The Old, Struggling American Nation-State(s)
It is inaccurate to describe the United States of America as a nation-state. It may have been at one time (or it may have been a confederation of nation-states at one time, depending on your view), but it is not now.
Now, it is an empire.
This map is proof of that:
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A nation-state requires a single people to dominant the state either demographically and/or with power. Ideally, both.1
If there is no power in the hands of one nation, and there exists no supermajority demographic, then there definitely is no nation-state.
Instead, we just have a bunch of independent nations vying for power and privilege within a rapidly decaying empire.
Welcome to the anything-but-united States of America.
This map is a horrifying view of the lost ground. We have a lot of reclaiming to do.
God willing, we won’t lose an inch after this is all over.
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- The nation is the collective group of culturally homogeneous, similar peoples that share blood and history. The state is the political government and its leaders that house the nation(s). For a “nation-state” to exist, it needs to be the combination of these two, where the former is in charge of the latter. ↩︎
