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Post by ttt on Jul 30, 2017 19:09:19 GMT
From an alternate timeline where the Phillippines stayed American, and sometime shortly after World War II was admitted as 3 states (the borders seen above; names would be up for debate). An ASB takes this Phillipines to otl in March 2009. Said ASB makes Congress accept statehood along the lines from said universe. What happens next?
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Post by ttt on Jul 30, 2017 19:28:06 GMT
How does China react?
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Post by steve59 on Jul 30, 2017 21:22:46 GMT
Good question but also what alignment are they? Presuming either Republicans or Democrats that could complicate an even more fraught situation in Congress at the moment.
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Post by ttt on Jul 30, 2017 21:32:29 GMT
Good question but also what alignment are they? Presuming either Republicans or Democrats that could complicate an even more fraught situation in Congress at the moment. I assume you have 6 new Democratic US Senators (given how poor and non-white the state is), but i could be wrong. In any case this helps Dems quite a bit - they might even keep Congress post-2010.
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Post by MinnesotaNationalist on Jul 31, 2017 0:32:41 GMT
I've never been a big fan of the "Philippines as a State" scenario. Firstly, no matter how the state is divided up, the Filipinos would have an egregious amount of power in the House of Representatives and in the Elector college (Like, I believe the Philippines would have about a third to a quarter of the US Population, so expect a fairly similar amount of seats and EC votes there too), and the more the Philippines are divided, the stronger they would be in Senate. As long as the majority of the US doesn't like Hispanics or Hispanic influence, I have a feeling that the Philippines won't be accepting the Union.
Of course, this is by admission ASB, but still (in honestly my point about US not liking Hispanic influence would be underlined more in 2009)
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Post by ttt on Jul 31, 2017 0:47:47 GMT
I've never been a big fan of the "Philippines as a State" scenario. Firstly, no matter how the state is divided up, the Filipinos would have an egregious amount of power in the House of Representatives and in the Elector college (Like, I believe the Philippines would have about a third to a quarter of the US Population, so expect a fairly similar amount of seats and EC votes there too), and the more the Philippines are divided, the stronger they would be in Senate. As long as the majority of the US doesn't like Hispanics or Hispanic influence, I have a feeling that the Philippines won't be accepting the Union. Of course, this is by admission ASB, but still (in honestly my point about US not liking Hispanic influence would be underlined more in 2009) There would be issues. This is why i had to shoehorn in the ASB doing these things...
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