Buba
A total creep
These seem sort of random - any reason for these?Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, Vermont, and West Virginia.
Also - the listing makes it difficult for me to visualise the ISOT.
I had to squint to figure out two regional, contiguous blocks:
Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, tenously connected New Mexico
and
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont
plus a pair of isolates
Utah and West Virginia
1861->2020
The first effect of the ISOT of the DT States to 2020 is a row over Representatives and Electoral College places ... sorry, 2nd.
The 1st would be an invasion by the UT USA and the imposition of 2020 Law.
2020->1861
Eyeballing things - the CSA lost a big chunk of its territory and c.1/3rd (more?) of its slave population.
Where do the wafers for the chips manufactured in the ISOTed States come from? Or are the wafers made in situ? This leads to my next question - what are the wafers made from? Do they need components from outside the ISOted area? Don't chips need some sort of rare earths (Made in China) or summpin'?
BTW - this question - about the commodity chain in the manufacture of anything - must be asked about everything made inside the ISOTed zone.
Cell phones were mentioned - cool, they will work just fine inside the ISOTed zone. Outside it - you have to use radio as there are no cell phone towers around ...
For world conquest missions - remember that there are no communication satellites nor GPS.
US slaves of 1861 - I believe a tiny minority were imports, seeing that from 1808 slave imports were banned (or was the ban of the transatlantic slave trade only?), so something like 99% would be born in the USA. Sending them "back" is a misnomer. Also, those who went to Liberia in OTL immediately set themselves up as a local slavocracy (in deed if not in name).
The UT States can take in the c.2M blacks from the DT States and not notice such an inflow much ...
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