The Alphabetic Bouts of Cartography: Discussion & Entries

[TheSevenLeggedFallyDowner]

I just did an election map for D. But why not, I can do another one.

[Turquoise Blue]

Alright... Here's the names I'm planning to use... (I'm wikifying it as well.)

Henry M. Jackson/Kathleen Sebelius (Socialist)
Joshua Blackford/James Rhodes (Democratic)
Eugene McCarthy/Morgan Reynolds (Republican)
Raymond Pinkard/George C. Wallace (Dixie Alone)
Joe Clark/Alec Pomeroy (Bloc Canada)

(I know that Wallace and Pinkard is ineligible. The Dixie Alone Party doesn't give a shit about "Yankee laws". Pomeroy's more moderate now he grew up.)

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by Turquoise Blue

Alright... Here's the names I'm planning to use... (I'm wikifying it as well.)

Heh, this kind of thing really is your bread and butter, isn't it?

[Turquoise Blue]

Originally Posted by metastasis_d

Heh, this kind of thing really is your bread and butter, isn't it?

Yep. If I win, I want to be called... "Empress of E". By the way, map done, starting with the wiki.

[Ares96]

Originally Posted by TheSevenLeggedFallyDowner

Here's my entry.

Another thing: I love how the Scandinavist party is abbreviated PUS.

[d32123]

Once I get settled in at school I promise I will make an awesome map for this round.

[TheSevenLeggedFallyDowner]

Originally Posted by Ares96

Another thing: I love how the Scandinavist party is abbreviated PUS.

Quite frankly I expected to get more comments on the Liberals being called FLU.

[Turquoise Blue]

Originally Posted by d32123

Once I get settled in at school I promise I will make an awesome map for this round.

Oh dear... My right to the Empire of E is under threat...

[d32123]

A bit odd that for the "Election" round, the winner would be crowned Empress/Emperor, no?

[Ares96]

I'd say either "Exarch" or "Episkopos" would be better. Simply because they're more esoteric and Byzantine.

[Turquoise Blue]

Originally Posted by d32123

A bit odd that for the "Election" round, the winner would be crowned Empress/Emperor, no?

Well, this is the only round I have a remote chance of winning, so I want the most awesome title. I don't want "Electioneer of E"!

[Ulster]

Hmm, elections is it? I'll have to give this one a bit of thought. That Republican green is making me think of giving something with an Irish theme a go

[Kaiphranos]

Originally Posted by Ulster

Hmm, elections is it? I'll have to give this one a bit of thought. That Republican green is making me think of giving something with an Irish theme a go

Republican green? Or Islamic green? Or Green green? Or something else entirely? All up to you...

[Ares96]

Originally Posted by Kaiphranos

Republican green? Or Islamic green? Or Green green? Or something else entirely? All up to you...

Obviously, it's the Green of the grand and glorious Consolidated Revolutionary Socialist Party of All the Russias (Greenshevik)!

[Ulster]

Originally Posted by Kaiphranos

Republican green? Or Islamic green? Or Green green? Or something else entirely? All up to you...

I'm an Irish Catholic from a predominately Nationalist area of Northern Ireland - that's Shinner green all the way

[Turquoise Blue]

Originally Posted by Kaiphranos

Republican green? Or Islamic green? Or Green green? Or something else entirely? All up to you...

I decided to go with an alternate Southern color, as I did in my A Chip off the Old Block TL. The green comes from... Um... Some CSA troops wore green in the ACW, right?

[Turquoise Blue]

Alright, here's the entry. Info up later. Do you think this could win?

The United States presidential election of 1976 was one of the most interesting elections ever in the history of the United States. The incumbent president, John F. Kennedy, announced that he would not run again for the presidency, so the conservative front was divided between the Democrats, Bloc Canada in the North and Dixie Alone (that racist neo-Freedomite party) in the South. How did it come to this? For this, we can blame the United States' idiotic decision to annex the still very Freedomite South in part of the Union. It is worthwhile to remember that the people who advocated re-unification back before the Second Great War was called "Lost Causers". Yet the annexation went ahead.

And the USA's occupation of Canada and subsequent admission could only lead to nationalism, which a party could easily take advantage. One did, Bloc Canada. The hate of the Socialists led the Republicans to become the main lefty party in the Canadian Plains, and do far better elsewhere in Canada. In the Canadian Plains, the Bloc grew as a nationalist, conservative alternative to the Republicans. The Socialists and Democrats would always be third and fourth place there. Due to President Humphrey's "Agricultural Bill" damaging the farmers in the Plains, support for the Republicans there grew to a dizzy height, and maintained at that height even after Humphrey left office and "JFK" was sworn in. The Republicans was at their best here, and Missouri grew to be a swing state between the Dems and the GOP.

The Democrats were in trouble, as the rightist vote were split heavily, and they could expect to win less then 100 electoral votes. They nominated the charismatic Joshua Blackford (son of Socialists Hosea and Flora Blackford) for president. With Blackford, they resisted the attempts by the Republicans to eclipse them (although they would achieve it just four years later) In the polls, the Blackford/Rhodes ticket seemed to minimize any splitting, but then the Socialist primaries finished and Henry M. Jackson/Kathleen Sebelius was announced as their ticket. Jackson was well known to Dems, for being able to take some of the lefty Democrats (called Red Dog Democrats) into the Socialist camp. After four years of JFK's controversy, the people could be attracted to the "New Socialism" (essentially more lefty liberals) Jackson proposed.

The Democrats hoped to stop all progressive splitting, by nominating Blackford (a Red Dog Democrat) but the rise of the Republicans and Jackson being the Socialists' ticket ruined all possibility of that, and a Red Dog Democrat means that less conservatives would go blue...

The major regional parties (Dixie Alone in the South, Bloc Canada in the North and Golden Dawn in the West) expected great results for them this election, and for Dixie Alone and Bloc Canada, they got their best results ever, due to a fragmentation of the right-wing vote. For Golden Dawn, a liberal party, their popular vote utterly collapsed and they got less then 1.0% of the vote. The Socialists swept the West and North Mexico (as the Mexican states of Baja, Sonora and Chihuahua were called) contributing to their landslide.

The presidential debates (four of them, plus two veep debates) went ahead when all the choices were confirmed. The first one was on domestic affairs. Blackford espoused a "progressive conservative" approach which he went in detail. Jackson replied "Truly, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree." and claimed it was "Socialism in all but name." McCarthy, the Republican nomination, said "But your party is not socialist any longer. Thanks to your New Socialism, your party is liberal. To Americans, if you want real Liberalism, vote Republican. If you want to vote for a party that twisted their ideology to keep in power, vote Socialist." Jackson took this hard and hit back with "We have experience. There is a reason your party failed to win all previous elections but two." "Dredging the past? That was almost a century ago. We Republicans have moved on, redefined ourselves as the party of Liberalism. Now that the wind is blowing our way, you betray your principles, take upon a cause alien to you, all for power." This debate was widely considered to be won by McCarthy. Socialists against the New Socialism idea was encouraged by this.

The Dixie Alone Party participated in the second one, which took place in Madison, Georgia. This debate was about the Irish Question, a subject deliberately chosen to weaken the Dixie Alone Party. But they rose to the challenge and espoused an isolationist streak, while the Socialists and Democrats supported intervention into Ireland, and the Republicans adopted a "Wait and see" approach.

The veep debates had all six parties (DEM, SOC, GOP, DXA, BCA, GLD) send their vice-presidential nominations there. Kathleen Sebelius performed brilliantly, fending off the elderly Jim Rhodes and the impulsive Morgan Reynolds' attempts at defeating her in the debates. George Wallace was escorted off after he defended his party's neo-Freedomite views (to the shock of many Dixie Aloners, which then protested) Alec Pomeroy argued brilliantly for an independent Canada, using his own childhood experiences and tales of occupation to convince many. The present Republic of Canada hails him as one of their great heroes and a Father of the Nation, because he finished the transformation of Canadian independence sentiment from one of terrorism to one of peace. Daniel Proudmire (the veep of Golden Dawn) was boring and talked too much, that some called him the "Californian Chatterbox".

The third debate was in Toronto, and because of this, the Bloc took part. The debate was about relations with Germany and with the Objectivist regimes in Africa. Jackson argued for closer relations with Germany, but distancing from the "evil, vile, Objectivist nations." Blackford argued for an wary relation with Germany and closer relations with the Objectivist nations. McCarthy argued for wary relations with both. Clark agreed with McCarthy.

The fourth and final debate included all main parties, even Golden Dawn (which fall were obvious by this point) and it was about the economy. Traditionally, Socialist governments replied by nationalizing a lot, and Democrat governments by either privatizing, or stopping nationalization. This was the first public presidential debate including the Republicans that was about the economy, and the American people would know their stance at last... McCarthy detailed a "Necessary Nationalization" in which nationalization would be done to essential industries in danger of crashing. Jackson was put in a bind, if he opposed this, then his party would turn upon him and he would lose the election. If he supported this, his New Socialist policies would be proved false... He decided to avoid the issue and strike upon the fact this wasn't normally liberal. It worked, and McCarthy was taken aback by the sudden change of question. Blackford spoke softly but was quick to pounce upon McCarthy's Necessary Nationalization, saying "The Republicans has betrayed their liberal base, the Socialists have betrayed their socialist base. We Democrats believe in our base's policies."

The people went to the polls on November 6, 1976, and chose the New Socialist policies of Henry M. Jackson over the Progressive Conservatism of Joshua Blackford and the Necessary Nationalization of Eugene McCarthy, not to mention the blatant racism of Raymond Pinkard and the... Canadian-ness of Joe Clark. Despite the fact that Blackford had a lot of votes, they were scattered and some of those were in the South, where they were outnumbered by the votes for Dixie Alone and Raymond Pinkard. Thus he gained few states and the fewest electoral votes in a long time for the Dems.

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by Turquoise Blue

Alright, here's the entry. Info up later. Do you think this could win?

My god... what has happened to Texas?!

[Turquoise Blue]

Originally Posted by metastasis_d

My god... what has happened to Texas?!

Independent republic.

[Ulster]

Originally Posted by metastasis_d

My god... what has happened to Texas?!

It's TL-191 I believe, so Texas is independent but the north-west is the amputated US state of Houston (which was taken from the Confederacy after the Great War).