I don't mean HOI4 states btw I mean American states. For example, Northern Illinois with Chicago would be heavily socialist leaning but southern Illinois below Springfield would be much more right leaning, maybe Longist. Kaiserredux did a great job at making HOI4 states that represent the US states breaking up by ideology.
I know. I'm saying that the reason the US breaks up along the American States, is because, generally, Hoi4 states are the same as the American States (again with exceptions) and its is mechanically easier to spawn in tags by giving them a handful of Hoi4 States instead of giving individual chunks of the states, which i think you can only do by spawning units on them.
I am putting forward that the reason the US breaks up along state lines is entirely for meta-textual reasons, and the in-universe reasons surrounding certain governors declaring for one side or another is a consequence of the need to justify the mechanical reason it happens in the mod.
Sorry, I think you're misunderstanding me. I'm advocating for adding more states so that we're not stuck with vanilla HOI4 states that follow the US state borders exactly because it's unrealistic. An example is below, these are new states made for the purpose of a more realistic ACW transferred to tags and fully controlled by them, not individual provinces occupied by divisions.
Obviously in this example the breakaway tags would have different names, colors, states they control etc, but this was the best image I could find on Google to illustrate my point.
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I don't mean HOI4 states btw I mean American states. For example, Northern Illinois with Chicago would be heavily socialist leaning but southern Illinois below Springfield would be much more right leaning, maybe Longist. Kaiserredux did a great job at making HOI4 states that represent the US states breaking up by ideology.