Smeadly Butler is killed after the Bonus Riots in 1932 turn violent. FDR is elected as OTL but a plot against the government is noted and a true putsch attempted, fortunately it fails. The incident, combined with the assault on the rioters the year before and the extremes of the Great Depression, begins to cause loyalties to shift. Huey Long rallies Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas along with isolated areas around the nation. Conservative interests lay claim to New England from the Frederick River in Virginia to Pittsburgh to Maine. Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida come under the Governor's Council out of Atlanta while the Republic of Texas claims Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, New Mexico, Kansas, and southern Missouri (below the Missouri River). A California Commonwealth comes under control of Earl Warren along with Oregon and Nevada. Washington State becomes Cascadia, a technocracy under the control of a worker's council, and is making inroads into Oregon and British Columbia. Deseret, which was Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, and Colorado, is a series of city-states governed out of the new city of Yellowstone at the Colorado/Utah/Wyoming border. Beyond Utah and southern Idaho, most of the communities are self-sufficient and tend to keep to themselves. The largest nation is the Steel Empire, a monarchy under control of Comrade Paul Ricca, in reality having taken most of the criminal organizations in the region. Stretching from the Rockies to the Missouri River to the Ohio River to central Ohio, its capital of Chicago is more bustling than ever. Internally it is a police state with very fascist tendencies, the Plains states are strongly considering secession while the Communist Brotherhood works to rally the workers and farmers to its swelling ranks.
These nations are vying for control of North America...the year is 1939...