The Seventh Party System: Part XXIV
Part I - Metropotamia
Part II - Alta California
Part III - North Carolina
Part IV - New Jersey
Part V - Adams
Part VI - Alabama
Part VII - Rhode Island
Part VIII - Sequoyah
Part IX - Assenisipia
Part X - East Florida
Part XI - Tennessee
Part XII - Kansas
Part XIII - Dakota
Part XIV - Arizona
Part XV - Delaware
Part XVI - Oregon
Part XVII - Ozark
Part XVIII - New Hampshire
Part XIX - Western Connecticut
Part XX - New York
Part XXI - Santo Domingo
Part XXII - South Carolina
Part XXIII - Baja California
Chersonesus is another former labor state which has become a victim of the Social Credit movement, having been the first state to have a social credit plurality, and now the first state to have a social credit majority.
While not as much of a Labor stronghold as neighboring Metropotamia, Chersonesus had for most of its first post-Nixon been a Labor safe state, only having once gone to the Republicans in 2004 through a coalition with Constitution and Social Credit as well. Of course this coalition quickly fell apart when the Constitution party and Social Credit had a falling out, leading to an early election in 2005 that saw Labor regain its majority.
However in 2011, two years after the start of the Second Great Depression which caused the state to reach over 30% unemployment, the people demanded a change from Labor, leading to a Social Credit surge that saw them gaining the plurality of the vote, making Chersonesus the first state in which they had ever gained a plurality. After a Social Credit-Republican alliance lead to a reduction of the unemployment to only 8% over the course of four years, largely due to a massive infrastructure bill that put tens of thousands of Chersonesusians to work, people all across the country say that Social Credit was a viable alternative to Labor, a fact which contributed greatly to the Social Credit surge of 2016.
Thus, in 2017 Social Credit was rewarded for their policies with being granted a solid majority in government, making Chersonesus the first state to ever have a Social Credit majority. Without the Republicans shackling them down Social Credit plans to extend their economic policies even further, launching massive corporate taxes on all major business to pay for a "National Dividend" which guarantees a certain percentage of the state's GDP be given to its residents free of charge. Morally, Social Credit has also announced plans to launch a new era of sin taxes, adding over 100% to the prices of everything from alcohol and cigarettes to movie tickets and video games in order to reform society into a Christian utopia. While no one knows if the "Utopian experiment" in Chersonesus will work one thing is for sure, the nation's eyes will be on this small state of 1.7 million.
Government:
Social Credit - A socially conservative but economically left wing party the organization's wacky ideology was once denounced as lunacy by both the left and right who thought that they could never be a formidable force. However through successful marketing to Labor's white working class base, providing them a legitimate alternative which doesn't betray either their hearts or their pockets the party has seen an incredible rise over the past decade. And unlike in Saratoga where Social Credit rules in solely the coalition, the majority that they have won allows them to test run their plans of a true Utopia, though even the party's leaders exercise caution over the experiment's success as federal courts have struck down their initial plans to levy tariffs on other states and create a Chersonesusian currency.
Opposition:
Republicans - The party of Big Business, they were recently growing due to their support of the Social Credit coalition, however with Social Credit now possessing a majority the GOP leadership fears that they may never get a chance to be a part of government again.
Labor - Originally the state's natural ruling party, Social Credit's rise has left them with only their diehard supporters and minority voters as their recent loss of 5 seats has doomed them to irrelevancy.
Constitution- The party of hardcore social conservatism and economic liberalism, their usually small membership of Dutch Protestants has grown recently as many conservative Republicans join their ranks, believing that the only way to fight religious populism is with religious populism.
Credit for the basemap goes to Chicxulub.