The final, and most populated, state - Media California!
There'll be other stuff down the line, but this one will be the final "regular state update".
The Seventh Party System: Part LXVII
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
Part XXIX - Trinidad and Tobago
Part XXX - Pennsylvania
Part XXXI - Wisconsin
Part XXXII - Lincoln
Part XXXIII - Deseret
Part XXXIV - Platte
Part XXXV - Kiribati
Part XXXVI - New Mexico
Part XXXVII - Maine
Part XXXVIII - Alaska
Part XXXIX - Hamilton
Part XXXX - Mississippi
Part XXXXI - North Virginia
Part XXXXII - Bioko
Part XXXXIII - Hawaii
Part XXXXIV - Louisiana
Part XXXXV - Seward
Part XXXXVI - Illinoia
Part XXXXVII - Georgia
Part XXXXVIII - Columbia
Part XXXXIX - Maryland
Part L - Texas
Part LI - District of Columbia
Part LII - Vermont
Part LIII - Yazoo
Part LIV - Jefferson
Part LV - Virgin Islands
Part LVI - Washington
Part LVII - Puerto Rico
Part LVIII - Kentucky
Part LIX - Massachusetts
Part LX - South Virginia
Part LXI - Arkansas
Part LXII - Saratoga
Part LXIII - Connecticut
Part LXIV - Nickajack
Part LXV - Indiana
Part LXVI - Polypotamia
Part LXVII - Media California
Labor Coalition
Republicans
Democrats and Social Credit
Hispanos Unidos and Allies
Political Positions of State Governments
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Media California is a juggernaut of a state, being the most populated state in the Union with close to 30 million inhabitants. It is also an extremely diverse state, with Non-Hispanic whites making up around 32% of the population and Hispanics making up over 47% of the population. Being the largest state on the "Left Coast" Media California is very much a Progressive leaning state, however adaptions by the more conservative elements have allowed for the state to be more competitive than its northern or southern counterparts.
Similarly to Alta California the Republican party was the dominant force in the state prior to the 1980s, not only among rural whites but also suburban whites in San Bernardino, Orange County, and San Diego. However, while the 1980s was an era of national domination for the Grand Old Party, which regularly won elections in Midwestern states like Assenisipia and even Upper South states like Kentucky the rise of the Progressive party lead to their decline on what would by the 1990s be known as the "Left Coast." The inability of Republican free market economics to solve the AIDS crisis, newfound concern for the environment which went against the GOP's ideal of cutting regulations, as well as growing immigration from both Latin America and Asia all combined to lead to a sharp decline in the Republican parties of the West Coast and their subsequent replacement by the Progressives.
While the death spiral of the Republican party in Media California began in 1982 with the election of Tom Bradley it was the election of 1998 put the final nail in the coffin. This election saw the GOP attempt to stir up anti-immigrant sentiment by proposing a ban on any state assistance to illegal immigrants. Such an exclusionary act in a state whose economy was built on the backs of immigrants proved to be extremely unpopular and resulted in the Republican party losing dozens of seats, ending up with only seven representatives left in the House. Now on the brink of extinction decided to do the unthinkable and entered talks with Hispanos Unidos to discuss merging their two parties to form a viable right-wing alternative to the Progressive hegemony. Seeing how the Progressives had by this point in time ruled Media California uninterrupted for 16 years the name for their new party was chosen to be the Progressive Conservatives, showing to voters that they were moderates who still wanted to progress society forward while at the same time holding certain conservative values.
The new Progressive Conservatives immediately began to surge with the FPTP seats in the Senate particularly benefiting the united conservative front far more than the divided one that had existed before, and in the 2002 election they were finally able to take back the governor's office with the help of the Democrats and Asian Action. Before they came into power, however, the Progressives decided to take a page out of the New Mexican government and implement language boards that would include every language which over one percent of the population spoke. The Progressives believed that with their diverse voter base, especially among Asians, this would lead to the Language Boards becoming a solid lock on their power, and thus not only were language boards given one (or two for the largest two) senators but also given a separate veto power with just a simple majority of total Language Board reps, which given the disproportional method of representatives gave great power to smaller languages. However, contrary to the Progressives' belief these language boards were not a solid lock for them, as not only did individual language board parties develop but also the Progressive Conservatives and even Democrats began to adapt to this new situation and began to contest the LB seats. Throughout the 00s the PCs continued to grow, making the Hispanic board, through its Hispanos Unidos affiliate, Arabic board, and Armenian boards strongholds of power, and even gaining an absolute majority in the House in the 2008 election, though their voteshare eventually collapsed again following the Second Great Depression. Since then the Progressives have continued their rule as Media California's largest party, but as the Second Great Depression continues without much improvement the Progressives' support has been slowly dripping away again.
Just as in other parts of the "Left Coast" the 2018 election saw the Progressive party taking major losses, with much of the support going to the Progressive Conservatives, but also to Asian Action and Partido Revolucionario as racial tensions have begun to flare up by those who blame other races for their economic problems. This resulted in the Progressive Green government losing their majority in the House, though they did manage to maintain it in the Senate. Thus, while the Progressive Conservatives did manage to gain triple digit seats for the first time since the Second Great Depression a Progressive lead government was still inevitable, even if it might take some difficult negotiation. Finally, after a few months the Progressives managed to reach a supply and confidence agreement with the Partido Revolucionario, giving labor unions more bargaining power and special funding to Chicano non-profits in exchange for their votes. However, this alliance remains fragile, with a vocal minority of Partido Revolucionario being opposed to any compromise with the "colonizer" whites and Asians and many of the Progressive black and Asian members being unsettled by the idea of working with ethnic separatist. Yet with no other combinations being mathematically possible those unhappy with the deal will have be content at this supply and confidence agreement.
Government:
Progressive/Progresista/Progresibo/Jinbu/Al-Taqaddum/etc - The largest party in Media California, in this election they only narrowly came ahead of the Progressive Conservative with 105 seats to the PC's 100. However with their reliable base of Southeast Asians, African-Americans, and urbanites generally they still remain a formidable force that has been able to still cling to power.
Greens/Verdes - A fairly left wing branch of the greens, while they may be slightly to the left of the Progressives on Environmental issues they are behind on racial issues and the majority of their voterbase consists of middle class socially liberal Anglo whites. Due to their close political positions the party has become very closely linked with the Progressives, and ever since the Second Great Depression have become more or less the richer and whiter extension of the Progressive party.
Supply:
Partido Revolucionario - A party for working class Latinos, the Media California Partido Revolucionario is unique for having a large section of ethnic nationalists who believe in the creation of a Chicano state called Aztlan. Aztlan would cover all the US states formerly controlled by Mexico and be populated by only the Mestizos and Indios who hold an ancestral right to the land, while all the "colonizer" whites, blacks, and Asians would be deported back to their home countries. In the past this radical Chicano section drove most Mexican-Americans in Media California away to more conciliatory parties like the Progressives or Hispanos Unidos, but with the Second Great Depression continuing without an end in sight more and more Mexican-Americans have begun to support this Chicano movement and resent the privileged positions of Asians and whites. However, with the Progressive government now giving millions of dollars in grant money to Chicano cultural institutions that praise the history of Mestizos and Indios in the American Southwest the more moderate separatists have all calmed down for the time being.
Opposition:
Progressive Conservative/Conservador Progresista/Konserbatibo Progresibo/Jinbu Baoshou/Al-Taqaddum Al-Muhafiz/etc - The second largest party in Media California, they are a combination party of the Republicans and Hispanos Unidos providing a moderately conservative opposition to the Progressives. They are also descendant from the Dewey tradition of Republicans and are welcoming of immigrants and have adapted to become even more welcoming than the Dewey Republicans with their open embrace of a multilingual Media California. Their main support base comes from the rural and suburban regions of the state, with strongholds in Southern Orange County and the plains north of Los Angeles.
Democrats/Democratas/Demokratiko/Minzhu/Al-Dymqr/etc - The other main conservative party in Media California, they are dominated by the Pact of Christ which believes in religious conservatism over racial chauvinism. This has allowed the party to capture the votes of Christians of all backgrounds, though most of their support still comes from white Anglos.
Partido de Dios - A party for Protestant Hispanics, they preach the evils of the white man, heretical Catholics, and godless socialists. They have managed to carve out a sizable stronghold in the city of Tijuana and have declared several barrios of the city to be "LGBT-free."
Asian Action - The party for centrist Asian Americans, their voter base consists of richer Asians who often come from the more developed inner sphere of the East Asian Prosperity Sphere as well as the EAPS allied state of Bharat. Priding itself upon moral purity and fiscal discipline they find themselves more or less allied with the Progressive Conservatives when it comes to most issues except for the fact that Asian Action continues to uncritically uphold the EAPS's every action.
United Left/Izquierda Unida/Nagkakaisang Kaliwa/Lianhe Zuoyi/Al-Mutahidat Al-Yasariu - The main leftist party of America the United Left consists of an united front of everyone from democratic socialists to Trotskyists to Marxist-Leninist-Guevarists to Anarchists. The only major faction excluded from the party are Marxist-Leninists, due to the mass unpopularity of the USSR among Americans across the political spectrum. Nevertheless, most of the United Left representatives uphold revolution as their end goal and refuse to enter any bourgeois governments, except in the case of their Alaskan affiliates. While a plurality of their members are Latinx they also have significant support among blacks, whites, and Asians with all of their factions agreeing to a common platform of racial equality on the basis of intersectionality.
First People's Party/Partido de Primeros Pueblos - The party for centrist Native Americans, in the state of Media California, just as neighboring Baja California and Arizona, the majority of Native Americans prefer to speak Spanish over English, thus leading to them contesting on the Spanish Language Board as opposed to the English Language Board as their New Mexican branch does. While Native Americans do compose a somewhat significant proportion of the population at 1.9%, due to the prevailing two party system that has arisen between the Progressives and Progressive Conservatives their party is often ignored and forgotten.
Black Panther Party - A black nationalist and socialist party, they managed to double their seat share in the House following the 2018 election with more and more African Americans, especially among Millennials and Gen Z, seeing the Progressives as too weak and corrupt to get anything done for the black community. However their support still remains rather low as the Progressive governments have been able to prevent any race riots from breaking out in the city of Los Angeles unlike what has occurred in other cities such as St Louis, Phoenix, and Chicago.
Phalanges (Al-Kataeb) - A party for Lebanese Maronite ultra-nationalists, they draw upon the ideology of the Spanish general who failed to overthrow the Spanish Republic in a 1936 coup attempt, Falangism. Under such an ideology the main Phalanges party back in Beirut turned Lebanon into an ethnostate for the descendants of the "Lebanese people" who they define to only include Maronite Arabs, expelling all Sunnis, Shias, Greek Catholics, Armenians, and Druze from their nation. However, following the overthrow of the United Arab Republic by the American government in 2001 Lebanon has once again become a battlefield as their Phalangist government has unsuccessfully attempted to not only keep out UAR refugees but also annex UAR lands under the claim that it had been originally occupied by the ancestors of the "Lebanese people", the Phoenicians, and so the Lebanese people were only now rightly retaking what land the Arab invaders had stolen from them thousands of years ago. In America their politics remain extremely right wing in terms of social and economic issues while on foreign policy they constantly lobby for the US government to re-intervene in the UAR on the behalf of the Lebanese side of that multi-dimensional civil war.
Armenian Revolutionary Front (Hay Yeghapvokhakan Dashnaktsutyun) - A party for Armenian nationalists, unlike their Phalanges counterparts they occupy the left side of the political spectrum, upholding a democratic socialist ideology and believing in the freeing of the Armenian SSR from the shackles of "Soviet state capitalism." They also hold a very big grudge with the Phalanges, for their systematic removal of all Armenians from Lebanon, an ethnic cleansing that lead hundreds of thousands of Armenians to flee to America, many of which congregated around the city of Glendale in Los Angeles county, to the point where that city is now 68.2% Armenian. During the 00s the ARF was temporarily banned as a political party following a FBI investigation that found top ARF politicians siphoning campaign funds to the Armenian Secret Army that had killed American servicemen in the UAR but following the lift of their ban the ARF has slowly been able to rebuild support among the Armenian diaspora.
Hispanos Unidos - An affiliate party of the Progressive Conservatives, they run solely in Media California's Spanish Language Board for the purposes of trying to unite all Hispanics in the state under their banner. Their support comes mainly from Hispanics in rural and suburban areas, as well as more upper class or socially conservative Hispanics.
Kuomintang - The Asian Action affiliate for the Mandarin Language Board, they take their name after the ruling party of the Chinese provinces of the East Asian Prosperity Sphere. Being a subsidiary of Asian Action they differ only from the main policy platform by emphasizing the rights for Chinese people and Mandarin speakers, which are far more numerous than Cantonese speakers in Media California.
Daehan Gukmin Dang - The Asian Action affiliate for the Korean Language Board, they take their name after the ruling party in the Korean provinces of the East Asian Prosperity Sphere. Like with the KMT they follow Asian Action policies but also tend to show more support for Christianity given the fact that most Koreans are Protestant.
People's Justice Party (Hizb Eadalat Al-Shaeb/Hizb Eadalat Khalq) - A Muslim anti-imperialist party that claims to be left wing but also has troubling links to Islamists powers, they are popular among those who are or sympathize with the Muslim refugees of the UAR civil war as well as those Persians who hate the current Persian monarchy and wish to have an Islamic Republic installed there instead.
Nacionalista - The Asian Action affiliate for the Tagalog Language Board, they take their name after the ruling party in the Filipino provinces of the East Asian Prosperity Sphere. They are also very similar to Daehan Gukmin Dang because many Filipinos are Catholic.
Forward (Xiangqian) - An eccentric party founded by the prolific entrepreneur Elon Yang, it is a political party which claims to be neither left, nor right, but forward. They fight not only for greater rights of Chinese people in the state of Media California, but also for a Universal Basic Income that Yang claims would help everyone in the state. Unlike Asian Action, Forward is a bit more skeptical of the East Asian Prosperity Sphere, however they still agree with the Progressives and Progressive Conservatives that trade with this bloc is crucial and beneficially to the American economy.
Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang - The Asian Action affiliate for the Vietnamese Language Board, they take their name after the ruling party in the Filipino provinces of the East Asian Prosperity Sphere. Like with the other Asian affiliate parties they follow Asian Action policies but also tend to show more support for Buddhism given the fact that most Vietnamese are Buddhist.
People's Mujahedin of Iran (Mojahedin-e Khlaq-e Iran) - A Shia Islamist Marxist party that claims communism was actually first invented by the Third Shia Imam Husayn ibn Ali in 680 CE during his stand against Sunni oppression. They have consistently advocated for the overthrow of the Kingdom of Persia, which they criticize for being an authoritarian and secular monarchy backed by American imperialists and wish to establish an Islamic Democratic People's Republic in its place where all will be equal under Sharia Law. They have many ties to the Islamic Republic of Tyre and are suspected by many to be funneling money into Tyre backed Shia jihadists, but this is a claim the PMI fervently denies.
Credit for the basemap goes to Chicxulub.
