Winter Of Discontent: The Confederate Elections Of 2013
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No it wouldn't
(OOC to Joea64: I winged it. If something bad happened, or the CSS plans fell through, the CSS could still control the domestic reporting.)
OOC, as I said elsewhere, good work covering the bases.
IC: I called it.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall for the next conversation between Newt and David. I'd better bring the earplugs and the profanity filters, though. Methinks the CSS may have gone a step too far with trying to completely shut down any reportage on the Super Bowl. Damnyankees or not, a lot of people down South still follow the Champions' League, and they're going to be pretty pissed not to get even a boxscore on the game...and good old-fashioned word of mouth just can't be shut down, no matter how hard the CSS tries.
I still would like to know how Big Tobacco got kicked out of the sponsorship for the NASCAR championship series, though.
The answer: they didn't.
In 1977, R.J. Reynolds, the parent corporation of the popular Winston and Salem brands of cigarettes were looking to diversify beyond tobacco, bought into a restaurant chain....Hardee's. The Winston brass decided since Hardee's was so identified with the then growing sport of NASAR and due to pressure on the dangers of smoking among young people and how the CCC and the major church leaders kind of frowned upon that. The boys in Winston-Salem offered Hardee's as the title sponsor, and Little Bill France jumped on it.
There is some talking that Brian France is seeking a new title sponsor within the technology sector or a marketing partner that could help integrate NASCAR in to the greater North American racing community.
Quiet as its kept, Brian France favors radical reform for the CSA. He feels it would be better for business.
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A question: wouldn't "Winston" actually be R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company? (OTL founded in 1875 and surely in existence when the USA split up ITTL; Wikipedia says the company was "diversifying into other areas" as early as 1962. R.J. Reynolds Co. should be able to fit into the TL as the owner of Hardee's, Ind.)
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I've quite enjoyed this series so far and this one promises to be good. I've been pretty interested in the inner workings ofthe Confederacy based on what you've explained in the previous entries so hopefully we will see a lot more of that.
If I might ask, who's in the Confederate cabinet or whatever the equivalent is ITTL?
If I might ask, who's in the Confederate cabinet or whatever the equivalent is ITTL?
That makes sense, given that the CCC would be dominated by Baptists who take a VERY dim view of smoking, drinking, playing cards and other such entertainments. Did you know that, OTL, only the state governments in most of the Deep South, from Virginia on down, are allowed to sell hard liquor? (Georgia is one of the few OTL exceptions.) I see no reason why this couldn't be the same TTL, particularly since it'd be a major revenue stream for the state governments.
"RAYCOM SportsRadio, 8:43 in the East, 7:43 in the West. Coming up next hour, Lexington Herald-Leader sports columnist John Clay talks about the Kentucky Wildcats and how their big man being on the sidelines for the next few weeks will affect their seeding in the CCAA. You've heard the scores on the Flash, and right now we're going to the phones. Earl, from Columbia."
"Yeah, Dukes, I wanna know why nobody's given the Super Bowl score--"
Chad Dukes is a radio veteran of the Confederate States. Learned his craft in college, working not only at the campus station but for the local Dixie Radio affiliate covering sports. Worked his way up the ladder after graduation, going from graveyard shifts playing Ernest Tubb and Porter Wagoner to drive time in Raleigh to the evening shift on national, RAYCOM Sports Radio.
He's experienced a lot. Crazy, drunk callers at 3 in the morning asking for the real Hank Williams, pissed after hearing All My Rowdy Friends by Hank Jr. 50-yard-line tickets for the Don Hutson AND Sugar Bowls. Watching three perfect games, one of them Justin Verlander's 20 strikeout gem. Enjoying the attention of numerous Dixie honeys time and again.
And, every so often, the presence of a slightly-creepy agent of State Security, sitting across from him in the studio, with another looking over his producer's shoulder in the other room.
I swear I saw these guys doing mall security last month.
"Well, sorry Earl, we lost you. We noted that the game was played on Sunday, and that there's a lot going on in sports, including what Jolene from Gainesville wants to talk about: the U."
"Hey Chad, nice talking to you. WHy don't nobody give Harlan Dupay any love? He's the best freshman guard in the country and we don't hear about him enough."
Now that's what the CSS guy likes to hear, as long as it stays on topic and not stray towards the forbidden.
Curiously, everyone but the CSS understood that the lack of reporting on the Super Bowl was, as they say, 'startin' to become a thang'.
"Next hour, we'll talk with John Clay about UK basketball, and with RAYCOM baseball analyst Doug Flynn about...wait for it...SPRING TRAINING coming up in two days. Most teams reporting to Florida, a few headed to Colombia, Guyana or Paraguay. And, the latest updates on ACC and other college basketball and the DBA. All here, on RAYCOM Sports Radio."
"Yeah, Dukes, I wanna know why nobody's given the Super Bowl score--"
Chad Dukes is a radio veteran of the Confederate States. Learned his craft in college, working not only at the campus station but for the local Dixie Radio affiliate covering sports. Worked his way up the ladder after graduation, going from graveyard shifts playing Ernest Tubb and Porter Wagoner to drive time in Raleigh to the evening shift on national, RAYCOM Sports Radio.
He's experienced a lot. Crazy, drunk callers at 3 in the morning asking for the real Hank Williams, pissed after hearing All My Rowdy Friends by Hank Jr. 50-yard-line tickets for the Don Hutson AND Sugar Bowls. Watching three perfect games, one of them Justin Verlander's 20 strikeout gem. Enjoying the attention of numerous Dixie honeys time and again.
And, every so often, the presence of a slightly-creepy agent of State Security, sitting across from him in the studio, with another looking over his producer's shoulder in the other room.
I swear I saw these guys doing mall security last month.
"Well, sorry Earl, we lost you. We noted that the game was played on Sunday, and that there's a lot going on in sports, including what Jolene from Gainesville wants to talk about: the U."
"Hey Chad, nice talking to you. WHy don't nobody give Harlan Dupay any love? He's the best freshman guard in the country and we don't hear about him enough."
Now that's what the CSS guy likes to hear, as long as it stays on topic and not stray towards the forbidden.
Curiously, everyone but the CSS understood that the lack of reporting on the Super Bowl was, as they say, 'startin' to become a thang'.
"Next hour, we'll talk with John Clay about UK basketball, and with RAYCOM baseball analyst Doug Flynn about...wait for it...SPRING TRAINING coming up in two days. Most teams reporting to Florida, a few headed to Colombia, Guyana or Paraguay. And, the latest updates on ACC and other college basketball and the DBA. All here, on RAYCOM Sports Radio."
RAYCOM Sports Radio, sponsored by Goody's Headache Powder.
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Well BrianD great work on your Alignment of the Dixie Baseball League, Well I Have a Feeling Justin Verlander could get more Pitches in the League, and i hope the Birmingham Barons will win another Fall Classic, The Dixie Series!
I have a sincere question, athletics. Do you see the points of the storyline that Chip has written about in the three threads, and grasp the story he's trying to tell, or are you just seeing the sports-related material?
The sports-related material is secondary...at least it is to me.
I'm not just writing stuff because I think it's cool or interesting.
I'm also trying to shed some light into the culture, the politics and the background of the world these athletes live and play in. A very unique, and complicated world dotted with some very horrible places...like the one you and I live in.
I'm not just writing stuff because I think it's cool or interesting.
I'm also trying to shed some light into the culture, the politics and the background of the world these athletes live and play in. A very unique, and complicated world dotted with some very horrible places...like the one you and I live in.
Louisville, Kentucky, CSA
Wednesday, February 13, 4:53 p.m.
A walk in the woods led him to come across something he should never have seen.
A decision led him to keep that discovery to himself. Another decision led him to come back, with a shovel, only to find nothing in the spot he had been a day before.
Now:
The Clerk found himself sitting in a downtown cell, on the same floor of the building where the most notorious suspects were taken.
His charges?
Sedition. Suspicion of acting with anti-government agencies.
He was roughed up by the police, and questioned, and roughed up some more by CSS. Again, and again.
The Clerk told them the truth, leaving out the part about initially "wanting in" with whomever buried the contraband tech equipment in the first place.
Lady Luck must have been on his side, because instead of landing in a gulag, he got a Get Out of Free jail card. With a catch.
Two Jefferson County Corrections officers escorted the Clerk out of his cell, first to a shower, where he cleaned himself up and put on some clean civilian clothes, then to a second-floor office with two police officers, and a young man sitting at a table with a Bible and a manila folder.
"Hey, brother, welcome, come in," the young man said with a friendly demeanor. The Clerk, still not sure what was going on, kept his composure and sat down at the table.
"I'm Mike," the young man introduced himself, and where he was from - some church near the Highlands - what he did, and why he was there.
"We" - Mike's church, The Reformed Church of the Highlands - "work with the CCC. All kinds of cool things."
Whatever cool was in this day and age, the 47-year-old Clerk hadn't seen it since high school.
After more talk about his cool church and the cool things they did with and without the CCC, Mike finally cut to the chase.
"Your record here is clean. You've lived your life, quietly, no drugs, no alcohol, no crime, no perversion, no sedition. A great guy. The kind of guy we'd, frankly, like to have more of in my church. And that's where I come in, or I should say, Highlands comes in.
"People with your clean record sometimes make mistakes that they look back on and regret."
How would you know, kid. You're barely 25.
"People can do things that they regret, and they pay a really bad price."
Uh-huh.
"And, with what you were brought in for, the police and CSS say you made a mistake that you shouldn't have, that if you were thinking right you wouldn't have."
What I should have done is drove the damn truck down the road into the woods instead of parking near them houses.
"Guys have gone to the gulag because they didn't think straight, but these were people who were clearly intent on disobeying God, His Word in what it says about submission to authority, to following the directives of the enemy...."
Enemy? What in hell? Whose enemy--
"Then, there are guys like you, who have a clean record and a solid reputation, who make one mistake and find themselves facing a punishment that is much harsher than they deserve."
You can say that again, kid.
"Guys like Bubba Sparxx, they sinned, and badly, but the authorities didn't kill them. No, they sent them to a place where they could get their mind right."
Hoooo-ooooo-ly shiiiittttt. I'm going to the gulag.
"No, no. Wait...that's not what I meant, not with you."
Mike smiled, trying and failing to put the Clerk at ease.
"I mean, with Bubba Sparxx, they helped him get his mind right instead of leaving him to rot in prison. What you did was far, far less than what he did. They shouldn't have left you here as long as they did--"
Oh they shouldn't have? Thanks. You and the three blind mice see that.
"...and I apologize for not getting here sooner. Highlands Church works to help men and women like you out of situations that the State Security might like to play overkill with--"
If you meant that, son, about the CSS Bubba and Goon standing behind me would throw your ass in one of those cells before you finished your sentence.
"--and we work to make sure that your good name is cleared with your family, friends, coworkers and the community--"
Great that'll do me looking for work...
"--so after we take you by the doctor for a checkup, you'll go home, get a day of rest, and then go back to work first thing Monday."
Huh?....Now you have my attention, junior.
"Now here's the thing."
Oh...of course.
"State Security wants to make sure your mind is "right". We know what that means."
"Yes."
"In your case...it means not only going back to your regular life, as a loyal Confederate, it also means plugging in to a good group of people. It seems like you're kind of a loner...am I right? Okay. I understand...I'm a people person myself, but we have more than our share of loners and introverts at Highlands. Private people. Not ones to spread their business to others, like you.
"The thing is, our enemy--"
Enemy? Who? Carter? Injuns? Lewis?
"--would like to take your natural tendency to be off by yourself, and isolate you from other human beings, people who care about you and love you and want you to be the best Christian you can be, that you can't be if you're not part of a loving, caring, church family.
"When you're not part of a family, you can, in a sense, go wrong...think and act wrong. And, in a sense, you need Christians who care, in a world that can often not care, to help you get yourself, 'right'.
"Brother, part of the deal is us helping you get yourself right. Now you can say no, and they'll send you back to jail, and you go from there. Or, you can say yes, and what that will look like is you going back to your job, and your neighborhood, and us coming in to smooth things over.
"More importantly, helping you get involved with a group of people who you can connect with, and do life with, and not find yourself in a position where you do something that gets misunderstood by a busybody and you're thrown in jail thinking you're going to the gulag."
An offer I can't refuse.
Jesus or the devil.
Maybe if I say no I'm choosing Jesus?
Wednesday, February 13, 4:53 p.m.
A walk in the woods led him to come across something he should never have seen.
A decision led him to keep that discovery to himself. Another decision led him to come back, with a shovel, only to find nothing in the spot he had been a day before.
Now:
The Clerk found himself sitting in a downtown cell, on the same floor of the building where the most notorious suspects were taken.
His charges?
Sedition. Suspicion of acting with anti-government agencies.
He was roughed up by the police, and questioned, and roughed up some more by CSS. Again, and again.
The Clerk told them the truth, leaving out the part about initially "wanting in" with whomever buried the contraband tech equipment in the first place.
Lady Luck must have been on his side, because instead of landing in a gulag, he got a Get Out of Free jail card. With a catch.
Two Jefferson County Corrections officers escorted the Clerk out of his cell, first to a shower, where he cleaned himself up and put on some clean civilian clothes, then to a second-floor office with two police officers, and a young man sitting at a table with a Bible and a manila folder.
"Hey, brother, welcome, come in," the young man said with a friendly demeanor. The Clerk, still not sure what was going on, kept his composure and sat down at the table.
"I'm Mike," the young man introduced himself, and where he was from - some church near the Highlands - what he did, and why he was there.
"We" - Mike's church, The Reformed Church of the Highlands - "work with the CCC. All kinds of cool things."
Whatever cool was in this day and age, the 47-year-old Clerk hadn't seen it since high school.
After more talk about his cool church and the cool things they did with and without the CCC, Mike finally cut to the chase.
"Your record here is clean. You've lived your life, quietly, no drugs, no alcohol, no crime, no perversion, no sedition. A great guy. The kind of guy we'd, frankly, like to have more of in my church. And that's where I come in, or I should say, Highlands comes in.
"People with your clean record sometimes make mistakes that they look back on and regret."
How would you know, kid. You're barely 25.
"People can do things that they regret, and they pay a really bad price."
Uh-huh.
"And, with what you were brought in for, the police and CSS say you made a mistake that you shouldn't have, that if you were thinking right you wouldn't have."
What I should have done is drove the damn truck down the road into the woods instead of parking near them houses.
"Guys have gone to the gulag because they didn't think straight, but these were people who were clearly intent on disobeying God, His Word in what it says about submission to authority, to following the directives of the enemy...."
Enemy? What in hell? Whose enemy--
"Then, there are guys like you, who have a clean record and a solid reputation, who make one mistake and find themselves facing a punishment that is much harsher than they deserve."
You can say that again, kid.
"Guys like Bubba Sparxx, they sinned, and badly, but the authorities didn't kill them. No, they sent them to a place where they could get their mind right."
Hoooo-ooooo-ly shiiiittttt. I'm going to the gulag.
"No, no. Wait...that's not what I meant, not with you."
Mike smiled, trying and failing to put the Clerk at ease.
"I mean, with Bubba Sparxx, they helped him get his mind right instead of leaving him to rot in prison. What you did was far, far less than what he did. They shouldn't have left you here as long as they did--"
Oh they shouldn't have? Thanks. You and the three blind mice see that.
"...and I apologize for not getting here sooner. Highlands Church works to help men and women like you out of situations that the State Security might like to play overkill with--"
If you meant that, son, about the CSS Bubba and Goon standing behind me would throw your ass in one of those cells before you finished your sentence.
"--and we work to make sure that your good name is cleared with your family, friends, coworkers and the community--"
Great that'll do me looking for work...
"--so after we take you by the doctor for a checkup, you'll go home, get a day of rest, and then go back to work first thing Monday."
Huh?....Now you have my attention, junior.
"Now here's the thing."
Oh...of course.
"State Security wants to make sure your mind is "right". We know what that means."
"Yes."
"In your case...it means not only going back to your regular life, as a loyal Confederate, it also means plugging in to a good group of people. It seems like you're kind of a loner...am I right? Okay. I understand...I'm a people person myself, but we have more than our share of loners and introverts at Highlands. Private people. Not ones to spread their business to others, like you.
"The thing is, our enemy--"
Enemy? Who? Carter? Injuns? Lewis?
"--would like to take your natural tendency to be off by yourself, and isolate you from other human beings, people who care about you and love you and want you to be the best Christian you can be, that you can't be if you're not part of a loving, caring, church family.
"When you're not part of a family, you can, in a sense, go wrong...think and act wrong. And, in a sense, you need Christians who care, in a world that can often not care, to help you get yourself, 'right'.
"Brother, part of the deal is us helping you get yourself right. Now you can say no, and they'll send you back to jail, and you go from there. Or, you can say yes, and what that will look like is you going back to your job, and your neighborhood, and us coming in to smooth things over.
"More importantly, helping you get involved with a group of people who you can connect with, and do life with, and not find yourself in a position where you do something that gets misunderstood by a busybody and you're thrown in jail thinking you're going to the gulag."
An offer I can't refuse.
Jesus or the devil.
Maybe if I say no I'm choosing Jesus?
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"You didn't do nothing," Goon said, out of nowhere. "I've seen people go back in that forest and come out with guns, knives looking like they killed somebody, and go on like Billy Graham. Listen to this kid. You'd be dumb not to."
Bubba nodded. Mike looked from him, back to the Clerk.
"Where do I sign up?" asked the Clerk.
"You didn't do nothing," Goon said, out of nowhere. "I've seen people go back in that forest and come out with guns, knives looking like they killed somebody, and go on like Billy Graham. Listen to this kid. You'd be dumb not to."
Bubba nodded. Mike looked from him, back to the Clerk.
"Where do I sign up?" asked the Clerk.
The Executive Cabinet of the Confederate States of America
President: Newton Leroy Gingrich -- Led a coup against elected President Lamar Alexander in 2003. Had Alexander imprisoned and killed. Gingrich is known as a scholar of history with an affinity for the ways of the First Confederate Republic, ways he feels should be integrated more into what he calls "The Second Confederate Republic". Today's CSA.
Gingrich supports the CCC, but he is wary of the Church Council. Gingrich is a believer in God, but not necessarily a church goer. He sees the "cleric classes" as he calls them as a necessarily distraction to keeping the state on the right path.
Gingrich and Duke at time are adversarial, but mostly he supports the concept of the CSS. Duke sees Gingrich as a person that is useful, until he the CSS can build enough of a power base to take power.
The President is more at home among the military people, because of his longing to secretly be a general in the image heroes such as Lee, Jackson, Longstreet, Patton and Connor...He's good friends with the current Chairman of the Confederate Military High Command. Marshal General Tommy Ray Franks (see below for the story on the highest ranking military leader in the CSA)
Vice President: Carroll Campbell -- Interim VP due to the assassination of Vice President James DeMint in Arkansas, October 2012. Will be replaced in the next Gingrich administration if there is one.
Foreign Affairs: Robert Corker -- The world's most undiplomatic diplomat. A corn pone Gromyko.
National Defense Executive: Zell Miller - Efficient former Senator and well-liked within the defense industries of the CSA
Chairman of the State Security Agency: David Duke -- Rules his fiefdom in the CSS with absolute terror. Seeks to make the Confederacy a stringent security state. Sees the CSS as a "holy mission from Our Lord". A true heir to the Thurmondian ideal of the CSS. The love child of the ruthless Soviet KGB, and the violent 19th and early 20th century Klu Klux Klan.
Confederate Church Council Chairman: Franklin Graham -- The most powerful religious figure in the Confederate States, and closely entwined with the CSS.
Attorney General: Victor Ashe -- One of the earliest officers in the CSS, before resigning to become a federal judge in his native Tennessee. The nation's top cop has no problem ignoring the constitution to build what he calls, "A permanent white hegemony to keep our land free." In the 1980s Ashe was the critical backchannel between the CSA and then-IRNA President Donald Rumsfeld. Ashe considers himself a student in Rumsfeld's political theory since meeting him as a young station resident for the CSS in London in the early 1970s, where Rumsfeld was posted while working as a strategic council for Ohio Defense Corporation.
Communications Executive: Ralph Eugene Reed -- Currently seething over TobyMac getting a private broadcast license. Is very concerned with the "secularization" of the national airwaves. Rumored to have links the "Gang Of FOUR" Calvinist contingent in the CCC Executive.
Industry and Commerce Executive: William Porter Payne -- A Georgia blueblood who represents the money class and big industry. He prefers golf and gin to governance.
National Treasurer: Connie Mack IV - A youngish, enthusiatic cheerleader in the pockets of industry. In many ways he's a protégé of Industry and Commerce Executive Payne.
National Physical Infrastructure: William Reilly -- A dedicated, on-task public servant, stymied by official corruption fostered by the States' Rights landscape of regulation in the CSA. Currently dealing with the fallout surrounding the weak federal response to Hurricanes Katrina and Felicity.
Education Executive: Roy Moore. A favored man among the CCC for his uncompromising stance on religious education, and the "training schools" for young black residents to better prepare them for industrial and agricultural servitude.
Labour, Human Infrastructure and Housing Executive: Robert Renfroe Riley -- Completely unsuited to his position, which make him the perfect useful idiot to maintain the social strata of white Confederate Society.
Health and Social Aid Executive: Richard Scrushy. Firmly in the pocket for the health care industry, and increasingly in the pocket of Soviet Russian-based pharmaceutical concerns. David Duke does not like him. He says Scruschy, "Look as if he is of questionable moral character."
Chairman CSA High Military Command -- Tommy Ray Franks.
Franks family emigrated from the GPUR to the CSA in 1947 along with many who didn't like the idea of full equality status with the Indigenous people. Strom Thurmond used that dissension to grant immediate citizenry to all those fleeing what Thurmond called "Red Tyranny of the Godless Savages." Over 140,000 whites in the frontier nations west of the Mississippi migrated.
Franks rose in the military through the Helms and Lott administrations. He was stymied by the Alexander reforms and citied negatively for his willingness to use the military to quell internal dissent.
He was rehabilitated with Gingrich rise to presidency, and in 2009 was named as Marshal General. The title given the Chariman of the High Command overseeing all Confederate forces.
Even with the support and patronage of President Gingrich, Franks is the target of opposition within the military, especially among the Navy, who see Franks is a tool of the religious-security apparatus at the expense of people who man the forces. There is a strong minority within the highest levels of the Confederate armed forces who would like to see Franks replaced, and a few who'd frag him if they could.
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So can a brother get a map?
Mostly id like to know where are WV, KY, and MO?
Mostly id like to know where are WV, KY, and MO?
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I see. Pretty cool stuff.
Can you reveal anything of the CSA political system more generally? I assume they have a bicameral congress dominated by the Confederate Democrats, with most of the opposition coming from within the party (as we've seen with Fred Thompson's stated intention to challenge Gingrich for the nomination this year), but what about other parties? Did the Radical Liberal Reform Party manage to survive the loss of Carter or did it go down with him?
Can you reveal anything of the CSA political system more generally? I assume they have a bicameral congress dominated by the Confederate Democrats, with most of the opposition coming from within the party (as we've seen with Fred Thompson's stated intention to challenge Gingrich for the nomination this year), but what about other parties? Did the Radical Liberal Reform Party manage to survive the loss of Carter or did it go down with him?
The bare basics:
Kentucky = Confederate States of America
Missouri = Great Plains United Republic
West Virginia = Industrial Republic of North America
The Campaign Ahead
I'm working on the CSA "Fact Book" now. Setting up the numbers and the electoral math just as I did with Willa Cather Landing and Land Of Confusion.
The Confederate Democrats are dominant, but there are two "legal" opposition parties All parties seeking national status must go before the Confederate National Elections Commission to ensure that the party adheres to the CSA's religious, racial and national anti-sedition laws.
The CNEC is an unofficial arm of the Confederate Democrats that has the right annul any party or candidate on a whim. The opposition parties are forced to play "softly-softly" or run dullards in a effort to sneak one or two honest opposition legislators into the CSA House or Senate.
For the most part, the Confederate Whig Party and the Reformer's Party (which is the legal offshoot of the outlawed Reform Radical Liberals) are for mainly continuation of the status quo, at least racially.
2013 however could be different, by a miracle all candidates of the opposition parties were allowed the right to run. An upcoming post will give you the form chart of a crowded field forming for April's national party primaries.
Now the concertation of the real opposition are mounting their own campaign...To disrupt the campaign.
I'm working on the CSA "Fact Book" now. Setting up the numbers and the electoral math just as I did with Willa Cather Landing and Land Of Confusion.
The Confederate Democrats are dominant, but there are two "legal" opposition parties All parties seeking national status must go before the Confederate National Elections Commission to ensure that the party adheres to the CSA's religious, racial and national anti-sedition laws.
The CNEC is an unofficial arm of the Confederate Democrats that has the right annul any party or candidate on a whim. The opposition parties are forced to play "softly-softly" or run dullards in a effort to sneak one or two honest opposition legislators into the CSA House or Senate.
For the most part, the Confederate Whig Party and the Reformer's Party (which is the legal offshoot of the outlawed Reform Radical Liberals) are for mainly continuation of the status quo, at least racially.
2013 however could be different, by a miracle all candidates of the opposition parties were allowed the right to run. An upcoming post will give you the form chart of a crowded field forming for April's national party primaries.
Now the concertation of the real opposition are mounting their own campaign...To disrupt the campaign.
For all the Newbies -- Who's who in North America
Yes, a brother can get a map
Atlantic Maritime States (AMS)
Former Canadian Provinces of Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick
Capital: Halifax
Head of Staterime Minister Peter MacKay
Former Canadian Provinces of Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick
Capital: Halifax
Head of State
rime Minister Peter MacKayMaine Independent Republic
Former U.S. State of Maine. Close trade relations with the AMS, Vermont, New Hampshire, Republique du Quebec and the First Republic of North America
Capital: Augusta
Head of State: President Olympia Snowe
Former U.S. State of Maine. Close trade relations with the AMS, Vermont, New Hampshire, Republique du Quebec and the First Republic of North America
Capital: Augusta
Head of State: President Olympia Snowe
First Republic of North America
Extreme Northern Quebec/James Bay Cree people's land and the area of Nunavut. Recognized by most North American nations, pushing for UN recognition. In conflict with Quebec over boundaries
Capital: Iqaluit
Head of State: Chief-Executive Magistrate Matthew Coon Come
Extreme Northern Quebec/James Bay Cree people's land and the area of Nunavut. Recognized by most North American nations, pushing for UN recognition. In conflict with Quebec over boundaries
Capital: Iqaluit
Head of State: Chief-Executive Magistrate Matthew Coon Come
Republique du Quebec
Independent Quebec, declared after the break up of the Canadian Confederation in 1975
Capital: Quebec City
Head of State: Premier Justin Trudeau
Independent Quebec, declared after the break up of the Canadian Confederation in 1975
Capital: Quebec City
Head of State: Premier Justin Trudeau
New Hampshire Republic
Former U.S. State of New Hampshire
Capital: Concord
Head of State: President Judd Gregg
Former U.S. State of New Hampshire
Capital: Concord
Head of State: President Judd Gregg
The Republic of Vermont
Former U.S. State of Vermont
Capital: Montpilier
Head of State: President Bernie Sanders
Former U.S. State of Vermont
Capital: Montpilier
Head of State: President Bernie Sanders
United Commonwealth of New England
The former U.S. States of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island
Capital: Boston
Head of State: Prime Minister Lincoln Chafee
The former U.S. States of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island
Capital: Boston
Head of State: Prime Minister Lincoln Chafee
Republic of Ontario
Former Canadian Province of Ontario
Capital: Ottawa
Head of State: Prime Minister Jack Layton
Former Canadian Province of Ontario
Capital: Ottawa
Head of State: Prime Minister Jack Layton
Combined Prairie Provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan
Former Canadian Provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan
Voted to begin negotiation to join the Great Plains United Republic. Current Head of State: Premier Greg Selinger
Former Canadian Provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan
Voted to begin negotiation to join the Great Plains United Republic. Current Head of State: Premier Greg Selinger
Industrial Republic of North America
Former Mid-Atlantic and Industrial Midwestern U.S. States
District of Columbia.. New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin
Capital: Washington, D.C.
Head of State: President Joseph Biden
Former Mid-Atlantic and Industrial Midwestern U.S. States
District of Columbia.. New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin
Capital: Washington, D.C.
Head of State: President Joseph Biden
Confederate States of America
The former U.S. States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas and Florida
Capital: Atlanta
Head of State: President Newton Gingrich
The former U.S. States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas and Florida
Capital: Atlanta
Head of State: President Newton Gingrich
Lone Star Republic of Texas
The former U.S. States of Texas and Louisiana
Capital: Austin
Head of State: President Condoleeza Rice-Hill
The former U.S. States of Texas and Louisiana
Capital: Austin
Head of State: President Condoleeza Rice-Hill
Great Plains United Republic
The former U.S. States of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma
Capital: Omaha
Head of State: President Paul Wellstone
The former U.S. States of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma
Capital: Omaha
Head of State: President Paul Wellstone
Rocky Mountain Republic
The former U.S. States of Colorado, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and the Canadian Provinces of Alberta and the Northwest and Yukon Territories
Capital: Denver
Head of State: Prime Minister Ceal Barry
The former U.S. States of Colorado, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and the Canadian Provinces of Alberta and the Northwest and Yukon Territories
Capital: Denver
Head of State: Prime Minister Ceal Barry
Southwest Confederation
The former U.S. States of New Mexico and Arizona
Capital: Phoenix
Head of State: President Rynaldi Becenti
The former U.S. States of New Mexico and Arizona
Capital: Phoenix
Head of State: President Rynaldi Becenti
Mormon Republic of Utah
Former U.S. State of Utah
Capital: Salt Lake City
Head of State: President John Huntsman
Former U.S. State of Utah
Capital: Salt Lake City
Head of State: President John Huntsman
Nevada Free State
Former U.S. State of Nevada
Capital: Carson City
Head of State: First Chief Executive Steve Wynn
Former U.S. State of Nevada
Capital: Carson City
Head of State: First Chief Executive Steve Wynn
Republic of Greater California
The former U.S. States of California, Washington, Oregon and the former Canadian Province of British Columbia
Capital: Sacremento
Head of State: President Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown Jr.
The former U.S. States of California, Washington, Oregon and the former Canadian Province of British Columbia
Capital: Sacremento
Head of State: President Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown Jr.
Alaska
The former U.S. possession of Alaska
Capital: Juneau
Head of State: President Lisa Murkowski
The former U.S. possession of Alaska
Capital: Juneau
Head of State: President Lisa Murkowski
The Hawaiian Pacific Commonwealth
The former U.S. possession of Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, Samoa, Federated Polynesian States
Capital: Honolulu
Head of State: Prime Minister Neil Abercrombie
The former U.S. possession of Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, Samoa, Federated Polynesian States
Capital: Honolulu
Head of State: Prime Minister Neil Abercrombie
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