Between Two Majorities | The Cordray Administration

[GlobeSoc]

I have to say that I don't really get the WWC swinging so strongly to the Dems in this timeline, considering the recent trend has been in the opposite direction.

They are a toss up/lean R demo, and only the most impoverished white areas/already dem white areas vote democratic. Black and Latino turnout increasing also helps cause the massive shift in rural areas, especially southern/southwestern ones.

[GlobeSoc]

3 states left

edit: 4 states, including the pineapple man's dungeon

[GlobeSoc]

How easy would it be to do Puerto Rico? In a Dem alignment I could see it becoming a state.

Also, why is the Appalachian region of Ohio that much more Republican than the Appalachian region in Kentucky and Tennessee?

A municipal map of post realignment Puerto Rico would be very interesting.

I could try, but that would be a week in the future at the earliest. I would also need to look for data and a decent blank map

[GlobeSoc]

Post your analysis plz

[GlobeSoc]

What state is has the highest democratic PVI? Looks like it's Mississippi based on your map.

[GlobeSoc]

The large parts of America left behind by today's economy



Not surprisingly, this map correlates very well with that county map made by Eggman, with the more comfortable and prosperous communities in the North (such as in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Connecticut and NJ) shifting more towards the technocratic GOP and distressed areas in the Appalachian areas and the South shifting towards the Cordray Democratic Party after an economic based realignment.

Damn, i didnt even intend to create a map that correlated so strongly to that...

[GlobeSoc]

Hopefully next weekend ill be able to start revising the map. Post criticisms and make your case. I have my eye on a few places already, but i want your input.

[GlobeSoc]

Sorry for being MIA, guys. I had some personal business to work out requiring me to take a sabbatical from Atlas to handle them. Then life kind of happened and I have to deal with full time school, plus a full time job, and a new place and assorted various things. So yeah, I haven't had the time to devote to this as I did in the past.

Maybe next year, I might do more stuff here but right now, I don't really have that much time. I am on Discord, where I annoy Technocratic Timmy unduly and the walrus. I am really proud of what they've done regarding the work in BTM, especially walrus. You guys have done a fantastic job building on BTM.

And yes, I know North Korea has been in the news with increased speculation about a military strike. Yes, I know the timeline predicts Trump to order a military strike on North Korea tomorrow. I'm painfully aware.

I appreciate the overall concern though.

Ayyy

[GlobeSoc]

Trump strikes at North Korea Regime; Disables Nuke Program

(October 2017) -- (Washington, D.C.) -- President Donald Trump struck at the North Korean regime in a surprise attack at dawn (Pyonyang time) and disabled the nuclear program that the regime had built. After months of warning and negotiations between the United States and China, the Americans had decided to unilaterally disarm Kim Jong-Un’s nuclear capabilities.

Just in time TD

Do you mean October 2017?

[GlobeSoc]

It is very unlikely Cordray -- or any Democrat -- is elected Governor.

[GlobeSoc]

Worth noting that the Democratic wave of 1974 (which hasn’t been replicated in scope by either party since) came only two years before Ford nearly won re-election, and only six years before Reagan’s new realigning coalition came along.

In 1974, 43 House incumbents retired, which was one of the highest numbers in decades (1952 had 40 retirements) After 1974, the number of retirements kept increasing for both the House and the Senate:

House:
1974-43
1976-47
1978-49
1980-34

Senate:
1974-7
1976-8
1978-10
1980-5

Basically throngs of old school New Deal era politicians of both parties started retiring (plus the ones that were defeated). This slowly hollowed out both parties in preparation for the coming realignment.

When Boomers took over Congress in the Republican Revolution of 1994, you see the same pattern in the amount of retirements:

House:
1990-27
1992-68
1994-48
1996-49

Senate:
1990-4
1992-9
1994-9
1996-13

The amount of House retirements since 1996 has never gone above 40 (at least according to the data going up till 2012)

In unrelated news, the next retirement from the house of representatives this cycle will be its 40th.

[GlobeSoc]

Mars and the Moon have enough population for statehood???

And I wouldn't be surprised if Guam, NMI, and the Virgin Islands aren't even states while the MOON is

Yeah, not to mention that I seriously doubt the rest of the world would just allow the US to grab the entire Moon for themselves. Most likely it would just be some sort of international protectorate I guess.

In fact, isn't space by current rules basically neutral ground?

Then again at that point it's basically sci-fi so who really knows?

well I'd argue that "The Moon" and "Mars" in the context of Jalawest's election night would be shorthand for "The American Lunar Sector" and "The American Martian Sector"

[GlobeSoc]

Me and Spenstar have agreed to collaborate on a timeline covering the political, social, and economic landscape in the 2032-2056 period. More details will come out as the project progresses.

[GlobeSoc]

god i remember when i was a neeeeerrrrd bernie bro making those unrealistic maps and spamming this thread with them. I would give my past self a verbal wedgie for being so boringly stereotypical lol. Interventionist Internationalist Anti-Anarchist Anti-Authoritarian Flexible Futurist Socially liberal but anti-reparations and anti-prison abolition but pro-state backed immigration* Cybersocialism is where its at

*Where the socialist state, instead of simply opening the borders, uses the fact that its borders are *mostly* open as a geopolitical weapon against its enemies. Such an example of this would be giving all women from the arabian peninsula the ability to either apply for or retroactively get a permanent residency visa to the US and making this fact extremely public on a consistent basis.