This is just a quickie infobox for a state [ATL British Columbia] in
Build-A-World's USA.
Credit for the flag goes to someone on Althistory Wiki, I assume.
In 2014, Governor Kim Frazier knew she was in trouble. Even though she was a
Republican (liberal-conservatism, Rockefeller Republicanism) and that Columbia wasn't exactly the most nationalized of states, the unpopularity of Byron Merritt, the
National (Christian democracy) president, along with the "six year itch" and a backlash by the hard-right at Merritt's social moderation meant chaos in the right-wing in most of the USA. And in Columbia, the Republicans were seen as part of that right-wing...
Riding on social conservative outrage and the fear of a regionalist take-over, the Unionists (Christian democracy, Cascadian unionism. National party in Columbia) gathered many new members and some even said that they'll replace the Republicans as Columbia's main right-wing and unionist party. Charismatic preacher Christian Morgan won the Unionist nomination easily and promised "a new, Christian, era for Columbia!"
The much-feared regionalists, the Cascadian People's Party (Cascadian regionalism, Center-left) were not taking any chances, as they finally got popular Senator Al Barnett to run for the Governorship after he declined in 2002 and 2010. Talks of getting Labor (Social democracy) to step down and endorse them for the governorship [after all, they were somewhat minor at a state level, unlike at the federal level] ended up going nowhere due to fundamental divisions on the regionalist vs. unionist front. Labor ended up running Debbie Lewis, a two-term State Senator, while mainly focusing on other, more winnable, races.
The campaign itself proved somewhat closer than people expected, as the Unionist surge ended up barely one as the "two-horse race" between unionists and regionalists hurt the Unionist Party in favor of the Republicans. Debbie Lewis, Labor's sacrifical candidate, gave it all she got, and performed far better than expected, dragging the CPP down from their 40-45% into a quite smaller 35-40% in polls.
But in the end, the Columbian people was just fed up, they couldn't take it anymore. They wanted change, and they didn't think Labor could win and that both the Republicans and Unionists represented the "status quo". In the end, they voted for Al Barnett, who was sworn in as the new Governor of Columbia come January 2015...