Any non US electoral maps?
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The Seventh Party System: Part XXIX
Map of the United States
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
Part XXIV - Chersonesus
Part XXV - Canal Zone Territory
Part XXVI - West Florida
Part XXVII - Missouri
Part XXVIII - Colorado
Trinidad and Tobago is one of the more interesting states in the Union, being the first non-mainland state to join the Union in the 1833 as part of the Metropotamia compromise to keep the balance of power between free and slave states. Yet ever since the state overthrew its white oppressors during the Civil war the state has been the least white state in the entire union, being only 0.8% white. As such, Trinidad and Tobago is an often forgotten state, much like Hawaii and Alaska are, and has formed an entirely unique identity.
To fully understand this identity, one needs to go back to its origins, as a Napoleonic colony which was liberated by the United States during the First World War. While at the time it had a small population of barely 30,000 when the free state of Metropotamia petitioned to join the union as a free state southerners rushed to move slaves into the territory to bolster its population and allow for its admission as a slave state. As such, with a white population of little over 4,000 the island became the least white state at the time, a fact which drove abolitionists crazy as it allowed each of those 4,000 men many times the voting power men of even a small Northern state like Vermont.
Given this large disparity, soon after the Confederacy was formed it came as no surprise to the North to see the blacks of Trinidad rebel, and while the first rebellion failed after Union ships managed to sneak in firearms to the island all the Confederates of the island where soon kicked off, leaving only half the state's two main islands in white hands. Tobago, on the other hand, with its much smaller population, was able to become the main hub of the Confederate's Caribbean fleet, remaining a thorn in the Union's side until the end of the war.
And despite the efforts of some former Confederate states, mainly Louisiana and Florida, to gain Tobago for their "common values," under the staunch abolitionist Ulysses Grant the island was put once again under the authority of Trinidad, resulting its entire white population emigrating to the American mainland, knowing very well the dozens of different ways whites were executed following the second Trinidad revolt. As such, much like the state of Lincoln, Trinidad and Tobago remained a deep blue Republican state throughout the late 1800s and into the early 1900s, until the National Union party began to pick up black votes during their consolidation of power in the 1930s.
Thus switching from a deep blue state to a deep gray state in little under a decade the state was horrified to see how the Conservative Revolution lead to the repeal of the Civil Rights Act, and its people united under one common party, the People's Congress. Standing in solidarity with Labor against the conservatives' horrible lack of empathy the party caucused exclusively with Labor until 1980, when the Republican-Labor coalition put an end to Democratic rule. While such a move was celebrated by most for its reinstatement of the Civil Rights Act, among the hardliners of the People's Congress who had been brought up during FDR's time, cooperation of a faction of the former Conservative party was tantamount to treason and the People's Congress cut all ties with Labor.
This cutting of ties of with Labor lead to the split of the People's Congress, as a the People's Congress (Christian) was formed by the right wing of the PC who believed in the virtue and supported the Black Baptist Bloc's position of strategic alliance with Labor and the Republicans for the greater good. Of course when the Republican-Labor coalition fell in 1982 and the Republican's right wing allies gained a majority in Congress this only angered the People's Congress hardliners even more, who drove a wedge between themselves as the PC(C) to monopolize the state's voteshare for themselves.
The People's Congress second split came in 1989 when party bosses kicked Governor Panday from power after he started giving rights to the Indians and mixed race minorities of the state, who were ironically treated worse than blacks in the Deep South. The Indian minority, brought to the island during the 1860s after the black leadership demanded someone besides African-Americans work the sugar plantations were treated as psuedo by the freed slaves and when India gained independence tens of thousands of them fled back to their homeland. As such, when Panday was kicked out the party in 1989 he started his own party called the People's Congress (Panday), to capitalize not only on his personal charisma but also his Indian heritage.
Despite all this, the mainline People's Congress still remained strong, only losing the election of 1990 to Panday's party before he was brought down on corruption charges and his party collapsed into pure minority politics.
Things got even dicier for the mainline PC, however, when the People's Congress (Tobago) split off in 1997 due to non-ideological reasons as the island's politicians felt that their county wasn't getting enough funds from the state's coffers. In order to give their movement legitimacy the splinter party created a mythos of Tobagonian resilience, claiming that because of the hardships the island faced under its Confederates oppressors that the island's inhabitants were sturdier than those of Trinidad, ignoring the fact that most of the island's modern population is descended from Trinidadians.
Finally, the latest splinter for the People's Congress to undergo occurred in 2005 when the People's Congress (Secular) was formed. After the mainline PC was forced to make an alliance with the PC(C) in order to stay in power following a surge in PC(P) support, secular left-wing elements of the party split off and demanded that the People's Congress never ally with the socially conservative PC(C). After a whole eight MPs left the People's Congress the governing coalition fell after apart and special elections had to be held later that year, which the mainline PC won decisively.
Yet, with the People's Congress continuing to routinely win over 50% of the vote after the Second Great Depression had many wishing for stability many thought that the People's Congress might rule over the state forever. Then the 2015 election rolled around, with both the PC(S) and PC(C) gaining massively, forcing the People's Congress into another coalition with the centrist Christians again. While most of the mainline PC party bosses where confident of a repeat of 2005, the opposite occurred, with the People's Congress losing over a dozen seats, ending their 25 year reign and reducing the party to a measly 21 seats, the least it has ever had in the party's history.
Now with the corrupt party bosses of the mainline PC ousted hope has restored to Trinidad and Tobago with a more healthy multiparty democracy looking to be the state's future.
Government:
People's Congress (Secular) - A socially liberal, left wing splinter of the People's Congress created in 2005, it is the newest splinter of the PC and is right now itself most successful, quadrupling its seat count in the course of four years. The party also possesses a large anti-establishment vibe and has an overwhelming majority of the state's youth vote who see the People's Congress as a corrupt and old institution, just like how in other states the Greens despise Labor. It is also the only party to have widespread support across all races, with the party having a stated goal of ending the racial tensions between the black majority and the mixed and Indian minorities.
People's Congress (Panday) - The party for minorities, it has been the number one enemy of the mainline People's Congress since its creation in 1989. However, much like the Black Baptist Bloc of South Carolina it rarely ever is successful, having only won a single term on its own, and now a second term with the help of its allies. Dedicated to the protection of multiculturalism, it protests how not only Indians, but also those of mixed descent such as the Trigueno and Mulatto, are treated. However it also has its flaws, being endemic of corruption, a fact which lead to its loss of a significant chunk of seats to the PC(S) in recent elections.
Supply:
People's Justice Party - One of the few parties in Trinidad and Tobago which is unrelated to the People's Congress, the PJP is a Muslim minority party formed to represent the interests of Muslim Africans in the state. Although Islam was first introduced into the state by Bengal Indians the religion soon became more popular among poor blacks and with many Indians converting to Hinduism in the 90s to show their solidarity with Panday Trinidadian and Tobagonian Muslims are now near exclusively black. Having been judged harshly by the People's Congress after the war in the United Arab Republic, they soon mobilized into a solid minority party and their coalition with the PC(S) and PC(P) has been the first time in history that the PJP has gotten into a governing coalition, subtracting those who were elected in fusion with the Liberal party in New York.
Opposition:
People's Congress - The natural governing party of Trinidad and Tobago, they represent are the establishment party of the state, occupying a center left position that is similar to that of Labor. And despite the party's initial vow to never ally with Labor again, ever since the 90s the People's Congress has adopted a conciliatory tone towards Labor, though their party leaders still remain pragmatically independent and just like the Reformed National Union hold growing reservations over Labor's alliance with the Progressives.
People's Congress (Christian) - The closest thing to a right wing party that you will find in Trinidad and Tobago, the party's policies are near identically to those of the Black Baptist Bloc, emphasizing the need for welfare and religion to uphold the righteous black race in their struggle against the whites, and in the case of Trinidad and Tobago, the Indians. Criticizing the corrupt bureaucratic nature of the People's Congress and calling them heathens for supporting abortion they nevertheless were pragmatic enough to realize that an alliance with the mainline PC was better than having the PC(P) or PC(S) get in power, an alliance that may still work out in their favor as they slowly pull the mainline PC closer to their socially conservative values.
Movement for Assemblies of the People - One of the two communist parties in the left wing state of Trinidad and Tobago, they focus mainly on minority rights and condemn the "imperialist" People's Congress. While their strength has faded in recent years due to the rise of the PC(S) the party is still widely popular among Dougla who remember the founder of the MAP, musician turned activist Claytis Ali, a Dougla himself, who struggled nonviolently against American imperialism and was later executed in 1971 by the governor of Trinidad and Tobago for suggesting that the US normalize relations with Guevarist Gran Colombia.
People's Congress (Tobago) - The smallest splinter party of the People's Congress, they are little more than a cry for attention from the residents of Tobago, who want more resources to be drawn from Trinidad towards their island. And while the party has always held a plurality over the county they rarely get more than two seats as most of its residents vote for either the mainline PC or the PC(C).
New Jewel Movement - The smaller of the two communist parties in Trinidad and Tobago, they are a more radical version of MAP, splitting off from the main party in 1983 by those who wished to go down the path of the Frente de Sandista de Liberacion and take up arms against the American government. Although the movement was swiftly and harshly crushed the people of the movement's home county in Rio Claro still hold a grudge over how the US Southern fleet carpet bombed the area, thinking it was a Gran Colombian invasion, resulting in the county still possessing a third of its pre-1980s population to this day.
