Alt.Geography: Breaking Arizona?

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Baja Arizona map, a photo by Lost States on Flickr.

You know me: I love a good bout of speculative geopolitical mapping as much as the next map collector. This one got my attention today, thanks to loststates.com, and I've got a question for anyone from Arizona reading this:How serious is this argument right now?

Comments

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

Interesting.

The territory covered by the "Baja Arizona" proposal is almost the same as that included in the Gadsden Purchase of 1853 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsden_Purchase) from Mexico. The only major exception is a slice of land that is now part of the state of New Mexico.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Which may explain why "Gadsden" is being suggested in some quarters as an alternative name for this proposed state.