It's not FPTP, therefore it's PR...*cough* AndyC's favourite system of electoral representation is AV *cough*
*cough* AV is not PR *cough*
No, territories by definition don't elect MCPs, though they may have nonvoting delegates to represent them (same sort of arrangement as the OTL USA).By the way, what are the statuses of representation of the territories? Does Greenland have any MCP's, for example?
No, but it's the beginning that eventually leads to that.I somehow doubt this will be exactly what he proposed though - the majoritarian aspect in particular seems unlikely.
You forgot about Britannia Province.
Edited that in too, thanks.
It's not FPTP, therefore it's PR...
I love that Mumby is in Britannia Province, which covers a similar area to Iowa, which I think is about as similar to Lincolnshire as you can get in North America.
The reason I named it that was that the equivalent town in OTL was named for a Lincolnshire immigrant, so I imagine that's why he went there in real life too
The greatest density of Mumbies in North America OTL is in neighbouring Nebraska, so this is just yet another example of art imitating life.
EDIT: Also, it would be just like my family to choose the place that sounds most like home. They'd probably have gone either there, or to New Britain, just because we are that unimaginative.
Dodged a bullet there then. I remember someone commenting on the strangeness that we (in OTL, as well) applied the term New Britain to somewhere as inhospitable as Labrador.
The reason I named it that was that the equivalent town in OTL was named for a Lincolnshire immigrant, so I imagine that's why he went there in real life too
Dodged a bullet there then. I remember someone commenting on the strangeness that we (in OTL, as well) applied the term New Britain to somewhere as inhospitable as Labrador.
The Norwegian and Swedish connection in Minnesota and North Dakota is very striking; when I was doing those maps of US state legislatures, I would go down the Ballotpedia results pages(which of course also has the names of the candidates) and a large number of them had names which could've have blended quite easily into the Riksdag or Storting.Apparently, the reason why so many Swedes settled in Minnesota was because the area reminded them so much about Scandinavia. There was also a whole influx of Danes, Finns and Norwegians in the area (Mondale comes from the Norwegian name Mundal).
The Norwegian and Swedish connection in Minnesota and North Dakota is very striking; when I was doing those maps of US state legislatures, I would go down the Ballotpedia results pages(which of course also has the names of the candidates) and a large number of them had names which could've have blended quite easily into the Riksdag or Storting.
It's striking also how long those connections lasted, and that there were entire communities in North America where they continued to speak the same language their grandparents had spoken before coming over the Atlantic. There's a point in The Path to Power, where in the US congressional election of 1940, Lyndon Johnson persuades the Norwegian ambassador to go to some place in Minnesota and hold a speech in Norwegian urging the Minnesotans to vote for the Democratic candidate.
It's often forgotten that European immigrants kept their languages, living in bilingual communities for generations. Wisconsin still conducted political meetings in German well into the 1950s. It really wasn't until the World Wars and the Cold War that there was this severe cultural shift to abandon the languages and fully assimilate into the White-American culture.
It may not be unconnected that it was also around that time that a lot of states started to get rid of unique political practices and standardised everything (term lengths and limits, legislature a miniature copy of the federal one, lieutenant-governor elected in the same way as federal vice-president, officially adopted a state flag, fully partisan legislative elections, etc.)
It may not be unconnected that it was also around that time that a lot of states started to get rid of unique political practices and standardised everything (term lengths and limits, legislature a miniature copy of the federal one, lieutenant-governor elected in the same way as federal vice-president, officially adopted a state flag, fully partisan legislative elections, etc.)
Which is a real tragedy, if you ask me. I want to see a pluralistic America where each and every one of the states is a "laboratory of democracy", if you ask me.
I mean, we're looking at a federal nation with 50 constituent states and over 300 million citizens. America has the potential to be so much more than the roughly homogenous thing it is right now.
Thanks for the quick trace map there, that actually clarifies things a lot! I will be deciding on confederal capitals soon with Alex's help, thanks for the suggestions. Broadly speaking this America doesn't have the whole 'put the capital in a smaller city' thing like the OTL USA due to the lack of the 'flee from the big cities on the coast during the ARW' factor normalising it. Though there may be exceptions to that rule, typically if there are two big rival cities and putting it in a third smaller one is a compromise.
It's only homogenous in the dominate culture. I'm Native and we live in a completely different world.
While the western Supremacists are likely a bit different, weren't the Supremacists founded in the big city?Well, there's also the 'not wanting one province to dominate the others' effects to consider - there's still the precedent of Fredericksburg TTL afterall. The Supremacists who are running things out West may try it as a "good government" measure - make the capital a small city to keep influence out of the hands of the Urban Elites. Big cities also tend to be filled with, ugh, Catholics and immigrants, and even worse, Catholic immigrants.
I'd expect that building a shiny new capital is something the newly created governments may try to do out of sheer Confederal pride - "look what we can do when we can run our own affairs, we're REAL confederations dammit". And in someplace like Westernesse that looks like it's about 3/4 frontier it might be done to encourage western settlement.