US with Canadian parties

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West Virginia would have been an NDP, not Liberal stronghold.

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West Virginia would have been an NDP, not Liberal stronghold.

Maybe, but look at Cape Breton, a similar area in Canada. It's very Liberal, even to this day.

Cape Breton has Catholics, WV doesn't.

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Where does this idea that there's only Cape Breton to compare to come from? Plenty of mining areas vote NDP. That's what a lot of the NDP tradition in Northern Ontario (for example) is based on. Though more questionable is DC as a longterm NDP stronghold, actually. I don't see that.

DC voting NDP would probably need to mean that blacks vote solidly NDP, which I also don't really see. Blacks in Canada usually vote Liberal pretty solidly.

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I think it's best to do these things based on Canada outside Quebec. Quebec is so... unique it would hardly carry over to the US or most other places except like Spain or maybe Italy.

Also, the PCs in the 1990s would never carry UT, ID, OK, ID or IN.

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Here's 1993

1997

2008

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I really think Vermont would be an NDP strong hold these days. It seems comfortable with having a Socialist US Senator, and remember the NDP would have to be even more moderate if we are using the same popular vote totals.

Yeah, maybe. Would have been a PC stronghold until 1993, for sure. The problem is that there aren't many Vermonts in Canada except maybe BC Southern Interior, where the NDP voting is much deeper than just "rural hippies" and is fairly class/ethnic based. BGOS/Dufferin-Caledon has some rural hippie areas like we pointed out in the Ontario 2011 thread, but they seem Green or Liberal.

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We could use DRA for doing this, you know. I'd do a few if I hadn't gotten 600 things on my plate.

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Worth pointing out that the Catholic = Liberal thing is nowhere near as absolute as it used to be.

But it's still pretty important, and if we're looking at the pre-06 era, it's even more important.

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Canadian names need to contain at least 70 names of random villages connected by emdashes (at least in Quebec).