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>why do we lazily accept the continuing existence of Sudan, a >British colonial construct joining Arab Muslims and African >Christians in Africa's second largest country

If you're going to divide political borders into "real" ones maybe you should start with those within the united states instead of mucking around in Africa. There is always Cascadia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_(independence_movement...

and then you could consider making a state out of New York City since the culture, religion and ethinic mix is radically different than upstate New York (That is the kind of criteria the author cites).

and realistically, you could look at most of the big states in the US and split them up if we're going to start remaking political borders just because they're old or ineffective. I nominate South Jersey as "Snookiandia". Wow this could be fun!