Almost a week ago I uploaded a map of how I would personally reorganize the administrative resignations of Spain, under the idea of ​​a federal Spain and taking into account historical, cultural and linguistic factors, and desires for separation or union from the 19th century to the present.

The post attracted both praise and criticism, and many people who decided to give me advice and ideas of possible errors and/or misinformation that I had used to create the map. The truth is that I really appreciate all the people who constructively criticized some of the things I did in the first map, and I decided to take them into account for this second version.

Obviously something that happened in the first post is people giving contradictory ideas, so when it came to making changes I opted for the options that had the most comments and/or upvotes.

With all this already said, I give way to:

Changes made compared to the first version

• The addition of the province of Malaga to the state of Granada. Maybe the change with more people supporting it. When I made the first version, at first I was going to add the province of Malaga to the other three, but after investigating and seeing how during the two major attempts to separate Andalusia, Malaga backed down a bit, I preferred to be cautious and leave it with Andalusia/Betica. But many people in the post commented that Malaga should be part of Granada, so it’s done.
• Navarre. As I said in the original post, whether or not the union of the Basque Country and Navarra is a controversial issue, and one with which in my opinion I saw good both union and separation. In this version I preferred to be cautious and separate them unlike version 1.0
• Rioja. My intention in the original map was to give Rioja areas that they had had when the province of Logroño was first formed at the beginning of the 19th century, in addition to others that my Internet search had people saying were culturally Rioja. Well, since no one supported that idea in the first post and there were quite a few people against it, La Rioja stays as it is IRL.
• The addition of areas from Madrid to Old Castilla. I was informed in the first post that municipalities in the mountain area and the Guadarrama basin in Madrid felt culturally linked to Segovia. And after a little research I discovered that several parts had been part of Segovia until the mid-19th century. The regions of Sierra Oeste and Cuenca del Guadarrama have been added in their entirety, while in the Sierra Norte I have been cautious and have only given the municipalities that were once part of Segovia, since other kingdoms such as Toledo or Guadalajara controlled other parts of the Sierra Norte.

Questions and doubts for a possible version 3.0

Although the truth is that I am more than satisfied with this map, there are still some possibilities and "What Ifs" I’m still thinking about them and I would really like to know the opinion of others (preferably people who live in the aforementioned autonomous communities or who have knowledge of them) on whether to make them on a possible version 3.0

Among them there are some like:

• The union of León with Asturias. There is a historical, cultural and linguistic reference, and I know that the idea has been proposed a couple of times by the Leonese regionalist movement, and that it was about to be done in the transition, stopped for political purposes. But I don’t know how the idea is seen today by people from León or Asturias, so I would like to know more.
• Navarra and Basque Country. Something that was mentioned in the previous post is the idea of ​​a union between Navarra and the Basque Country, but under the flag of Navarra. I don’t know how the Basque or Navarrese themselves would see that idea, but it has more historical reference than the union under Euskadi. Again I would like to know opinions on this.
• Union of Castiles. Castilianism is a movement that can almost never win, since almost all the regions that would be part of a hypothetical Greater Castilla have a strong regionalist sentiment. That’s why I considered uniting Old and New Castile into a single Castile. But what stops me more than anything is the fact that perhaps it would be too big a state, and that the people in La Nueva would be ignored and left aside by La Vieja where the capital and more populated areas would be. I would like to know if my intuition is correct.
• Names. Something I’ve seen in my various Internet research is the idea that some regionalist feelings are based on the fact that they don’t feel like part of a region with a specific name. Alicante and Castellón residents, for example, who resent being called "Valencians" because they don’t feel like they are from Valencia. And I fear that perhaps similar things could happen in states that are also named after a single city or region like Granada or León. Knowing if that is a common feeling or a marginal one would help me decide on that.

Version 3.0 will take a little longer than this one since I will accompany it with "fake infoboxes" from Wikipedia on hypothetical states.

And with this and a cake, time to see where they hit me this time: v