for some world where North America is united into one nation, with a US-style system of government.
North America is divided into the following states, following the reform of state boundaries enacted in 2011.
Mackenzie (OTL Yukon, Northwest Territory, Nunavut, Greenland)
Alaska (OTL Alaska)
Victoria (OTL British Columbia)
Alberta (OTL Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan)
Ontario (OTL Ontario)
Quebec (OTL Quebec+Maritime Provinces+Lab and Newf+Saint Pierre and Miquelon)
New England (OTL ME+NH+VT+MA+RI+CT)
New York (OTL NY)
New Jersey (OTL NJ)
Pennsylvania (OTL PA)
Delmarva (Delmarva Peninsula)
Potomac (OTL DC)
North Chesapeake (OTL MD minus the Delmarva Peninsula)
South Chesapeake (OTL VA+WV minus the Delmarva Peninsula)
Carolina (OTL NC+SC)
Georgia (OTL GA)
Florida (OTL FL east of the Apalachicola river)
Mississippi (OTL AL+MS+FL west of Apalachicola river)
Tennessee (OTL TN+KY)
Ohio (OTL OH)
Indiana (OTL IN)
Michigan (OTL MI, without the Upper Peninsula)
Illinois (OTL IL)
Superior (OTL Upper Peninsula+WI+MN)
Missouri (OTL MO+IA)
Dakota (OTL ND+SD+NE)
Louisiana (OTL LA+AR)
Oklahoma (OTL OK+KS)
Texas (OTL TX)
Colorado (OTL CO+NM)
Utah (OTL AZ+UT)
Southern California (OTL Southern CA minus San Diego and Imperial counties)
Northern California (OTL Northern CA+NV)
Hawaii (OTL HI)
Montana (OTL MT+WY+ID)
Columbia (OTL WA+OR)
Cuba (OTL Cuba+Bahamas+Bermuda)
Hispaniola (OTL Haiti+Dominican Republic)
Puerto Rico (OTL Puerto Rico)
Jamaica (OTL Jamaica)
Trinidad (the rest of the Caribbean)
Panama (OTL Panama+Costa Rica+Nicaragua)
Guatemala (OTL Belize+El Salvador+Guatemala+Honduras)
Baja California (San Diego and Imperial counties in OTL CA+Baja California)
Yutacan (OTL Quintana Roo+Campeche+Yutacan)
Tabasco (OTL Tabasco+Chiapas)
Veracruz (OTL Veracruz)
Oaxaca (OTL Oaxaca)
Mexico (OTL Edomex+Districto Federal)
Puebla (OTL Puebla+Morelos+Tlaxcala)
Acapulco (OTL Guerrero+Michoacan)
Queretaro (OTL Queretaro+Hidalgo)
Monterrey (OTL Nuevo Leon+Tamaulipas)
Guanajuato (OTL Guanajuato+San Luis Potosi)
Jalisco (OTL Jalisco+Colima+Nayarit)
Durango (OTL Durango+Sinaloa+Zacatecas+Aguascalientes)
Chihuahua (OTL Chihuahua+Coahuila+Sonora)
There are 650 members of the House of Representatives, elected by preferential voting. Seat magnitude varies between 1 (in at-large seats in the smallest states) to 3. Term length is three years.
There are 100 members of the Senate, also elected by preferential voting. Senate seats are divvied out every decade, after the census results, with each state getting at least 1. The first election cycle (ITTL, in this case 2011) after the Census is considered a "Full Senate" election, with every seat up for election. Senate terms are five years long. Senate elections occur out of sync with House and President elections.
The President is elected in a manner very similar to in Brazil, only in the second round an Electoral College is used.
2009, 2013, 2017, etc: Presidential elections
2012, 2014 (for half of the seats), 2017 (for half of the seats), 2019 (for half of the seats), etc: Senate elections
2007, 2010, 2013, etc: House elections
The most prominent parties in USNA are:
Liberal Democratic Party: a centrist outfit with a socially traditionalist bent. It is led by Susana Martinez, former Senator for Colorado, and incumbent President. It is the most powerful party in the country (thanks to its strength in the Hispanic vote), but it has had long droughts in the past. It narrowly took back power in the November 2017 presidential election, finally recovering from brand damage it sustained due to being in power during the stock market crash of 2009.
National Liberal Party: it is the polar opposite of the LDP, and is seen as more "progressive" than the LDP. It is as smack dab in the center, also like the LDP. It was in power from 2009 to 2013, to its detriment; President Anthony Weiner proved to be a poor President, and his personal scandals only worsened the party's woes. It is currently licking its wounds and hoping to return to power in 2021.
Social Democratic Party: a proper "Labour" party, it was in office from 2013 to 2017 (thanks to the left vote rallying around it in the first round, and it facing the Freedom Party in the second round). It is led by Richard Trumka, who represents SW PA in the House of Representatives. The Social Democratic Party is unable to corral all of USNA's unions though, since many of them prefer to play kingmaker (especially to prop up the LDP).
Liberty Party: this is a center-right party that defines itself as moderately libertarian. It is primarily divided between a minority "Religious Right" wing, and a majority "capital-L Libertarian" wing. They tend to be best in the South and the Interior West. It is led by Ted Cruz, a member of the House of Representatives living in Houston. It has a complicated relationship with the LDP.
Green Party: frequently a junior partner of the National Liberal Party, and center-left overall. It has a reputation for working within the system to achieve its goals (even if that means working with the LDP), and its support is volatile, regularly halving or doubling from election to election. It is led by Matt Gonzalez, mayor of San Francisco.
Democratic Left Party: this party is a big-tent of the far-left (though in practice it is not really far-left), with Trots, tankies, Titoists, and others. It famously decided the outcome of the 2005 election, flipping New York to the LDP via its organizational efforts, in protest of the NLP candidate's plan for a free trade agreement with the European Union. Jarvis Tyner is its leader, and sits on the Philadelphia city council.
National Revival Party: far-right outfit along the lines of AfD in Germany. Richard Spencer is its leader, but he has been unsuccessful in getting the party any congressional representation.
United People's Party: a slightly-center-right party that does best among small-l liberal Mainline Protestants in the Midwest. Its leader is David Young, a representative from the state of Missouri.
next up, the results of the 2010 census.
North America is divided into the following states, following the reform of state boundaries enacted in 2011.
Mackenzie (OTL Yukon, Northwest Territory, Nunavut, Greenland)
Alaska (OTL Alaska)
Victoria (OTL British Columbia)
Alberta (OTL Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan)
Ontario (OTL Ontario)
Quebec (OTL Quebec+Maritime Provinces+Lab and Newf+Saint Pierre and Miquelon)
New England (OTL ME+NH+VT+MA+RI+CT)
New York (OTL NY)
New Jersey (OTL NJ)
Pennsylvania (OTL PA)
Delmarva (Delmarva Peninsula)
Potomac (OTL DC)
North Chesapeake (OTL MD minus the Delmarva Peninsula)
South Chesapeake (OTL VA+WV minus the Delmarva Peninsula)
Carolina (OTL NC+SC)
Georgia (OTL GA)
Florida (OTL FL east of the Apalachicola river)
Mississippi (OTL AL+MS+FL west of Apalachicola river)
Tennessee (OTL TN+KY)
Ohio (OTL OH)
Indiana (OTL IN)
Michigan (OTL MI, without the Upper Peninsula)
Illinois (OTL IL)
Superior (OTL Upper Peninsula+WI+MN)
Missouri (OTL MO+IA)
Dakota (OTL ND+SD+NE)
Louisiana (OTL LA+AR)
Oklahoma (OTL OK+KS)
Texas (OTL TX)
Colorado (OTL CO+NM)
Utah (OTL AZ+UT)
Southern California (OTL Southern CA minus San Diego and Imperial counties)
Northern California (OTL Northern CA+NV)
Hawaii (OTL HI)
Montana (OTL MT+WY+ID)
Columbia (OTL WA+OR)
Cuba (OTL Cuba+Bahamas+Bermuda)
Hispaniola (OTL Haiti+Dominican Republic)
Puerto Rico (OTL Puerto Rico)
Jamaica (OTL Jamaica)
Trinidad (the rest of the Caribbean)
Panama (OTL Panama+Costa Rica+Nicaragua)
Guatemala (OTL Belize+El Salvador+Guatemala+Honduras)
Baja California (San Diego and Imperial counties in OTL CA+Baja California)
Yutacan (OTL Quintana Roo+Campeche+Yutacan)
Tabasco (OTL Tabasco+Chiapas)
Veracruz (OTL Veracruz)
Oaxaca (OTL Oaxaca)
Mexico (OTL Edomex+Districto Federal)
Puebla (OTL Puebla+Morelos+Tlaxcala)
Acapulco (OTL Guerrero+Michoacan)
Queretaro (OTL Queretaro+Hidalgo)
Monterrey (OTL Nuevo Leon+Tamaulipas)
Guanajuato (OTL Guanajuato+San Luis Potosi)
Jalisco (OTL Jalisco+Colima+Nayarit)
Durango (OTL Durango+Sinaloa+Zacatecas+Aguascalientes)
Chihuahua (OTL Chihuahua+Coahuila+Sonora)
There are 650 members of the House of Representatives, elected by preferential voting. Seat magnitude varies between 1 (in at-large seats in the smallest states) to 3. Term length is three years.
There are 100 members of the Senate, also elected by preferential voting. Senate seats are divvied out every decade, after the census results, with each state getting at least 1. The first election cycle (ITTL, in this case 2011) after the Census is considered a "Full Senate" election, with every seat up for election. Senate terms are five years long. Senate elections occur out of sync with House and President elections.
The President is elected in a manner very similar to in Brazil, only in the second round an Electoral College is used.
2009, 2013, 2017, etc: Presidential elections
2012, 2014 (for half of the seats), 2017 (for half of the seats), 2019 (for half of the seats), etc: Senate elections
2007, 2010, 2013, etc: House elections
The most prominent parties in USNA are:
Liberal Democratic Party: a centrist outfit with a socially traditionalist bent. It is led by Susana Martinez, former Senator for Colorado, and incumbent President. It is the most powerful party in the country (thanks to its strength in the Hispanic vote), but it has had long droughts in the past. It narrowly took back power in the November 2017 presidential election, finally recovering from brand damage it sustained due to being in power during the stock market crash of 2009.
National Liberal Party: it is the polar opposite of the LDP, and is seen as more "progressive" than the LDP. It is as smack dab in the center, also like the LDP. It was in power from 2009 to 2013, to its detriment; President Anthony Weiner proved to be a poor President, and his personal scandals only worsened the party's woes. It is currently licking its wounds and hoping to return to power in 2021.
Social Democratic Party: a proper "Labour" party, it was in office from 2013 to 2017 (thanks to the left vote rallying around it in the first round, and it facing the Freedom Party in the second round). It is led by Richard Trumka, who represents SW PA in the House of Representatives. The Social Democratic Party is unable to corral all of USNA's unions though, since many of them prefer to play kingmaker (especially to prop up the LDP).
Liberty Party: this is a center-right party that defines itself as moderately libertarian. It is primarily divided between a minority "Religious Right" wing, and a majority "capital-L Libertarian" wing. They tend to be best in the South and the Interior West. It is led by Ted Cruz, a member of the House of Representatives living in Houston. It has a complicated relationship with the LDP.
Green Party: frequently a junior partner of the National Liberal Party, and center-left overall. It has a reputation for working within the system to achieve its goals (even if that means working with the LDP), and its support is volatile, regularly halving or doubling from election to election. It is led by Matt Gonzalez, mayor of San Francisco.
Democratic Left Party: this party is a big-tent of the far-left (though in practice it is not really far-left), with Trots, tankies, Titoists, and others. It famously decided the outcome of the 2005 election, flipping New York to the LDP via its organizational efforts, in protest of the NLP candidate's plan for a free trade agreement with the European Union. Jarvis Tyner is its leader, and sits on the Philadelphia city council.
National Revival Party: far-right outfit along the lines of AfD in Germany. Richard Spencer is its leader, but he has been unsuccessful in getting the party any congressional representation.
United People's Party: a slightly-center-right party that does best among small-l liberal Mainline Protestants in the Midwest. Its leader is David Young, a representative from the state of Missouri.
next up, the results of the 2010 census.
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