Appalachia

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Appalachia

Capital	Columbus
Largest city	Columbus
Notable Metropolitan Areas	Alexandria-Northern Virginia, VA (split with Mid-Atlantic and Washington D.C.) Cleveland, OH Cincinatti, OH-KY Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Hampton Roads, VA Indianapolis, IN Columbus, OH Louisville, KY-IN Richmond, VA Charlotte, NC (split with Dixie) Dayton, OH Akron, OH Raleigh, NC Toledo, OH (split with Heartlands)
Regions	States
Shenandoah Valley	Virginia North Carolina West Virginia
Ohio Valley	Ohio Indiana Kentucky
Area	Ranked ?th
- Total	242,475 sq mi 628,005 km²
- % water	5.59
Population	Ranked ?th
- Total	40,315,459 (2000 Census)
- Density	166.27/sq mi  64.20/km² (?th)
Governor	Peter Vandenberg (R-OH)
U.S. Senators
- Shenandoah Valley	Richard Schneiter (R-NC) Chris Harrison (D-VA)
- Ohio Valley	Terry Hughes (R-OH) Tim Kent (R-OH)
Abbreviation	APP
Web site	Appalachia Government

The Superreion of Appalachia comprises of the Ohio Valley and Shenandoah Valley regions, consisting of six States. Along with Big Sky Country and Mississippi Valley, it is one of the only superregions which lacks a single-state region within it.

It was named, presumably, after the Appalachian Mountains, which approximately form the boundary between the two constituent regions.

Contents 1 Adjacent Superregions 2 Politics 2.1 Election 2008 2.2 Election 2010 2.3 Office Holders

Adjacent Superregions

• North: Canada (across Lake Erie)
• East and Northeast: Mid-Atlantic (and Washington D.C.)
• West and Northwest: Heartlands, and a very small boundary with Mississippi Valley
• South: Dixie

Politics

Appalachia is an overall Republican-leaning superregion, with Republicans holding an overall 3.5 point advantage in party registration over the Democrats. Nearly all of the Republican margin of comfort comes in the Ohio Valley, where Republicans hold a 6.1 point advantage; in the Shenandoah Valley, the GOP holds a miniscule 0.2 point advantage, making the Shenandoah Valley one of the most evenly divided regions in the nation. As a result, the Ohio Valley tends to be strongly Republican, the Shenandoah Valley has been a heavily contended battleground, and Appalachia as a whole leans Republican.

Election 2008

Appalachia Governor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Chris Harrison	5,407,996	48.89%
	Republican	Peter Vandenberg	5,653,581	51.1%
Total			11,061,577

OV Senate, Class 3

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Michael Rubenstein	4,024,563	22.22%
	Republican	Time Kent	1,149,749	77.78%
Total			5,174,312

Election 2010

Shenandoah Valley, Class One

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Chris Harrison	3,207,718	49.6%
	Republican	Richard Schneiter	3,200,493	49.5%
Total			6,408,211

Ohio Valley, Class One

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Jax Jaxal	3,466,852	40.6%
	Republican	Terry Hughes	5,002,081	58.5%
Total			8,468,933

Office Holders

Year	Governor			Lt. Governor			Legislature
	Name	Party	State	Name	Party	State	GOP	DNC	Maj. Leader	Min. Leader
2009	Peter Vandenberg	Republican	Ohio	Caroline Andrews1	Republican	Indiana	51	50	Lt. Gov	Whitney Mason
2010				Marcus Milam2	Republican	North Carolina
				Vacant
2011							48	53	Whitney Mason	Vacant
2012

Senators
Year	Ohio Valley		Shenandoah Valley
	Class 1	Class 3	Class 1	Class 2
2008	Terry Hughes (R-OH)	Vacant	James Olsen (R-VA)	Jared Daniels (D-NC)
2009		Tim Kent (R-OH)
			Richard Schneiter3 (R-NC)
2010				Keith Carter4 (D-VA)
2011			Chris Harrison (D-VA)	Richard Schneiter5 (R-NC)
2012

Footnotes

• ¹ Caroline Andrews was eaten by a leopard while visiting Yemen in 2009.
• ² Marcus Milam vanished under mysterious circumstances sometime in 2010.
• ³ Richard Schneiter was appointed by Governor Vandenberg after James Olsen resigned in 2009.
• ⁴ Jared Daniels became a game administrator; Keith Carter was appointed by the Democratic Party to fill the remainder of Daniels' seat.
• ⁵ Richard Schneiter was appointed by Governor Vandenberg after vanished under mysterious circumstances in late 2011.