Our Fair Country: The Commonwealth of New England
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THREE doses of Pure Awesome(TM) in one day! Be still my beating heart. 
I see you have managed to tear yourself away from your farm in Stardew Valley, for a while, at least.
I see you have managed to tear yourself away from your farm in Stardew Valley, for a while, at least.
THREE doses of Pure Awesome(TM) in one day! Be still my beating heart.
I see you have managed to tear yourself away from your farm in Stardew Valley, for a while, at least.
I had a bunch of inspiration today! Plus I gotta get back in the swing of things... Soviet election is next Sunday.
What does the Cape Cod Party support? Becoming its own province? Or just additional funding and stuff like that?
Also, there's Tesco in New England? Wicked.
Also, there's Tesco in New England? Wicked.
The unenviable position of being in opposition to Edmund Muskie. A french-speaking leftist, and Stanfield was never able to win a general election against him, losing twice. When he stepped down, George Bush took over.
The Cape Cod Party supports conservation of the Massachusetts Bay and the Cape Cod shoreline first and foremost. If this also includes becoming its own province, hey that's cool too (but it's not strongly supported, because the rest of Plymouth pays a lot for conservation on the cape). Plymouth also does not fully utilise the federal environmental transfer funds (collected from the carbon tax) to promote conservation efforts on the cape, a lot of it is instead spent on large capital projects in places like Fall River and New Bedford. They are important, don't get me wrong, but no one really cares about spending the money needed to work on fighting erosion, fixing lighthouses, and making roads more environmentally friendly on the cape because it costs so damn much with little real benefit. Fixing the docks in New Bedford allows for more ships with less of an environmental impact. The party's actual policies are bigger than big tent, they have economic socialists and economic libertarians next to economic liberals. It's just an advocacy group gone wild.
Tesco and Stop & Shop are New England's largest grocers, although Shaw's has a large share of the northern New England market. Co-op Atlantic operates in the Maritimes (Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island) and has a store as far south as Peabody MA.
Yes. It's a much older version of this timeline which obviously is nowhere near canon.
You continually outdo yourself, Kanan. This is awesome.
Kind of a random question, but are there ever any secessionist movements or movements to join NE from the USA or vice verse?
Kind of a random question, but are there ever any secessionist movements or movements to join NE from the USA or vice verse?
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Yes. Both of these exist and have existed at some point in time. While not taken seriously anymore, when the Canal was being built, there were many in upstate New York who wanted to secede from the United States and join New England. Even today, some border towns have contemplated an official petition to join New England, but it's unlikely the U.S. Congress would ever authorise this. Long Island has been known as the most "Pro-U.S." province, given Brooklyn's historical ties with the Tri-City Region. The Nationals, who used to hold many MPs at the national level and primarily were from southern New England, were wholly discredited federally when it was discovered in the 1970s that they received funding from the U.S. Nationals, and had official instruction to either promote Pro-U.S. policies (Joining NODO, allowing U.S. Bases in New England, being anti-Communist) or join the United States (although this was not pushed after the 1950s).
Yes. Rotten Boroughs is the catch-all term for what we know as Gerrymadering. In the United States it's known as "Rigged Districts" and "Rotton Boroughs" depending on how close to Canada/New England you are.
Just saw this! Yes there's still an American version of it.
As for New England, it has had a successful adaptation of Yes, Prime Minister that was popular in the late 80s/early 90s. Today, however, the most popular New England political show is House of Cards, based off the earlier British series of the same name. The show depicts a ruthless backbench MP from a prominent political family (believed and understood to be modelled off of the Kennedy and Bush families) as he stops at nothing to become Prime Minister. It's currently in its 7th season.
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