Borders could be drawn organically by culture rather than imperial power

Evidence

We try to imagine more enlightened cartographies: a map of the Americas with no borders; a map turned upside down; or one in which the countries have borders that are organically drawn by geography, culture, and immigration, and not by the capricious hands of economic domination and political bravado. (Guillermo Gomez-Pena, In Chicana and Chicano scholarship and cultural productions, the US-Mexico border zone is conceptualized not only as a point of multiple migrations, but also as a site informing and housing the various identity formations for this ethnoracial group. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2468

Categorization

• FICTION: Worldbuilding spark: a setting where national borders follow culture and geography, not conquest.
• XREF: connects to: Border enforcement devolves to private groups claiming character-based national belonging. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1759