Jericho

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by Excalibur

Good point, but still, why only just the side of the US from the east of the Misissippi river? The series doesn't explain about why Texas was able to be independent, then again this series was cancelled, so a lot of things that could have been explained, wasn't.

I imagine that the new government won the loyalty of enough states in the West that those who didn't fall in line with the Cheyenne regime faced economic embargoes and possibly an invasion force if they didn't join the Allied States. So it was a matter of coercing them.

Texas was the only state able to stay out of both the U.S. and A.S. because it had a massive coastline and enough oil and military forces to hold out on its own, I guess.

But like you said, we might have found out more if the show hadn't been cancelled.