Great Britain: the 51st state

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Hard to tell really... why people vote for who they vote for over here is class based to a degree you don't see alot of in the U.S, exactly how "moral" issues would effect things is debatable. As an example all those textile marginals that stuck with Labour this year (some even swing towards us) would have probably voted for Bush, some (like Colne Valley) pretty heavily.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I thought Bush was pretty resoundingly hated in Britain?

Yes... but I'm assuming that Britain had been part of the U.S for a while.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Surely that would be enough to make Britain firmly Democratic?

In terms of registration yes, although not usually in Presidential elections as far as actual votes go. My guess would be that Britain would have voted for Clinton in '92 and '96 (Perot would have done fairly well in '92), Gore in 2000 and Kerry last year. Bush sr. would have won fairly narrowly in 1988.

Mind you Britain would probably have been split into states rather than admitted as a whole country; Wales, NI and Scotland would all be seperate states and England would probably be divided into at least two states, maybe three.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Not sure to be honest, but I figured that GB was a lot more conservative then than it is now

Not especially. Some areas are. Some areas have gone the other way.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

For the earlier elections, note that the real life 1950, 1951, 1955, 1959 and 1964 elections could all have gone the other way.