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Apalachicola
The State of Apalachicola is a proposed FSD state made up of areas in Northwestern Florida and Eastern West Florida where several attempts to separate from their respective states have taken place. These areas had long been very different than their states as a whole. In the late 19th century, they had been one of the breeding grounds for the Populist Movement, and in the 20th century, they had been a stronghold for the Socialist Party sending several of their members to Congress.

The Apalachicola movement would start in 1931 when a referendum in Florida to move the state's capital from Tallahassee in the Northwest to Jacksonville in the Northeast was successful. Shortly afterwards, citizens from Northwestern Florida would begin to drum up a movement to secede from Florida to create a new state. People from Eastern West Florida, who were also long unsatisfied with their state's politics, would join this movement to create a unified state between the two areas. In 1933, citizens from both areas would meet in Tallahassee to make plans for the new state. They would chose Apalachicola as the name for the state, after the river that forms the border of the two Floridas, and they would choose the old capital of Tallahassee as their new one. Their secession proposal would be submitted to the Florida House of Delegates, but would be firmly rejected in committee even by their local delegates. In West Florida, the proposal would never even come up for a vote. Since then, several county governments in the proposed state have sent secession declarations to their state officials, but all have been ignored.

Throughout the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the support for Apalachicolan secession continued. Since the 30's, the area has moderated in politics somewhat but is still dominated by the Unionist Party while Florida and West Florida have become National strongholds. In the 2012 presidential election, while Jim Webb was losing Florida and West Florida by double digits, he won the counties that make up Apalachicola by 23%. In 2015, a poll done by Florida State University would show that 38% of residents of Apalachicola supported secession while 44% rejected secession, the highest support a poll had ever shown in the area. In 2018, Andrew Gillum, the mayor of Tallahassee, came out in support of secession saying, "It has become incredibly clear that our state legislatures do not have our interests in mind, secession is undoubtedly our best option."

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"The reality of the Second Franco-German War and its awful aftermath was a critical source of creative inspiration for the German director since the inception of cinema, yet the zenith of the genre has long been regarded as G. W. Pabst's 1929 film Anna, starring the iconic Louise Brooks in the eponymous role. The film is a bleak tale of a woman in Munich struggling to survive during the the infamous French occupation of the city, surrounded by the grim and bloody truths of nationalist war. Its infamous and violent ending has lead to great controversy that still rages, yet nobody can deny the striking powerful image of Anna's last encounter with the French solider who has seemingly been birthed by evil itself."

- Excerpt from "None More Morose: German Cinema in the Silent Era"

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The Professor

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X_X said:
"The reality of the Second Franco-German War and its awful aftermath was a critical source of creative inspiration for the German director since the inception of cinema, yet the zenith of the genre has long been regarded as G. W. Pabst's 1929 film Anna, starring the iconic Louise Brooks in the eponymous role. The film is a bleak tale of a woman in Munich struggling to survive during the the infamous French occupation of the city, surrounded by the grim and bloody truths of nationalist war. Its infamous and violent ending has lead to great controversy that still rages, yet nobody can deny the striking powerful image of Anna's last encounter with the French solider who has seemingly been birthed by evil itself."

- Excerpt from "None More Morose: German Cinema in the Silent Era"

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Disraeli2004

Disraeli2004

1st April, 1982. A Phone call is exchanged between Galiteri and Raegan. Raegan has just heard of a top secret Argentinian plan to invade the British colony of the Falkland Islands.

"Mr Galiteri, this invasion will not stand if you go ahead. You can consider the United States not a friend but a foe, and we wil certainly not provide you aid. We are perfectly happy to push your case at the United Nations, but I cannot mortgage our oldest ally and sell them out like this. Mr Galiteri, it's a no."

Galiteri, propped up only by US hospitality, knew he had to comply. The gunboats weren't sent, the fleets remained in port. Galiteri said he had mobilized because of the threat of 'internal communist subversion'. Britain quietly stepped up on the Falkands.

But the islands themselves were unharmed. Life continued, as normal.

Election 1983:

The election saw two unpopulat parties pitted against eachother. Foot was in the lead at the start of the campaign, but the radical manifesto dragged him down in the polls. The alliance capitalised on the unpopularity of both main parties and pitched themselves as the 'party of common sense'. The economic recovery in 1983 saw a moderate incline in the conservative vote, but by election day the SPD-Liberal Alliance was ahead in the polls. On election day, the Conservatives lost 90 seats but remained the largest parties, with the SPD-Liberal Alliance winning the popular vote, the first time since 1906. Despite this, they came a distant third in terms of seats, scoring 117 seats. With the Hung parliament, the future was uncertain.
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The Bloody Summer of 1915
The Bloody Summer of 1915 was an armed insurrection of white Dixians in the summer of 1915 aimed primarily at putting an end to the newfound rights that Black Dixians had gained following the full abolition of slavery in 1899.

During the Populist Era (1886-1916), a widespread movement of social and political activism grew largely made up of poorer whites in Dixie with the aim to elevate their standard of living and to weaken the power of the wealthy landowners and businessmen. One of the main goals of the Populists of the era was the full abolition of slavery claiming that the practice damaged the wages that poor white farmers and factory workers could earn. Earlier efforts largely led by the National Party in the past had restricted it (such as Missouri's and Kentucky's ban on slavery in the 1870's), but those effort failed to fully end the practice. In 1899, Populist President Tom Watson of Georgia would be successful in passing the 12th amendment to the Dixie Constitution to completely abolish slavery, but the question remained as to what would happen with the now freed slaves in the country.

While the Democrats wanted Black Dixians to remain as second class citizens without voting rights, a large subsection of the Populists and many Nationals began advocating for the the freed slaves and the poor whites to ally politically to further their common interests. In several cities and states across the country, Populists helped to give Black Dixians the vote and formed coalitions with the parties and politicians they would elect. These coalitions were called the "Fusionists". The Fusionists began to take power in many areas of the country in the early 20th century, and were instrumental in the 1910 election of Populist President William Jennings Bryan of Missouri.

President Bryan was much more sympathetic to the Fusionists and giving voting rights to Black Dixians than any president before him, but the backlash to President Bryan's support was fierce. Reactionary violence in the form of lynchings and other intimidation techniques against black voters and their Fusionist allies ramped up considerably during this period. The Knights of Dixie, an organization formed to further white supremacy in Dixie, began to gain popularity in the country as well as other paramilitary organizations called the Blue Shirts. In the 1913 midterms, hundreds of reactionary whites were swept in to office across the country in a wave of race baiting propaganda. In 1915 this violence reached its peak.

On June 11, 1915, in Mobile, West Florida, the local chapter of the Knights of Dixie began rallying in the city after an ordinance passed by the Fusionist city government outlawed armed demonstrations at polling places. What first was a small rally however became a mod numbering in thousands that began rampaging through the city attacking black residents and destroying their homes and businesses. That night 11 black residents would be killed and dozens of homes and businesses were burned or vandalized. However, the violence did not end that night; it continued for several days afterward with groups killing nearly 200 and destroying huge swaths of the city. One of the white Fusionist city councilmen was also killed by the mob after he came out to try to settle them down. Black and Fusionist residents fled the city en mass to escape the bloodshed. Bryan on June 15 made his famous and consequential "Bloody Summer Address" where he announced that he planned on send in the army to quell the violence soon if the fighting did not halt quickly in Mobile, but this only multiplied the issue several times over.

Following Bryan's address, outraged white mobs led by the Knights of Dixie and the Blue Shirts began rising up and attacking Fusionists and Black Dixians wherever they held political power all across Dixie. Within a few weeks, the violence had taken over in almost every city with a Fusionist presence. In the state governments that the Fusionists controlled, the Fusionist politicians began to abandon their black allies to placate the reactionary mobs. The violence would continue for over two months before it would finally settle, but now many former Fusionist local governments were controlled by white supremacists. Bryan, faced with opposition from the federal government and the military he was commander of, never actually sent the army to stop riots anywhere.

The Populists were stunned and were divided with how to continue to operate, either by continuing to try and ally with the black population, or pandering to the white reactionaries to keep their goals. The Democrats, however, would beat them to the punch. With the Populists frozen with how to act, many Democratic leaders had begun co-opting Populist economic ideas and combined it with white supremacy to great success. Democrats such as Mississippi Senator James Vardaman, and Georgia Governor Woodrow Wilson used this combination as a way to attain huge popularity among white Dixians while the Populists faded into obscurity. In 1916, in the first direct popular vote for president and vice president (a central policy touted and passed by Bryan), Wilson and Vardaman would easily win election to the presidency and the vice presidency respectively. With this new regime in power, the federal government would be segregated and the states were given free reign to restrict voting access and segregate the black population at their will. The Exclusion Era had begun.

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JDGiant

Oh Balls!

David Dimbleby:
And we can once again cross to our correspondent at the Morley and Outwood count. How are things looking there at this moment?

Correspondent:
Well, David, we are now on our third recount here. It is obviously very close but Ed Balls and his team are looking quite glum...

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