Timeline & Brief Chronology of the United States 2010-2030

The following timeline and brief chronology has been reconstructed following the destruction by Authority censors of the entire Holopedia and Wikipedia entries on the history of the United States in the 21st Century. As a result of this censorship, we are gradually reassembling that history and so invite readers with knowledge of any of the topics flagged below to submit credible entries for possible inclusion in the Holopedia, including links to appropriate Wikipedia entries that may still exist in the holosphere. Our Editorial Board will carefully consider all submissions, and will include in part or whole any entries they deem credible. The Board reserves the right to make appropriate edits for stylistic consistency and factual corrections in so far as we have knowledge of conflicting facts.

2010– Mexican government withdrawal from USA border
In a military-political-economic retrenchment that was to presage things to come, the Mexican government withdrew services from the entire border with the USA due to uncontrollable drug-trade related violence there and the inability (or unwillingness) of the Mexican military and federal police to stop illegal immigrants from pouring across the border into the USA. Anarchy ensued in which the drug lords were the only law.

Readers are invited to submit potential Holopedia and/or surviving Wikipedia entries on Mexican-American Border Conflicts, including entries on:
(1) the growing problems associated with “illegal” border crossings in the latter part of the 20th century
(2) Mexican police involvement in drug-running, kidnapping, rape, and murder on the border in the first decade of the 21st century
(3) Mexican and USA government policies and practices regarding legal and illegal Mexican migrant workers from the 1940s until 2015

2011– Beginning of abandonment of coastal regions of USA
Following seven consecutive years of multiple Category 5+ hurricanes and unequivocal projections of significantly rising sea levels due to global warming, the coastal areas of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, the Carolinas, and the Yucatan began to empty out. First, corporations relocated to higher ground, followed by their workers which set up a chain reaction of abandonment by local businesses followed by their workers, and so on. By 2012, only workers involved in the energy and homeland security sectors remained, provisioned by government support agencies.

Readers are invited to submit potential Holopedia and/or surviving Wikipedia entries on:
(1) the abandonment of the American coast
(2) Global warming and category 5 hurricane frequency
(3) Global warming, melting of the polar ice caps, and rising sea levels

2012—Secession of French-speaking Quebec from Canada.
With the exodus of many wealthier English-speaking Canadians to warmer climes, there was a rebirth in the Quebecois separatist movement, resulting in 2009, in Quebec seceding from Canada. In the ensuing years, Quebec was joined in a loose confederation by the Canadian Maritime provinces and the former French Departments of St. Pierre, and Miquelon. Soon after, this French-speaking confederation. which was called Nouvelle France, joined the French Commonwealth and greatly curtailed trade relationships with its English-speaking neighbors, Canada and the USA.

Readers are invited to submit potential Holopedia and/or surviving Wikipedia entries on the history of Nouveau France anytime from the beginning of the Quebec Separatist Movement in 1960 to the present, 2078.

2013– Canada seals its actual and virtual borders with the USA
Canada closed its actual and virtual borders with the USA in an effort to prevent: (1) population flight from frigid Canada to the warmer regions of the USA ; (2) armies of unemployed and under-employed U.S. citizens from crossing into Canada to work jobs that paid in more valuable Canadian dollars: and (3) U.S. citizens from draining the Canadian market of low-cost pharmaceuticals and using fake Canadian IDs to obtain desperately needed (and free) medical care. The Canadian government accomplished this blockade by erecting a 3000-mile long invisible electro-magnetic fence that prevented vehicles and people from crossing the US-Canadian border and by blocking all Internet traffic (including financial transactions) between the two countries.

Readers are invited to submit potential Holopedia entries on The Great Canadian Border Closings of 2013.

2014 – Yucatan Peninsula abandoned by Mexico
The Mexican government withdrew all federal services, including military and police, from the region east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec when the growing fossil-fuel crisis on top of persistent hurricane damage effectively ended tourism on the Yucatan peninsula, leaving it a ghost region of empty luxury hotels, restaurants, and tourist shops.

Readers are invited to submit potential Holopedia entries on Mexican History: The Collapse of the Yucatan Economy (2010-2014)

Also a factor in the withdrawal of the Mexican military was its defeat at the hands of Mayan rebels in the adjoining state of Chiapas.

Readers are invited to submit potential Holopedia and/or surviving Wikipedia entries on Mexican History, especially the Chiapas Uprising anytime from its inception in the 1990s to its conclusion in 2014.

2014– USA military incursion into Mexico
The USA Military moved into major population centers of Mexican states on its border and engaged in series of violent confrontations with drug gangs. This military incursion set off a major diplomatic and potential military crisis between the USNA and Mexican governments, which was resolved early the next year when the Mexican government ceded to the USA the Mexican border states of Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahau, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipa.

Readers are invited to submit potential Holopedia and surviving Wikipedia entries on:
(1)The Mexican Border Crisis of 2014
(2) Historical background of military conflicts involving the two countries in the 19th century (Mexican-American War) and the 20th century (General Pershing’s “Punitive Expedition” to retaliate against Pancho Villa’s attacks in New Mexico, USA)

2015– Absorption of Mexican border states into the USA
The Mexican border states of Baja California, Sonora, and Chihuahau were easily absorbed into the states of California, Arizona, and New Mexico, respectively. However, in a statewide referendum, the Anglo voters of Texas (under the banner of "No more greasers!"), narrowly out-voted the Hispanic voters in refusing to accept the Mexican states of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipa as part of their territory. In 2016, these states were combined and admitted to the Union as a single state, which was named Nueva Tejas (from an Indian word meaning "friendly") in an unsubtle, ironic rejoinder to the racist rejection by the Anglo voters of Texas. (Note: The acceptance of Nueva Tejas as a state was made politically easier as a counterbalance to the loss of Hawaii, which had seceded from the Union in mid-2016; see below.)

Readers are invited to submit potential Holopedia entries on:
(1) The absorption of the Mexican border states into the U.S.
(2) Anti-in-migration laws adopted during this period by states bordering on Mexico and Canada, including the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Hernandez v. The State of Texas, which affirmed a state’s right to pass and enforce such laws

2016– Hawaiian Secession
After a five-year period of mass migration from Hawaii to California, as the tourism-dependent Hawaiian economy collapsed, the remaining citizens, mostly native and mixed-blood Hawaiians, voted to secede from the Union, the first state do so since the American Civil War.

Readers are invited to submit potential Holopedia and/or surviving Wikipedia entries on:
(1) The Hawaiian Secession
(2) Historical background on how Hawaii became first an American Territory and later an American State
(3) The treatment of native Hawaiians by Anglos throughout its history

2017– Abandonment of the Southwestern U.S.
The enormous cost of electricity for air-conditioning and rapidly diminishing water supplies led to mass migration of Anglos from the desert regions of the U.S. southwest, including much of New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, virtually all of the area of the former Mexican states that had been incorporated into the U.S., and the less populated southern sections of Colorado, California, and Texas. These areas became thinly populated de facto Native American reserves, governed primarily by tribal councils and police with only nominal assistance from state or U.S. federal authorities. As a result of the enormous population loss, the once powerful states of New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, lost significant representation in the US Congress, shifting the balance of power in the West temporarily to the mid-sections of California, Colorado, and Texas. (See 2024: 31st Amendment, below.)

Readers are invited to submit potential Holopedia and/or surviving Wikipedia entries on:
(1) the history of the over-development of the American southwest in the late 20th and early 21st centuries and its subsequent abandonment when water and low-cost fuel supplies were insufficient to support those burgeoning populations
(2) the brief significant shift in the balance of power in Congress following the 2020 census until 2023.

2018– Federalization of all U.S. energy resources
The U.S. government federalized all lands and offshore sources of oil, coal, and natural gas and entered into lucrative agreements with energy companies to extract and refine fuels without environmental regulations.

Readers are invited to submit potential Holopedia and/or surviving Wikipedia entries on: the role of energy companies in USA foreign and domestic policies from the 19th century through 2030. We are especially interested in credible information and analysis of “big oil” interests that may have come to play:
(1) during and immediately after World War I
(2) in shaping the geopolitics of the middle-East in the 20th century
(3) as a major factor leading to the Gulf Wars of the late 20th and early 21st centuries
(4) in determining the fatally flawed energy policies of the U.S. and USNA (see below) from the late 20th century to 2030

2019– Indigenous American uprisings
Alaskan Native Peoples protested government seizure of their lands involved in the federalization of energy resources. These protests spread and grew, as indigenous peoples throughout the U.S., Mexico, and Canada rose up in sometimes violent protest against hundreds of years of land-grabs and broken treaties by white/gringo governments in those countries.

Readers are invited to submit potential Holopedia and/or surviving Wikipedia entries on:
(1) the long history of American, Canadian, and Mexican land grabs from and broken treaties with indigenous peoples
(2) the so-called “Indian Uprisings” of 2019-20
(3) historical background of other uprisings by indigenous peoples in the Americas in the 19th and 20th centuries

2020– Native American land rights treaties
In response to widespread “Indian Uprisings,” the governments of the United States, Canada, and Mexico signed a series of Native American Land Rights Treaties with various tribes, ceding to them vast areas of Alaska, the Canadian Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and the Yukon, as well as most of the prairie states of the U.S., and those areas of Mexico occupied primarily by Mayan and other Mexican natives. These treaties all permitted energy companies from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to retain exclusive fuel, mineral, and water rights to these lands and for these countries to maintain military posts to protect corporately owned mines, wells, refineries, pipelines, and other transport systems such as rail lines and highways.

Readers are invited to submit potential Holopedia entries on:
(1) the infamous Native American Land Rights Treaties of 2020
(2) the role of military posts in controlling the lives of indigenous peoples on their own lands from 2020 to 2030

2021– U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations
The U.S. withdrew from the UN, the last straw being the Security Council vote to legally restrict individual citizens and unapproved businesses from using fossil fuels. (The UN moved its headquarters to Jerusalem, where it remained until its collapse in 2031.)

Readers are invited to submit potential Holopedia and/or surviving Wikipedia entries on:
(1) The United Nations from its inception in 1945 until its demise in 2031 including the role of the U.S. as the UN’s greatest supporter and its greatest detractor
(2) Historical background on the League of Nations, proposed by the USA President Woodrow Wilson, but fatally undermined by the refusal of the U.S. Congress to approve American participation in the League

2022– Out-migration from the northern tier of the U.S. and Canada
Skyrocketing heating fuel and gasoline costs led to gradual, but substantive out-migration of middle and working-class families from Northeastern and Great Lakes suburban and rural areas of the U.S. and Canada to rapidly growing cities in the more temperate states of the mid-Atlantic and Appalachia. Poor and working poor in the northeast and Great Lakes region became concentrated almost exclusively in large cities (in the U.S.: New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Newark, Jersey City, Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo, Akron, Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Paul-Minneapolis, Gary, Indianapolis, and in Canada: Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa, Mississauga, Brampton, and Winnipeg), all of which featured cost-effective public transportation systems and energy-efficient high-rise apartment buildings, but little in the way of job opportunities. This situation soon became explosive.

Readers are invited to submit potential Holopedia entries on:
(1) Southward migration of middle and working class families throughout the 2020s
(2) The emergence of mega-ghettos of the poor in the cities of the northeast and the U.S. and Canadian Great Lakes regions throughout the 2020s

2023– Far-west secession
California led a chain of secessions from the U.S., followed soon thereafter by Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, which together formed a loosely knit Western American Confederation, more a free-trade zone than a shared government. Factors contributing to California’s secession reflected the disparate political, ethnic, and class make-up of California: (1) right-wing/working class anger and resentment toward Mexican immigrants who continued to pour in over California’s borders despite state laws making such in-migration illegal; (2) liberal frustration with the isolationist stance taken by the U.S. in withdrawing from the United Nations, (upon secession, California immediately applied for UN membership and signed Asian-Pacific free-trade and security treaties with China, Japan, Oceania, and others); (3) eco-rad disgust with U.S. domestic policies regarding energy, health care, the environment, and individual rights; and, (4) perhaps most importantly, the enmity of California’s influential business community and government leaders toward a federal government that consistently failed to provide needed economic and technical assistance to a state shaken by ten years of catastrophic earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault, which all but divided the state geologically into a narrow, but populous Pacific strip and a much wider and less populous East-of-the-Fault region.

Readers are invited to submit potential Holopedia and/or surviving Wikipedia entries on:
(1) the Far West Secessions
(2) the history of earthquakes in the far west
(3) Kalifornia's Krazy Kulture [Note: this entry made by an anonymous, unregistered individual]

2024– The 31st Amendment
In a deal to prevent the Southwestern states from joining the many other states that had already seceded, the 31st Amendment was passed, restoring lost seats in the House of Representatives to the population-depleted states of the southwest. Under this amendment, the basis for the number of members of the House of Representatives from each state was radically changed. Instead of being entirely population-based ("one person, one vote"), the number of representatives was now to be based on the newly defined concept of “population-potential.” This involved a formula that recognized both a state’s actual population and the population it had supported prior to mass out-migration.

Readers are invited to submit potential Holopedia entries on the four constitutional amendments that passed during the tumultuous second decade of the century.:
(1) the 28th Amendment: redefinition of the separation of powers, greatly strengthening the Executive Branch and weakening the Judiciary
(2) the 29th Amendment: establishment of the Department of Homeland Security as a Super-Department, incorporating the former Department of Defense, the FBI, the CIA, and all other national security agencies
(3) the 30th Amendment: permitting the suspension by the President of all provisions of the Bill of Rights, all state laws, and the majority of federal laws in the case of national emergencies
(4) the 31st Amendment: redefinition of the basis for a state's seats in the House of Representatives


2025– Total abandonment of the American Southwest
Its population already decimated by the near impossibility of providing air conditioning, the southwest received the coup de grace when it was discovered that for a decade nuclear waste facilities in Utah and Nevada had been leaking highly radioactive materials into the water supply of the region. The U.S. government ordered all its citizens to permanently evacuate those parts of Arizona and New Mexico still occupied by Anglos, although Native American tribes were exempted from the order and left to fend for themselves. Evacuation was also mandatory in significant portions of Utah, Nevada, Colorado, and Texas. In addition, many others from areas in these states designated as "unaffected" left of their own volition, no longer trusting the government’s word for their safety. Nevertheless, under the 31st Amendment, these largely abandoned states retained their sizable number of members of the House of Representatives.

Readers are invited to submit potential Holopedia and/or surviving Wikipedia entries on:
(1) the abandonment of the Southwest
(2) the history of the over-development of the southwest during the later quarter of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, with particular attention to water and power resources


2026– Secession of states in the northern tier of the U.S.
Much of the population of New England, the Great Lakes region, and the northern plains states had by now relocated to the center and southern parts of the country due to the near impossibility of heating homes and businesses in winter. In 2026, the federal government ordered those remaining in most parts of these states to leave as well. Citizens in many of these states refused to relocate and resisted military and police action to force them to do so. Armed skirmishes broke out and the U.S. withdrew its troops, as well as its support for those who chose to stay. Vermont, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, the Indian territories of the Dakotas, Montana, and Idaho seceded without further military response by the U.S.

Readers are invited to submit potential Holopedia and/or surviving Wikipedia entries on:
(1) the secessions of 2026
(2) prior secessionist movements in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly during the American Civil War of 1860-65

2027– Formation of new nations and city-states
New Vermont became a nation, incorporating portions of western New Hampshire, upstate New York, and northern Maine. Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and Gary, among others emerged as city-states, dominated by African-Americans. Idaho and Montana merged, forming The Aryan Nation, a largely rural, military nation of white supremacists; declaring themselves to be unfettered by previous U.S. treaties with Native American tribes, they expelled all non-whites from their country. Canada, meanwhile, was rocked by these events in the U.S.; Southern Ontario became a nation of largely English-speaking Caucasians, many of who fled from the U.S. cities now dominated by African-Americans; Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba were absorbed into the growing Native American tribal lands of the American prarie.

Readers are invited to submit potential Holopedia and/or surviving Wikipedia entries on:
(1) the formation of new nations and city-states during this period
(2) armed conflicts between the Aryan Nation and neighboring Indian tribes, supported by the African-American city-states of the Great Lakes
(3) the history of black-white relations throughout the history of the U.S.


2028–Indigenous peoples' recovery of most land lost in the previous three centuries
Most of the new nations and city-states signed treaties with indigenous tribes in which they deeded over rural areas to them, while retaining natural resource exploitation rights. The tribes repopulated many of these areas.

Readers are invited to submit potential Holopedia and/or surviving Wikipedia entries on:
(1) the land treaties of 2028
(2) resettlement by indigenous tribes and their return to self-sufficiency and stewardship of the land.

2029-– The U.S. struggle to survive
Buffeted by secessions, ostracized by most of the rest of the world, and beset by internal chaos resulting from insufficient preparation for huge population shifts and vast energy shortages, the U.S. struggled to survive.

Readers are invited to submit potential Holopedia and/or surviving Wikipedia entries on:
(1) this period of chaos in the last year of the U.S. about which little is known due to a total blackout of news by U.S. censors at the time and in the period following the reconstitution of the new USA in 2030
(2) the history of American isolationism in the 20th and early 21st centuries, resulting in its ostracism by the world community
(3) the failure of the original U.S. to develop an adequate energy policy before it was too late

2030– Break up of the U.S.; formation of the new, much smaller United States of America (USA)
The U.S. dissolved and was reconstituted as a much smaller and significantly weakened country, the New USA, consisting of 10 highly independent states operating under newly constituted Articles of Confederation. (UNDER CONSTRUCTION: 2030 Map of the USA)

Readers are invited to submit potential Holopedia and/or surviving Wikipedia entries on:
(1) details on the formation of the new USA and its constituent states, including its new Articles of Confederation
(2) the weakened position of the new USA in world affairs
(3) the slow evolution of trade relations with other nations and city-states on the American continent
(4) the special danger posed to the world by the new USA’s possession of vast stores of weapons of mass destruction, while the other nations of the civilized world had renounced their use and destroyed all stores of them