Talk:States of the United States (Two Americas)

New Mexico
I came up with some figures for New Mexico. Though I worked up some figures based on major cities and counties in OTL New Mexico and Arizona, I decided to go with the OTL population densities of both states multiplied by the respective approximated areas. Here is what I came up with:

App. 135,380 sq. mi. (NM-US) App. 108,050 sq. mi. (AZ-CS)

Total: 243,430 sq. mi. Method:

Width X height of approx. rectangular boundaries. Adjustments made to both to reach actual measured area of the two in OTL.

Actual total: 235,587 sq. mi. Difference: 7,843 Average adj: -3,922

US-NM area = 131,457 sq. mi. '''pop. = 2,129,603 (16.2/mi^2)'''

AZ-CS area = 104,129 sq. mi. '''pop. = 5,862,463 (56.3/mi^2)'''

Method:

OTL density of population times the ATL area. This assumes similar population despersion to each state. Most of US-NM is in Albuquerque. Most of CS-AZ population is in Phoenix.

To take all the towns and shift through them would yield a more accurate number, of course. Here are some representative figures.

US-NM Biggest cities:

Albuquerque 528,497 Rio Rancho 88,901 Santa Fe 73,720 South Valley 39,060 Farmington 43,573 Clovis 33,667 Subtotal 807,418 - (in US-AZ) Apache Co. 69,423 Coconino Co. 116,320 Payson, Gila 15,407 Parker, La Paz 3,181 Mohave Co. 155,032 Navaho Co. 97,470 Yavapai Co. 212,635 Subtotal 666,468

=
Total 1,473,886

Left in W. CS-AZ 4,464,778

Populous Co. in US-NM that are in CS-AZ

Dona Ana 206,419 Chaves 63,060 Otero 62,776 Lea 59,155 391,410

=
4,856,188

I hope all this is satisfactory. We have no way of knowing, really, how southern Arizona (OTL) would have developed under CS settlement. Phoenix became the capital after moving the population centers around at least two times. In New Mexico (OTL) there were two population centers, one in the north and one in the south, the northern one being the biggest. So, for easier figuring, I am going with the population density model. SouthWriter 19:50, February 1, 2011 (UTC)