NMEA: We will not cease our struggle for a more centralized Northern Capital

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

Interesting idea. I would join but I've gotta keep something under wraps for a bit. It's kinda big and of a RL personal nature.

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

Restore the Mideast to active status on its own. Every state not just the ones in the North.

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

Oh, good Lord.

Look, I fully support moving the seat of government to a more centralized location if that is what the people of the Region want, but this:

As the founder of NMEA, I oppose the current draft constitution for the Northern Region as written and will continue to oppose it until the capital is moved to a more centralized location and there are protections put in place to protect the people of the Mideast. 

is simply absurd. There is an amendment process, you know. We have been working on this Constitution for over a month now - to scrap the entire thing because one sentence is not to your liking is completely irrational.

As for the bizarre suggestion that we might somehow "restore" the Mideast Region: are you people insane? We went over and over this at the ConCon: the game in its current form cannot support four regions without one or more of them lapsing into inactivity. To cleave the North in two would effectively murder both regions and return the game to the unsustainable position it was in a year ago.

The time has come for us to set aside old sectional prejudices and unite as one people. I was as proud as anyone to be a citizen of the Mideast. The months I spent presiding over its legislature remain the happiest of my Atlasian career. But because I love the Mideast, I renounce the fatal hubris that would deny us the fruits and opportunities of this new age. The distinctions between Mideasterners and Northeasterners are no more. I am not a Mideastern man, but a Northerner.

You are a Mideasterner Truman. I will be for another week or so. There are firm distinctions being borne out within the political and cultural process and many Mideasterners like me do feel alienated when this decision came out. Especially with the fact that other regions had a greater hand in the dissolution of the region. That decision should been ours and ours alone. That's why I opposed consolidation and still do.

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

I may've recently moved to the South but I am in solidarity with this group advocating for equity, respect, and a more central capital for the Northern region.

Its decisions like this that further prove that the Mideast should live in todays Atlasia.

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

Please give this a rest.  The committee has spoken, and the people have spoken.  They want the capital to be in the region's largest city, New York.  That's the same thing some U.S. states have done, despite the city not being central - like Boston.  Besides, the capital of the old Mideast was in Maryland, despite not being central to its population.

It wasn't a majority vote. Thus it should be contested via referendum between the two highest vote getting cities. NYC and Pittsburgh.

This isn't over. The citizens of the former Mideast deserve equity and respect in this decision. The coast is getting everything it wants in the merger and the western states of the north got nothing. How is that right? It's not. The Coastal parts need to make concessions so the citizens of the Mideastern states partitioned to the north feel like equal partners in the merger.