). There is also a Mohawk nation straddling the former US-Canada border.

* Card also wrote a series of short stories (collected as "Folk of the Fringe") in which US society crumbled after a limited nuclear exchange with Russia. The Mormon church and the population of the mountain west establish a quasi-theocratic society called Deseret in Utah and the surrounding areas. While certainly not a utopia, this nation is implied to be relatively stable and successful, while much of the country has descended into anarchy.

* In Creator/LEModesittJr's ''Ghosts'' series, history is different due to the presence of actual, scientifically-verifiable ghosts that appear after a violent death in which the person knows he or she is dying. North America is split into Columbia (a United States analogue where the Dutch are one of the prominent people), the Mormon Theocracy of Deseret, New France, and Quebec, among other things.

* Creator/WalterJonWilliams's ''Hardwired'' has a heavily balkanized territory formerly known as the USA, in which Hovertank jockeys make a fortune flying contraband across fortified state borders.

* In Alan Steele's ''Jericho Iteration'' UsefulNotes/{{Oregon}} and UsefulNotes/{{Washington}} have seceded to form the nation of Cascadia.

* In Creator/MattRuff's ''The Mirage'' the Christian States of America is composed of 17 States, 18 after Mississippi joins in 1990. An attempt to annex Louisiana results in the Mexican Gulf War. There is also an Evangelical Republic of Texas that also claims Oklahoma, New Mexico and the Mexican state of Coahuila although the inhabitants of these place all beg to differ, a Rocky Mountain Nation that controls,more in theory than fact, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas because it itself is split up into small tribal factions, a Mormon nation although it's based in Missouri rather than Utah and the Pentacostal Heartland State of Gilead. How big the latter is is unstated but Tennesee, Kentucky, Ohio, and Michigan form its eastern edge.
* In John Barnes's ''Mother of Storms'', set in 2028 (written in 1994) Alaska successfully petitioned the UN for its independence.

* By the end of Creator/WilliamRForstchen's ''One Second After'', [[spoiler:China has taken over the West Coast, Mexico has grabbed a large chunk of the South West, the US Government controls the East Coast and the rest of the country is more or less up for grabs and in chaos.]]

* On [=E3=] in Creator/IanMcDonald's ''Planesrunner'' has the Confederate States of America, which apparently seceded in the 1850s, the United States, and Mexica, which is the west coast that used to belong to Mexico before ''it'' seceded.
* 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.alternatehistory.com/discussion/attachment.php?attachmentid=26602&stc=1&d=1177373663 a handy map]].

%% * Daniel da Cruz's ''Republic of Texas'' trilogy. The title says it all.

* Stoney Compton's ''Russian Amerika'' features an alternate universe where North America is made up of The United States, The Confederate States, The First People's Nation, New France (Quebec), British Canada, The Republic of California, Deseret, The Republic of Texas, New Spain (Mexico), and the titular Russian Amerika (Alaska). Notably, the latter is not an example of RussiaCalledTheyWantAlaskaBack, as, in this reality, the Alaska Purchase never happened due to the Union not having enough money to acquire it after losing the Civil War.

* Dean Ing wrote a trilogy beginning in ''Systemic Shock'' with World War IV: the Chinese-Indian alliance launches a massive nuclear and bio-weapons strike that kills roughly 100 million Americans. Afterward, the U.S. government quarantines the southern East Coast, where most of the bio-weapons spread, from New York down to the tip of Florida, and west to the Mississippi. Mexico grabs a strip of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and almost all of the California coast; New England and each northernmost state along the border become a Canadian Protectorate. The rest is "Streamlined America."

* The ''Wingman'' series by Mack Maloney (written in the 1980s) takes place in a setting where the United States was forcibly dismantled by the Soviet Union after being tricked into thinking that it lost WorldWarIII. However, by the end of the series, the country has reunited (primarily due to the heroes' efforts).

* In the ''ComicBook/OldManLogan'' story arc, the villains took over the US and it got broken up in several pieces with the US being the original thirteen colonies.

* Ten years later, after the Republic of Texas was annexed by the United States (which triggered [[UsefulNotes/MexicanAmericanWar war with Mexico]]), the territory's original borders were minorly balkanized--parts of Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico once belonged to the Republic of Texas.

* The [[PunkPunk Cattle Punk]] TabletopRPG ''TabletopGame/{{Aces and Eights}}'' takes place in an AlternateUniverse, where the Divided States of America include the U.S., the Confederate States of America, Deseret, and a Tribal confederacy.