The American System Expanded Universe

As my timeline, The American System, heads farther into the 20th century, I have more and more ideas for wikiboxes and graphics that aren't strictly relevant to the TL, but that end up languishing in my test thread. In the mold of @KingSweden24 's Cincoverse, I've decided to create this thread for all of the graphical odds and ends, from news articles and 21st century elections to state profiles and sports, that don't really fit into the main thread, but that don't really belong in a test thread. There may be spoilers here, just as a heads up, though I intend to stick to fleshing out the modern world and pop culture/entertainment.
 
President Henry Clay Home & Museum
Let's start things off with something Henry Clay related:
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The President Henry Clay Home & Museum is a complex located in Lexington, Kentucky. It contains the President's plantation, known as Ashland, a museum that explores the life and times of Henry Clay (1777-1855), a library and archive of Clay's letters and writings, and several other buildings not open to the public. Like all United States presidential libraries for administrations prior to that of John Fountain, Clay's is not part of the Federal National Archive's presidential library system, with the museum's maintenance overseen by the University of Kentucky.
 
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Fort Pierce, Florida
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Fort Pierce, officially the City of Fort Pierce, is a coastal metropolis and the county seat of St. Lucie County in the Treasure Coast region of Florida, United States. With a population of 379,207 as of the 2020 census, it is the third-most populous city in Florida after Jacksonville and Kissimmee, and the twelfth-most populous city in the Southeastern United States. The Fort Pierce metropolitan area is the ninth-largest in the U.S. with a population of 5.98 million people as of 2020.

Fort Pierce is a major center and leader in finance, commerce, and international trade. Fort Pierce's metropolitan area is the second-largest urban economy in Florida after the Kissimmee-Orlando area, and the 15th largest in the U.S., with a GDP of $335.3 billion as of 2019. According to a 2018 study of 80 world cities, Fort Pierce is the second-richest in the U.S. and fifth-richest globally in
purchasing power. Fort Pierce is majority-minority, with a Hispanic population of 196,950, or 51.7 percent of the city's population, as of 2020.

Harbor improvements during the mid-20th century transformed Fort Pierce from a sleepy coastal village into a major military and civilian
deep-water port. Its coastal location facilitates Naval Station Broward and the Port of Fort Pierce, Florida's second largest seaport, and the busiest seaport by passenger traffic in the world. Significant factors in the local economy include services such as banking, insurance, healthcare, and logistics. As with much of Florida, tourism is important to the Fort Pierce area. Fort Pierce has sometimes been called the Gateway to the Caribbean because of its cultural and commercial ties to the region.
 
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Charlie Breathitt
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Charles Emerson Breathitt (born June 19, 1963) is an American politician and businessman who is the 41st and current president of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as president of the Bank of the United States from 2000 to 2014, and was the CEO of Theta Systems, an information technology company, from 1993 to 2000 and 2014 to 2016.

Breathitt was born in
Covington, Kentucky and moved with his family to Florence, Nebraska when he was six months old. He studied at Lehigh University before earning an MBA from the University of Nebraska. After rising through the ranks at Frontier Capital, he was promoted to CFO in 1989, before leaving to take over Theta Systems as CEO in 1993, becoming one of the youngest CEOs in the country. Breathitt helped reverse Theta's decline and financial problems, transforming the company into not just an IT provider but a major investor in telecoms and a pioneer in IT for email and instant messaging. In 2000, he was nominated to serve as president of the Bank of the United States (BUS) by its Board of Governors, and Breathitt led the bank for fourteen years. During his tenure at the helm of the BUS, Breathitt rose to international attention for helping avert a bank run during the 2000-2001 financial crisis, and later, in 2002, for controversially weighing in on proposed healthcare legislation. He has been credited with securing Wall Street's support for Claire Huntington's financial stimulus and reforms during her presidency.

Long a top-dollar donor to the Democratic Party, Breathitt was frequently suggested as a potential candidate for
Governor of Nebraska and, after his move to Aurora in 2000, Governor of Illinois. He declined several offers, and retired as BUS president in 2014 to return to Theta Systems. At the deadlocked 2016 Democratic National Convention, Breathitt was persuaded by Richard Sullivan to seek the nomination as a compromise candidate. He received the nomination on the 22nd ballot and narrowly defeated incumbent Neil Ahrendt in the 2016 presidential election.

Breathitt's first-term actions addressed the
2016-2017 immigration crisis through a comprehensive reform bill and ratified the North American Common Market. Other major initiatives included passage of Carbon Cap-and-Trade to combat climate change, a 2018 tax cut bill, and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which repealed the 'public spaces clause' of the 2014 Defense of Marriage Act.

After winning
re-election by defeating Whig opponent Kate Whitney, Breathitt was sworn in for a second term on January 20, 2021. In his second term, Breathitt has faced an increasingly hostile Whig congressional majority, including a 2022 standoff with Whig congressional leaders over a controversial irrigation canal project that nearly resulted in a government shutdown until Breathitt signed the appropriations bill at the last moment. He also presided over the integration of the U.S. into the NACM, and drastically expanded American involvement in the Nicaraguan civil war starting in June 2022. As a result of U.S. airstrikes on rebel positions, tensions with Cuba and Argentina have risen and Breathitt has drawn criticism from the leaders of France, Mexico, China, and Guatemala.
 
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University of Kansas
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The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, and several satellite campuses, research centers, and hospitals across the state of Kansas. Founded in 1865 as a land-grant university and opened in 1866, it is regarded as one of the most prestigious public universities in the country. Initially, the university was established with a focus on agricultural research, but quickly became a center for engineering and mechanical innovation. In 1904, Kenneth Buchanan and Eli Smith, both engineering students, built and successfully flew the first successful aircraft while at Kansas. During the second Cameron administration, president Edgar Emmons used federal grant money to support student and faculty interest in computing machines. In conjunction with researchers at Joseph Smith University in Independence, Missouri and Nebraska Polytechnic in Lancaster, Nebraska, Kansas's computing department created the first internet in order to share research and academic literature.

Today, Kansas is considered a
public ivy, and is well-known for its extensive and robust computer science and aeronautical engineering departments. The university is a major part of the regional economy, and its computing research has helped form the Silicon Prairie that extends from Florence, Nebraska south through Lawrence and Independence, Missouri to Chisholm, Kansas. Alumni include twelve Governors of Kansas, six Senators for Kansas, one President of the United States, hundreds of state legislators, and over 100 John Brown Scholars.
 
View attachment 795423The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, and several satellite campuses, research centers, and hospitals across the state of Kansas. Founded in 1865 as a land-grant university and opened in 1866, it is regarded as one of the most prestigious public universities in the country. Initially, the university was established with a focus on agricultural research, but quickly became a center for engineering and mechanical innovation. In 1904, Kenneth Buchanan and Eli Smith, both engineering students, built and successfully flew the first successful aircraft while at Kansas. During the second Cameron administration, president Edgar Emmons used federal grant money to support student and faculty interest in computing machines. In conjunction with researchers at Joseph Smith University in Independence, Missouri and Nebraska Polytechnic in Lancaster, Nebraska, Kansas's computing department created the first internet in order to share research and academic literature.

Today, Kansas is considered a
public ivy, and is well-known for its extensive and robust computer science and aeronautical engineering departments. The university is a major part of the regional economy, and its computing research has helped form the Silicon Prairie that extends from Florence, Nebraska south through Lawrence and Independence, Missouri to Chisholm, Kansas. Alumni include twelve Governors of Kansas, six Senators for Kansas, one President of the United States, hundreds of state legislators, and over 100 John Brown Scholars.
Lawrence, Kansas. Is there anybody out there? Anybody at all?
 
Sorry for the delayed responses, I was a bit busy with finals
When was the internet developed ITTL?
Sometime in the 50s-60s, and it went from a university/federal government thing to a nationwide commercial thing in the 90s.
Lawrence, Kansas. Is there anybody out there? Anybody at all?
It's a decently sized college town, probably about 200,000 people TTL.
So. Breathitt is a sort of Elon Musk in the White House?
Not really, he's a mix of Mitt Romney, Ross Perot, and if Bill Clinton was a conservative
 
1891 and 1895 Canadian elections
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The 1891 Canadian federal election was held on March 5, 1891, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 7th Parliament of Canada. It was won by the Conservative Party of Prime Minister Sir John MacDonald.

The 1891 campaign revolved around two key issues: MacDonald's developmentalist and protectionist
National Policy, and MacDonald's refusal in 1885 to commute the death sentence of Louis Riel. MacDonald's campaign emphasized stability and the economic benefits of the National Policy, while Liberal leader Wilfred Laurier proposed a policy of free trade with the United States and attacked MacDonald for allowing the execution of Riel.

It was a close election, and Laurier made strong gains in
Quebec on the back of the Riel controversy. MacDonald narrowly retained his majority, but went on to die later in the year. He was succeeded first by John Abbott and then by John Thompson the following year.

Despite losing the election, Laurier remained as the leader of the Liberals until he led the party to a second defeat
four years later.

Canadian voters would ultimately reject free trade as the Conservative government embraced
Austen Chamberlain's policy of Imperial Preference in 1904.


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The 1895 Canadian federal election was held on June 23, 1895, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 7th Parliament of Canada. It was won by the Conservative Party of Prime Minister Sir John Thompson. Thompson had become Prime Minister in December 1892, after the resignation of John Abbott due to ill health. The first Catholic Prime Minister, he was forced to deal with the continued fallout of the Manitoba Schools question and Riel's execution.

Thompson was relatively popular, and called an early election. The campaign was dominated by the Manitoba Schools question, and despite Thompson's personal popularity, his party was deeply divided over the issue. Meanwhile, Liberal leader Wilfred Laurier stuck to his party's support for free trade but focused on the schools issue. Thompson argued that the National Policy was greatly beneficial to Canadian industrial development and was aided by the support of the powerful business interests of Toronto and Montreal, though his party remained fractured over the schools.

Ultimately, the Conservatives won another term in government, in large part due to Thompson's strong performances in
Quebec and Ontario, but with 107 seats, the slimmest majority possible, his government was very fragile. The Liberals were hurt in the west and in Ontario by the Orange Liberals, an anti-Catholic, anti-French party founded by a group of like-minded Liberals and Conservatives. As a result of the election, Laurier resigned as leader, while Thompson would be defeated in the 1898 elections after the failure of a proposed Manitoba compromise.
 
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1898 and 1902 Canadian elections
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The 1898 Canadian federal election was held on November 15, 1898, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 9th Parliament of Canada. It was won by the Liberal Party, led by William S. Fielding. Though the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister John Thompson, won a plurality of the vote, the Liberals won a majority of seats to form the next government. The election ended 20 years of Conservative rule.

The governing
Conservative Party was, since the 1891 death of John A. MacDonald, disorganized. Although Prime Minister Thompson had led the party to a narrow victory in 1895, his government was plagued by the Manitoba Schools question. In 1898, Thompson's proposed compromise was rejected by Manitoba premier Thomas Greenway and filibustered by an alliance of defecting Conservatives, western Liberals, and Orangeists. As a result of the defeat, Thompson requested the dissolution of Parliament and called an election for November 15.

Thompson tried to build support for his compromise, while
Fielding accepted the National Policy and ran on the Catholic compromise that he had devised as premier of Nova Scotia. Dalton McCarthy and Thomas Greenway jointly led the Orange Liberal campaign, in which they crusaded against any sort of concession towards Catholics and Francophone Canadians. Fielding was helped by the defection of the Toronto and Montreal business interests to the Liberals.

Ending up, the Conservatives won the most votes, but the Liberals secured a minority government of 106 seats. Thompson resigned immediately after, and Fielding was invited to form a government.


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The 1902 Canadian federal election was held on August 21, 1902, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 10th Parliament of Canada. The Conservative Party, led by former prime minister John Thompson, regained power after four years of William Fielding's Liberal minority government.

The central issue was Liberal support for a proposed agreement with the
United States to lower tariffs. The Conservative Party denounced it because it threatened to weaken ties with Britain and lead to American economic dominance over Canada. The Conservatives won, and former prime minister John Thompson retook his office. During Fielding's government, he had successfully resolved the Manitoba Schools question in 1899, and upon the ascension of William Weldon as President of the United States, Fielding decided to pursue the longstanding Liberal goal of tariff reciprocity, or free trade, with the Americans. After lengthy negotiations, Fielding presented a proposed trade agreement to the Commons in June of 1902. This proved deeply polarizing, and the proposal was voted down on July 16. As a result, Fielding decided to call an election focused on the proposal.

The Conservatives, reunited after the resolution of the Manitoba Schools question, united behind Thompson, who was energized by the prospect of an election fought on trade. Fielding's moderate policies also angered the
Citizens' League (formerly the Orange Liberals), and their leader George Crawford sought out disaffected western farmers. Fielding also lost the backing of the Toronto and Montreal business interests, and he ultimately led the Liberals to a decisive defeat.
 
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Sisters of the South
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The Sisters of the South are an American country music band from Brandon, Mississippi. Since their founding in 2007, the band has consisted of Jessica Denton (lead vocals, steel guitar), Amanda Denton (vocals, banjo, guitar, fiddle), and Marianne Denton (bass, mandolin, guitar). The three, all sisters, formed the band in 2007 while attending the University of Mississippi. They performed country music, becoming popular on campus. In 2009, the Sisters attracted the attention of record labels, and signed with Tillman Records Nashville.

Upon signing with Tillman, the Sisters released their first full-length album,
The Rankin' File (2010), which was critically acclaimed but enjoyed only modest commercial success. Their second album, Variations (2012), was the group's breakout record, topping the country music charts. The Sisters' third release, Faces on a Billboard (2016), was highly successful, dominating not only the country charts but achieving crossover success with their singles "Furnaces", "Cicero", and "Steel Mountains". The single "Will & Testament" from By the Wayside (2021) even reached number one on the Contemporary Pop charts, their first non-country number one single.

On a local news broadcast in
St. Joseph, Missouri, May 14th, 2021, the Sisters stated that they did not intend to celebrate Ordinance Day, a holiday widely commemorated in the south. Amanda Denton told the anchors that "...none of us think, honestly, that Ordinance Day is worth celebrating. It commemorates secession, so basically treason, and it was in an effort to stop the abolition of slavery." The remarks triggered a furious backlash from fans, including death threats. Many country radio stations dropped the Sisters from regular play, while numerous public figures, both within and without the country music industry, came to their defense, and the controversy led to increased interest from northern audiences in their music. As a result of the backlash, the Sisters left Tillman and signed with Pioneer Records in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Since the Ordinance Day controversy, the sisters have become involved in politics, performing for a number of
Whig candidates during the 2022 midterms and speaking out on major issues such as same-sex marriage. Lead singer Jessica Denton has engaged in a long-running nexus feud with one of her most prominent critics over the Ordinance Day comments, House minority leader Alex Sessions. In October 2022, the Sisters released their fifth album, All That Came Before Us, which discusses southern heritage, the legacy of the Civil War, and the American reality. The album spawned five hit singles: "My America", "Ordinary", "Eye for an Eye", "The Sticks and the City", and "Who Are We Now?". Though it had only mediocre sales among country listeners, the record enjoyed massive success in the mainstream, Americana, and folk categories.

The Sisters of the South have won 11
Voix Awards, including 5 for All That Came Before Us, which received the Album of the Year Award, and its single "Who Are We Now?", which received the Song of the Year Award. By January 2023, with 31 million certified albums sold and sales of 29.3 million albums in the US, the Sisters had become the best-selling all-woman band and best-selling country group in the US since such statistics were first compiled in 1993.

And here we get into some of the pop culture of TAS with a look at my favorite genre and a callback to one of my favorite chapters
 
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View attachment 801966The Sisters of the South are an American country music band from Brandon, Mississippi. Since their founding in 2007, the band has consisted of Jessica Denton (lead vocals, steel guitar), Amanda Denton (vocals, banjo, guitar, fiddle), and Marianne Denton (bass, mandolin, guitar). The three, all sisters, formed the band in 2007 while attending the University of Mississippi. They performed country music, becoming popular on campus. In 2009, the Sisters attracted the attention of record labels, and signed with Tillman Records Nashville.

Upon signing with Tillman, the Sisters released their first full-length album,
The Rankin' File (2010), which was critically acclaimed but enjoyed only modest commercial success. Their second album, Variations (2012), was the group's breakout record, topping the country music charts. The Sisters' third release, Faces on a Billboard (2016), was highly successful, dominating not only the country charts but achieving crossover success with their singles "Furnaces", "Cicero", and "Steel Mountains". The single "Will & Testament" from By the Wayside (2021) even reached number one on the Contemporary Pop charts, their first non-country number one single.

On a local news broadcast in
St. Joseph, Missouri, May 14th, 2021, the Sisters stated that they did not intend to celebrate Ordinance Day, a holiday widely commemorated in the south. Amanda Denton told the anchors that "...none of us think, honestly, that Ordinance Day is worth celebrating. It commemorates secession, so basically treason, and it was in an effort to stop the abolition of slavery." The remarks triggered a furious backlash from fans, including death threats. Many country radio stations dropped the Sisters from regular play, while numerous public figures, both within and without the country music industry, came to their defense, and the controversy led to increased interest from northern audiences in their music. As a result of the backlash, the Sisters left Tillman and signed with Pioneer Records in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Since the Ordinance Day controversy, the sisters have become involved in politics, performing for a number of
Whig candidates during the 2022 midterms and speaking out on major issues such as same-sex marriage. Lead singer Jessica Denton has engaged in a long-running nexus feud with one of her most prominent critics over the Ordinance Day comments, House minority leader Alex Sessions. In October 2022, the Sisters released their fifth album, All That Came Before Us, which discusses southern heritage, the legacy of the Civil War, and the American reality. The album spawned five hit singles: "My America", "Ordinary", "Eye for an Eye", "The Sticks and the City", and "Who Are We Now?". Though it had only mediocre sales among country listeners, the record enjoyed massive success in the mainstream, Americana, and folk categories.

The Sisters of the South have won 11
Voix Awards, including 5 for All That Came Before Us, which received the Album of the Year Award, and its single "Who Are We Now?", which received the Song of the Year Award. By January 2023, with 31 million certified albums sold and sales of 29.3 million albums in the US, the Sisters had become the best-selling all-woman band and best-selling country group in the US since such statistics were first compiled in 1993.

And here we get into some of the pop culture of TAS with a look at my favorite genre and a callback to one of my favorite chapters
About Civil War effects TTL....
Are Baptists in this Universe still divided into Southern (SBC), Northern (ABCUSA) and Black (NBC) Churches after War between the States, or not?
 
About Civil War effects TTL....
Are Baptists in this Universe still divided into Southern (SBC), Northern (ABCUSA) and Black (NBC) Churches after War between the States, or not?
Without reconstruction, Black churches are less united, so there are a few different regional Black Baptist conventions, some have joined the Mormons, on the whole the Black religious scene is more fragmented (which will be interesting for civil rights). The Baptists as a whole still split into southern and northern conferences.
 
2022 United Kingdom general election
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The 2022 United Kingdom general election was held on Tuesday, 13 September 2022. The governing Liberal Party remaining the largest single party in the House of Commons, but lost its overall majority, and incumbent Prime Minister David Graves was defeated in his constituency in a dramatic loss. As a result, Stephen Morgan was selected as the new Prime Minister and formed a minority government with confidence and supply from the Conservative-Unionist Party.

The Liberal Party, which had governed in the majority since
1982, was defending a working majority of 256 against the Alliance for Change, a centre-left coalition of the Social Democratic Party, Labour Party, and Independent Liberal Group, led by Social Democratic leader Adam Clift. Graves was widely expected to lead the Liberals to another majority, but shortly before Parliament's five-year term expired, the Daily Telegraph exposed the Contracts Scandal, a wide-reaching corruption scheme in which Liberal MPs, including several high-ranking cabinet officials and Prime Minister Graves himself, were implicated in taking kickbacks from banks and defence contractors, as well as embezzling public funds.

Graves refused to resign, insisting that the allegations were just "exaggerations of how business gets done in Westminster," a move decried as emblematic of the arrogance of the Liberals.
Opinion polls had shown the Liberals with a comfortable lead and projected the loss of around a dozen seats. However, the cloud of scandal and subsequent prosecution of Home Minister Ashley Blackwood resulted in a wild polling swing towards the Alliance, and 48 Liberal MPs crossed the floor and joined the Alliance in protest. Facing increased media scrutiny, Graves initially withdrew from the planned leaders' debate, but reversed course under public backlash. He was widely perceived as irritable and struggled to defend himself from Clift. Throughout the final weeks of the campaign, the Liberals and Alliance traded the polling lead, though analysts still predicted a narrow Liberal majority. In an upset, the Liberal Party returned 295 MPs -- a net loss of 158 relative to 2017 -- and won 37.1% of the vote, an 11-point swing against them. It was the first election since 1997 where no party won a majority. The election had the closest result between the two largest parties since February 1977, and was the first election since 1902 where the Labour Party did not field any independent candidates. It was also the first election since 1904 where the incumbent prime minister was defeated in his own constituency, as David Graves lost his Sheffield Hallam seat to the Alliance by a 15-point margin.

Stephen Morgan, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, was selected by the Liberal Parliamentary Caucus as leader in an emergency meeting. He formed a confidence-and-supply agreement with the Irish Unionists and the English Conservative Party, establishing a minority Liberal government. However, the Liberal Party has been badly weakened by the election, having lost all but one seat in Scotland and suffered a collapse in support in the party's traditional stronghold of Birmingham. With the electoral breakthrough of the Scots' Party, Scottish nationalism has gained popularity, and Liberal defections to the Alliance have continued.
 
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View attachment 810333The 2022 United Kingdom general election was held on Tuesday, 13 September 2022. The governing Liberal Party remaining the largest single party in the House of Commons, but lost its overall majority, and incumbent Prime Minister David Graves was defeated in his constituency in a dramatic loss. As a result, Stephen Morgan was selected as the new Prime Minister and formed a minority government with confidence and supply from the Irish Unionist Party of Ulster.

The Liberal Party, which had governed in the majority since
1977, was defending a working majority of 256 against the Alliance for Change, a centre-left coalition of the Innovation Party, Labour Party, Independent Liberal Group, and Scottish Conservative Party, led by Innovation Party leader Adam Clift. Graves was widely expected to lead the Liberals to another majority, but shortly before Parliament's five-year term expired, the Daily Telegraph exposed the Contracts Scandal, a wide-reaching corruption scheme in which Liberal MPs, including several high-ranking cabinet officials and Prime Minister Graves himself, were implicated in taking kickbacks from banks and defence contractors, as well as embezzling public funds.

Graves refused to resign, insisting that the allegations were just "exaggerations of how business gets done in Westminster," a move decried as emblematic of the arrogance of the Liberals.
Opinion polls had shown the Liberals with a comfortable lead and projected the loss of around a dozen seats. However, the cloud of scandal and subsequent prosecution of Home Minister Ashley Blackwood resulted in a wild polling swing towards the Alliance, and 47 Liberal MPs crossed the floor and joined the Alliance in protest. Facing increased media scrutiny, Graves initially withdrew from the planned leaders' debate, but reversed course under public backlash. He was widely perceived as irritable and struggled to defend himself from Clift. Throughout the final weeks of the campaign, the Liberals and Alliance traded the polling lead, though analysts still predicted a narrow Liberal majority. In an upset, the Liberal Party returned 321 MPs -- a net loss of 132 relative to 2017 -- and won 38.4% of the vote, a 10-point swing against them. It was the first election since 1997 where no party won a majority. The election had the closest result between the two largest parties since February 1977, and was the first election since 1902 where the Labour Party did not field any independent candidates. It was also the first election since 1904 where the incumbent prime minister was defeated in his own constituency, as David Graves lost his Sheffield Hallam seat to the Alliance by a 15-point margin.

Stephen Morgan, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, was selected by the Liberal Parliamentary Caucus as leader in an emergency meeting. He formed a confidence-and-supply agreement with the Irish Unionists and the English Conservative Party, establishing a minority Liberal government. However, the Liberal Party has been badly weakened by the election, having lost all but one seat in Scotland and suffered a collapse in support in the party's traditional stronghold of Birmingham. With the electoral breakthrough of the Scots' Party, Scottish nationalism has gained popularity, and Liberal defections to the Alliance have continued.
So, Ireland is still divided TTL?
 
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