Blue: The Pacific Union
President: Janet Napolitano (Progressive Party)
Parties: Progressive Party (A socially and Economically liberal party, but allows moderates), New Liberal Party (Socially moderate and economically conservative), Green Party (Mainly an urban party of left-wingers)
Capital: Lake Tahoe (A federal district would encompass the area)
Disputes: Early on had a dispute with the Confederacy over Eastern border, specifically concerning areas of Texas wanting to join the Pacific Union. Eventually after a minor ground war a deal is reached (The Pacific Union purchases the new area from the Confederacy) and the Pacific annexes the Hispanic-majority sections of Texas and incorporates the new territory as the state of Rio Grande.
Note: I am assuming that Canada in this situation would also have troubles and as such the Pacific Union includes British Columbia and the Yukon Territory.
Grey: The Great Plains Republic
President: Sam Brownback
Parties: New Democrat Party (Much like ours today except a step or two to the right on almost every issue), Conservative Party (Socially and Economically conservative)
Capital: Wichita
Disputes: Involved in the Great Missouri War (more to be said later on), ended up acquiring most of Western and Central Missouri, including Kansas City (roughly 55% of current state).
Green: Union of the Great Lakes
President: Russ Feingold
Parties: Liberal Party (Left-leaning party), Center Party (A moderate party), National Coalition (Three or so right-leaning parties of various degrees that work together in elections and overtime simply form one party, ranges from very conservative and religious to Rockefeller Republicans)
Capital: Chicago
Disputes: Involved in the Great Missouri War (more to be said later on), ended up acquiring lands neighboring it in Missouri and St. Louis though total land area from original state at only around 15%.
Red: Confederate States of America
President: Sonny Perdue
Parties: Conservative Party (Socially conservative and economically liberal), National Party (Religious and very conservative), Labor Party (party of the minorities and liberals)
Capital: Atlanta
Disputes: Involved in the Great Missouri War (more to be said later on), ended up acquiring the Ozarks region of Missouri in the south (roughly 30% of the current state), though no major population centers.
-Fought briefly with the Pacific Union over hispanic areas of Texas, ultimately ceded areas along the Rio Grande
-Took all but the Northern 1/3 of Kentucky and the southwestern and central-southern areas of Virginia in agreement with negotiations with the Union of the Great Lakes and the United States of North America
Blue: United States of North America
President: Hillary Clinton
Parties: Progressive Party (Socially and Economically Liberal), Labor Party (Economically liberal and socially moderate), Social Democratic Party (Further to the left of the Progressives)
Capital: Washington D.C.
Disputes: Took most of Virginia (roughly 2/3 of the state), after negations with the Confederacy
Green: New England
President: Howard Dean
Parties: Same as United States of North America, except that the Labor Party operates under the title "New Democratic Party", and is much less powerful.
Capital: Boston
Gray: Florida
President: Charlie Christ
Parties: Republican, Democrat (same as our current parties, except the republican party is much more moderate, especially on social issues and the democratic party is much more dependent on hispanics)
Capital: Miami
How the disputes unfolded:
Missouri was quickly the most divided state and after a short period of negotiations war quickly broke out. At the beginning it was a free-for-all and the Confederacy seemed to be on its way to victory. After a few defeats the Union of the Great Lakes and the Great Plains Republic agreed to work together against the Confederacy and slowly turned back their forces. During this time negotiations were also going on in reference to Virginia, and the Conferderacy, fearful of another front quickly gave the United States of North America most of their desired territory. After recieving news of mistreatment of minorities in Texas and pleas for help the Pacific decided to intervene and invaded, because of the conflict in Missouri the Confederacy quickly sued for peace and sold the Rio Grande region to the Pacific Union at a small cost (only $5 billion!). Eventually after 2 years of heavy fighting a truce was signed and Missouri was divided up. The borders of Kentucky had been agreed to earlier. The Florida Panhandle was allowed to vote on whether to join the Confederacy or stay in Florida and decided to join up with the Confederacy. Puerto Rico entered into union with Florida after a short time.
Canada: After the collapse of the US Canada too fell apart. It started with Quebec voting for independence and went on from there. BC joined the Pacific Union, Alberta the Great Plains Republic, while the Maritimes established their own republic. Ontario, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut retained the name of Canada... but really it was no more.
