How would you Balkanize the United States?

If you were to Balkanize the United States, that is divide it into smaller countries based upon culture, religion, race, ideology, or any other such lines how would you do it? For me their is some obvious ones. The South, where I live is a distinct culture and nation which is different and diametrically opposed to the rest of the United States in various ways. It has its own strong national, cultural, and historic identity and should be a separate country. So I would have a southern nation composed of the states of South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas, Arkansas, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, West Virginia, Oklahoma, North Florida, and the Ozarks of Missouri. New England is a second region which has a common cohesive identity, culture, and politics diametrically opposed to the South in every way so I'd create a country composed of the states of Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine, and Rhode Island. Alaska would be given its independence as a separate country as well as Hawaii. The Republic of Lakota would become an official country. I'd give southern Florida to African Americans as their own country. The Appalachian Mountains in the southern nation would become its own state either independent or as an autonomous region in the new confederacy. California would be given its independence as a separate country. The Pacific Northwest bio region would become its own country called Cascadia of course. The City of New York would probably be given its independence as a city state. ...And I'm not quite sure about everything else.  

Alternatively I'd just dissolve the federal government entirely and allow the state governments to form their own unions.