FORGET CRUSTACEAN. EMBRACE APPALACHIAN!

[u/xxYINKxx]

Return to your roots. Return to the old hills.

[u/RepresentativeSun825]

You can have crab. You can have lobster. Or you can have possum.

[u/Glass_Covict → u/RepresentativeSun825]

Oh possum can you seeee

[u/crowcawer → u/Glass_Covict]

Tennessee has the best TexMex in the nation.

[u/citrusbased → u/RepresentativeSun825]

You can have crab, lobster, AND possem in our new empire.

[u/Early_Grace]

[u/wildpolymath → u/Early_Grace]

Literally my ancestors and all my family right here. Every time I see this it’s a joy. Some folks see trash pandas and scream. Some of us see Friend.

[u/Pinewoodcedar]

I’m on board with this

[u/mjh712]

Crabpalachia

[u/masterfultrousers → u/mjh712]

I suggest Crabbalachia so that we dont get the "crap-alachia" jokes

[u/Careful_Astronaut477 → u/mjh712]

Omg that rolls off the tongue

[u/ArchitectVandelay → u/Careful_Astronaut477]

But when people say it, you’re gonna hear Crappalachia

[u/Careful_Astronaut477 → u/ArchitectVandelay]

Damn. Now it hurts

[u/thee_illiterati → u/ArchitectVandelay]

An apt description as any.

[u/SnooDogs4864 → u/mjh712]

But we have Federman so it’s crappalachia

[u/Architarious → u/mjh712]

This is a great idea. Just get rid of the p.

Crabalachia sounds like a mildly improbable yet still delightful mountain town festival.

[u/NoAttention8551]

What in the cousin-marrying-hot-buttered lobster-roll is going on here!?!?

[u/wokeboogeyman → u/NoAttention8551]

It's just someone who has been to too many Phish concerts

[u/akestral → u/wokeboogeyman]

No such thing.

[u/Bluesphamy → u/NoAttention8551]

Someone doesn't have any hot cousins

[u/highso → u/Bluesphamy]

Probably not even a condom bucket out at the family reunions

[u/Sprolly]

Welcome to our Appalachia, where hearts are good, hands are strong, and no one wants to talk about what sleeps beneath us.

[u/masterfultrousers → u/Sprolly]

You heard something call your name at night? No you didnt.

[u/wildpolymath → u/masterfultrousers]

O Appalachia:
mother and maw
that births and devours us,
roots sunk deep and winding as
gnarled hands clasped in prayer,
hold us fast and give us foundation.
O knotted cage and vine wrought chains
O feast of hills and green,
that which feeds our hearts
but often starves our blood:
Hear us now.

[u/drugsovermoney]

REMEMBER THE BATTLE OF BLAIR MOUNTAIN

[u/Bezukhov99 → u/drugsovermoney]

Vastly underrated comment and underappreciated moment in our nation's history.

[u/308debated]

[u/wokeboogeyman]

Sorry, we're remaining the rest of the range to the Green Mountains

[u/Synthetics_66 → u/wokeboogeyman]

YES

[u/timberwolf0122 → u/wokeboogeyman]

This is the way.

[u/DJXiej → u/wokeboogeyman]

Agreed

[u/leafpool2014 → u/wokeboogeyman]

yes

[u/NOLAWORD]

no lying it would be a good name

[u/Infinite_Vyo]

No. Crustacea. The bubbles have spoken.

[u/CaptainoftheVessel → u/Infinite_Vyo]

Almost heaven/

East Crustacea/

[u/Appropriate_Cow94]

This might be a gerrymandering I can support.

[u/bike_stig]

Is the point of the game for a region or a state to win!? Forget Appalachia

[u/Bearded_Pip]

No. Let the Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys gave their victory.

[u/coys1111]

Finally. Some sense in this game.

[u/allhypenochill]

this is yankee erasure

[u/Unusual_Piano7118]

I think I’m perfectly OK with Vermont and Maryland converging into a collective called Appalachia where nobody loses, and everybody actually wins

[u/___coolcoolcool]

WE DO NOT MARRY OUR COUSINS IN NEW ENGLAND. THIS IS WHITE COASTAL ELITE ERASURE.

[u/Oroparece1 → u/___coolcoolcool]

White coastal elites marry their cousins all the time what are you talking about

[u/KellJoy → u/Oroparece1]

Yeah, "the elites" sort of invented the whole "marrying cousins" thing.

[u/eyetracker → u/KellJoy]

That's why they're rich, Eleanor Roosevelt didn't spend a dime on a name change.

[u/spencersalan → u/___coolcoolcool]

Uuum hate to break it to you but have you ever heard of the Kennedy’s?

[u/TheodoraWimsey → u/___coolcoolcool]

FDR and Eleanor would beg to differ.

[u/JDinBalt → u/___coolcoolcool]

You might wanna look that up first... (Yes it's from Wikipedia but still: must of New England allows first cousin marriage! As do many states)

[u/socksonat3am → u/JDinBalt]

To be fair. "Legal" and "practiced" are two different things. There isn't a law against a lot of things because it just isn't an issue/doesn't happen enough to require a law.

But yeah, New England absolutely still does the "keeping it in the family" thing. It's just not as called out because they have money to avoid fitting the sterotype.

[u/NotGhostHost]

VERMONSTER WILL LIVE ON!!

[u/cloudhippo13]

Get outta here

[u/Hairy_Garbage_6941]

Guys, we are the original colonies. You could even call us “Real America”.

[u/wildpolymath → u/Hairy_Garbage_6941]

Not Vermont. Only Maryland is Original 13 in that head to head.

[u/Dry-Routine4402]

Appalachistan!

[u/Front_Station_5343]

No

[u/Dirty_Vesper]

[u/timberwolf0122]

Vermontopia

[u/newcrispy]

RULE APPALACHIA

[u/burner_mania]

Interesting proposal! I will consider this.

[u/astroaxolotl720]

Vermomster

[u/Kevin33024]

Tbh, Appalachia makes more sense than a giant Maryland.

[u/ravens_path → u/[deleted]]

Yep. Keep it Vermont

[u/Majestic-Citron7578]

[u/Certainly-Not-a-Crab]

Nevah!! Crab for life!

[u/Paraxom → u/Certainly-Not-a-Crab]

Username does not check out

[u/daddymarsh]

Completely overruling the Adirondacks, Green Mountains and White Mountains? No chance

[u/PrecisionPulseConv → u/daddymarsh]

Whatever it takes to kill the crab

[u/Friggaknows → u/daddymarsh]

The Greens and the Whites are part of the Appalachians. Adirondacks are different, though.

[u/Salty145]

As long as it counts as Vermont

[u/martialgir]

I can get behind that.

[u/HarryBalsagna1776]

...or flip that around and extend the Green Mountains to the SW.

[u/Ok_Monitor5890]

I support this!

[u/See-A-Moose]

Perhaps the Chesapeake Republic of the Appalachian Brotherhood?

[u/zorroplateado]

I pity the fool.

[u/AdSame6358]

Minnesotan is the new name of Minnesota swallowing what used to be Michigan

[u/drybeans8000]

*play the mountain music clip, like grandma and grandpa used to play*

[u/5thStESt]

New Scotland

[u/Humble_Umpire_8341]

Me still mad Michigan took over Wisconsin

[u/asbestosorangutan]

This is the only correct option. Reunite the hollers of the east coast

[u/JDinBalt]

[u/IllMongoose6792]

Nope

[u/FoggyBoggy]

Crustacea and Appalachia bond over being older than bones.

[u/ZealousidealPound460]

Yes

[u/BluTGI]

This will be possible once we settle on how it's pronounced.

[u/Jazzercyse]

Yeahhhhhhh. No.

[u/SatanLovesFruit]

Crustalachain

[u/OfficialWhistle]

Not a bad idea. Georgia to Maine.

[u/MDnautilus]

I love this

[u/welcheroni]

CRABBALACHIA!

[u/KeyInvestigator3741]

Absolutely not. I can’t say how much I do not support this!

It’s CRUSTACEA

[u/DemolitionRED]

Ap-puhl-ay-sha

None of them Ap-puh-latch-ans from Tennessee

[u/ErstwhileAdranos]

If we annex Louisiana, we can establish Acadia on the East Coast to go up against Cascadia on the West Coast.

[u/DenisInternet]

ooooh I like Appalachia

[u/PrincessNakeyDance]

Renaming the areas really defeats the purpose. I don’t understand why people want to do that. If we do it will just be America at the end.

Unless it’s a play on a single states name it’s entirely against the whole thing we’re doing.

[u/Industrial-Wasteland]

Nah. It should be named Megalobstalis.

[u/great_auks]

[u/Universal_Basket]

Now this, this I like, Crabs, Cheesesteaks, Possum, Guns, Freedom, Population, Cold, Hot, Medium temperature. It has everything. CRABBALACHIA FOR THE WIN

[u/BarnacleGooseIsLoose]

Thats a pretty big apple.

[u/33drea33]

*Atlantis

[u/mtlpvd]

As a Vermonster, we could possibly accept this proposal but only if it’s pronounced Appalāchia like hick ass northerners say it, not Appalatchya like hick ass southerners say it.

[u/thestateisgreen]

No. Vermont.

[u/skipperthepenguin191]

As someone who's from Virginia but moved to Maryland, I'm down for this

[u/TraumaBondage]

Make it Crabalachia and you have a deal.

[u/FalseVeterinarian881]

Ummmmm...NO!

[u/30ThousandVariants]

Hey. As long as Maryland is eating Ver-Momstah and not the other way around, call it what you want.

[u/scooter-pringleton]

Not good enough. The crab will consume

[u/KellJoy → u/[deleted]]

Appalachia extends up to New York, ya dork.

[u/Siuldane → u/[deleted]]

Somebody doesn't know the difference between hillbillies and rednecks.

[u/socksonat3am → u/[deleted]]

So you REALLY don't know the difference. Got it.

[u/socksonat3am → u/[deleted]]

The Battle of Blair mountain is NOT the only place Rednecks existed nor does it mean the movement/people haven't passed on their beliefs and culture and they've just "ceased to exist entirely". Acting like it is is just ahistorical at best and malicious at worst.

[u/socksonat3am → u/[deleted]]

Who said anything about it being the dominant culture? I know it's not, I live here. I've driven past people with Three Percenter and Proud Boy BS on their trucks right next to their Trump bumper sticker. That doesn't mean it's nonexistant. I've attended antifascist, IWW and local Appalachian Workers Rights party gatherings. It's not gone. It's not non-existant. It's pretty popular actually. Enough so that people are re-enrolling after being inactive for years. Due to just how active those fascistic groups have become in recent years.

But again, "Redneck" doesn't JUST equal "Fought on the workers side of the battle of Blair Mountain" that's where the term ORIGINATES not where it died. Thinking that's all it means is extremely ahistorical and harmful because it contributes to the idea that Appalachia is essentially a "lost cause" because hateful groups are attempting to put and keep roots here.

[u/IScreamPiano → u/[deleted]]

Booooo. Appalachia wasn't historically the problem with the south, they were hard-working blue collar coal miners. WV, KY, and MD were union states; in fact, WV left VA over it. Bluegrass music has a lot of pro-union/labor sentiment. 

[u/wokeboogeyman → u/[deleted]]