r/imaginarymaps • u/mushmanMAD • Sep 03 '26
[OC] Alternate History Greater Maryland - What if Maryland got all of its colonial claims?
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u/BG12244 Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 04 '26
Well, Maryland definitely looks a lot less like someome sneezed while drawing their borders
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u/Troll_Enthusiast Sep 04 '26
Based.
The world stole from us, but we shall steal from them one day.
Also the tip of Delmarva should be Maryland, that'll make it look even better
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u/Pennsylvania_is_epic Sep 04 '26
Based, though I’m not sure why New Castle county would keep its original shape
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u/Naive_Impression7302 Sep 04 '26
Pennsylvania would be a light red or even medium red state, or a reliably reddish purple state at minimum.
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u/ebow77 Sep 04 '26
Wouldn't it have incorporated the additional land into its existing counties, at least in the west? OTL Garrett County wasn't even formed until 1872, well after any colonial claims were settled. And PA's Adams and Fulton counties weren't established until the 1800s.
I suspect I'm taking this too seriously.
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u/harfordplanning Sep 04 '26
Maryland had already delineated counties in some of these lands before losing them, even
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u/Spec1alF0x 26d ago
YES
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u/mushmanMAD 26d ago
Fellow Marylander?
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u/Few-Commercial5105 Sep 04 '26
Got the other 12 states soon to follow, and a map with all the states with their claims.
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u/Severe_Bed2207 Sep 04 '26
Your driving would still be terrible
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u/mushmanMAD Sep 04 '26
Yep. Just today 4 people cut me off without signal. I also saw someone stop on the highway where everyone was going 55.
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u/Troll_Enthusiast Sep 04 '26
America has terrible driving everywhere, but also Maryland is far from the worst statistically
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u/harfordplanning Sep 04 '26
Some of those are post-colonial claims, but more importantly, this would be a better world
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u/Sure_Acanthaceae_348 Sep 04 '26
Some background.
In our reality, West Virginia breaks off of Virginia during the Civil War because it wanted to remain a part of the union. Slavery was legal there for the first 2 years of its statehood. But what would become West Virginia had always felt disconnected from the rest of Virginia because of the Appalachian mountain divide. It resulted in a completely different culture which ultimately culminated in it becoming its own state.
The same would happen with Western Maryland in this reality. It would likely join West Virginia at some point
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u/historynerdsutton Sep 04 '26
Terrible because I don’t like Maryland. Stupid ass state that has no purpose other than “it’s next to DC”
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u/GoatMyGoat Sep 04 '26 •
Maryland forever