What did France mean by this?

So this happened recently ?

2016

>west sussex
>east sussex
>yorkshire

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the problem with this is it shoehorns at least one diverse shithole into every region so they're all sub-90% white on census records

Why?

Increasing centralization

Just another politically-motivated artificial construct. Picrel is the true divide of France.

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>seeing all those regions hundreds of years old disappear

>comtat venaissin not in provence
>bordeaux not in gascony
>béarn separated from gascony but not the basque country
>that limousin
>that picardie

retarded map

It's a blatant attempt at supressing regional identities even more and to suck German dicks. A lot of the new names are complete shit and sounds like something you'd find in some dystopian 1984ish novel.

>It's a blatant attempt at supressing regional identities even more
Makes sense.

> to suck German dick
How?

plebs
pic related is real france

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>It's just a meme, i swear, l-look at Corsica, don't kill me for being P*risian

Yeah they can take all therse territories, that would push up above 85% german again

>muh ethnic lines
>muh linguistic lines
Hope it quenches your autism

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FLNC officially deposed the arms in 2014

>Forêts
kek

Based new regions:
>Normandy
>Occitania
NOT BASED:
>Hauts-de-France, too many heritages so they had to pick a generic name
>Grand Est, should be named NEW AUSTRASIA

i'm not a parisian but jacobinism is dead and the whole republican values are dying, nobody believe into these bullshits anymore, the rising of corsican nationalism and regionalism in the rest of the country is the proof that the republic has become very weak

you mistake me for a jacobin, i'm a pure rural royalist
lol most of corsicans hate the FLNC, they aren't the only militants fighting for Corsica's independance, FLNC are just mafioso hiding behind a political cause

which one of those counties is the poorest?

When I was in highschool there was a map of the ceremonial counties of England and I would learn them all. I'm really good at British geography now kek

It was proposed by Germany first

northumberland by a long shot. can't have an economy if there's nothing there

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on s'en bat les couilles gros

Ta gueule pédé

>i'm a pure rural royalist
Basé

>n-no! why are arbitrary borders allowed to change?! everything should remain exactly the same forever!!!

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>they're all sub-90% white on census records
Maybe that was the whole point

>arbitrary
no
>everything should remain exactly the same forever!!!
that's right

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good old times

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France getting rid of all the meme states
We ought to do the same such as
>a single Carolina
>a single Dakota
>New Hampshire and Vermont re-unite
>Connecticut and Rhode Island join together or become a part of Massachusetts
>Delaware and Maryland uniting or becoming a part of Virginia
to start things off

Good old times...

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Meme question, serious answer.

1. France is a centralized state, unlike the US which is a federation. In the US the Union has drawn more power to it and away from the states and in France there has been devolution of power since the 1960s so de facto the difference is minimal, but in terms of sovereignity there's a massive difference. The individual states of the US are sovereign and lends legitimacy to the union through their consent, while in France the state itself is sovereign and devolves power to the regions at its leisure. As such, the state is technically free to redraw the internal map as it sees fit, whereas in the US such a redrawing (a state splitting off, or North and South Dakota uniting into a single Dakota) requires the consent of the state in question.

2. There's been a lot of whining that Paris was too powerful and the regions don't have enough power. What better way to counteract this than by creating stronger regions? For example, Nouvelle-Aquitaine is the union of three formerly big wine producing regions with the explicit intent of creating a sort of super wine region.

3. "Much culture" is a meme. Regional cultures will not disappear simply because some lines on an internal(!) map were redrawn. Furthermore, a lot of these cultures are memes onto themselves. Can you tell me about the unique and totally-worth-preserving culture of France-Comté? Limousin? No you cannot.

4. Some of the new regions actually ended up getting names that are much more historically appropriate. Think of the two Normandies being united into a single Normandie, Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Occitanie. Hauts-de-France isn't as bad as the memes make it out to be either. Only the compound names need to be changed (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes? Why not just Auvergne? Y'know, like the Avernii? Vercingetorix?) and Grand Est is retarded (they picked this over Neustrie? Really?).

Feudal borders are the height of arbitrariness.

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>France
>Meme "states"
Cringe, these are historical régions and ethno linguistic areas which are way older than your """country""" and even the colonization of North America

>Hauts-de-France isn't as bad as the memes make it out to be either
Explain.

Let's be real now, the only ones with their own languages are Corsica and Brittany

>Feudal borders are the height of arbitrariness.
Just because a border isn't following a river or a mountain range doesn't make it arbitrary. People owned the land

>Can you tell me about the unique and totally-worth-preserving culture of France-Comté?
Yes I can. But I won't because I don't want to run the risk of attracting tourists.

No, just no they're just the most vocal about it, almost every region has it's own language which were spoken by everyone a century ago
Pic related was a candidate for the last presidential election, he couldn't speak proper French until highschool, only his regional language Béarnais

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If you look at a lot of historical names for regions or parts of a country, it's not unusual to use "upper" or "lower". Just think of Upper and Lower Egypt. Hauts-de-France may not be original, but it's not full retard for the Northernmost part of France. Especially when you realize its previous name is just "Nord".

>Just because a border isn't following a river or a mountain range doesn't make it arbitrary.
It kind of does. Especially when Baron de Skullfuque and Count Suque-me-Dique (and even their dynasties) aren't around anymore but everyone insists on maintaining the borders they squabbled over.

Baron might be gone but landowners and their descendants are still around and mapping was done seriously centuries ago already

Why is his cum blue?

Upper and lower always come in pairs. And upper is generally further inland or more mountainous than lower. So I still consider Hauts de France to be retarded.

Can you divide Flandre into real Flandre and Hainaut & Cambrai? It hurts my eyes....

>Hauts-de-France
you mean Pays-Bas Méridionaux

Too much test I guess, this guy said he wasn't afraid of Trump and Putin because he fought wolves and bears

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holy fucking based, please take us back daddy

fucking based

>i would learn them all
basé
>ceremonial counties
BASÉ

In defence of Durham the city proper is quite wealthy. Its statistics are dragged down because the county is just extended Northumberland.

>Limousin
>Poitou-Charente
>big wine producing regions

quoi le fuck ?

youtube.com/watch?v=ubGjasm63Y0

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle-Aquitaine#Agricultural_and_wine_sectors
Four of its departments alone produce 30% of all wine in France.

When we become independent we will come for Northern Catalonia

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you are Boreal Limousin

m8, I live in Limousin. Wineyards are almost non-existant here, apart some very limited places around Brive and Verneuil. Same for Poitou-Charente.
The reason why Nouvelle Aquitaine produces so much wine is because of the Bordelais.

Old wooden barrels come from Limousin though, as they're made with oak, something we have aplenty here.

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