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	Whitney Mason (D-NC)
Lt. Governor	Daniel Pizzuto (D-OH)
Majority Leader	Dick Solomon (R-OH)
Minority Leader	Lt. Governor
U.S. Senators
- Shenandoah Valley	Avery Passerday (R-NC) Calum Daniels (D-VA)
- Ohio Valley	Jax Jaxal (D-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 Election 2012 2.4 Election 2014 2.5 Election 2016 2.6 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

Ohio Valley Senate, Class 3

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Michael Rubenstein	1,149,749	22.22%
	Republican	Tim Kent	4,024,563	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

Election 2012

Appalachia Governor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democrat	Whitney Mason	7,914,071	54.8%
	Republican	Peter Vandenberg	6,453,825	44.7%
Total			14,367,896

Shanendoah Valley, Class One

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democrat	Daniel Smith	3,077,909	43.9%
	Republican	Avery Passerday	3,906,440	55.7%
Total			6,984,349

Shanendoah Valley, Class Two

Party		Candidate
	Democrat	Calum Daniels
	Republican	William Tavington
		Default Win

Election 2014

Ohio Valley Senate, Class 3

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democrat	Dominic Melville	4,220,108	45.5%
	Republican	Tim Kent	5,028,283	54.2%
Total			9,248,391

Appalachia Lt. Governor

Party		Candidate
	Democrat	Daniel Pizzuto
	Republican	Blake Emerson

Election 2016

Appalachia Governor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democrat	Daniel Pizzuto	7,321,393	46.8%
	Republican	Tim Kent	8,278,414	52.9%
Total			15,599,807

Shanendoah Valley, Class 1

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democrat	Matthias Kimmer	3,361,428	49.6%
	Republican	Avery Passerday	3,397,543	50.1%
Total			6,758,971

Appalachia Lt. Governor

Party		Candidate
	Democrat	Jeff Blank
	Republican	Christopher Bradshaw

Office Holders

Year	Governor			Lt. Governor			Legislature
	Name	Party	State	Name	Party	State	GOP	DNC	IND	Maj. Leader	Min. Leader
2009	Peter Vandenberg	Republican	Ohio	Caroline Andrews1	Republican	Indiana	51	50	0	Lt. Gov	Whitney Mason
2010				Marcus Milam2	Republican	North Carolina
				Vacant
2011							48	53	0	Whitney Mason	Vacant
2012
2013	Whitney Mason	Democrat	North Carolina	Gabrielle Garcia	Democrat	Ohio	51	50	0	Blake Emerson	Gabrielle Garcia
2014				Vacant							Vacant
2015				Daniel Pizzuto	Democrat	North Carolina	49	50	2	Lt. Governor	Clay Hamilton7
2016											Dick Solomon

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 Harrison6 (D-VA)	Richard Schneiter5 (R-NC)
2012			Avery Passerday (R-NC)
2013				Calum Daniels (D-VA)
2014
2015
2016	Jax Jaxal (D-OH)

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 Keith Carter vanished under mysterious circumstances in late 2011. Schneiter resigned in late 2012 before the election.
• ⁶ Chris Harrison was killed after stepping on a landmine in the DMZ in July 2012. Avery Passerday was appointed by Governor Vandenberg to the vacancy.
• ⁶ The office of APP Minority Leader was vacant for several months in 2015 before being filled by Clay Hamilton (R-NC). Hamilton would later resign, after rumors of a possible indictment, and was replaced by Dr. Dick Solomon (R-OH).