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	Tim Kent (R-OH)
Lt. Governor	Christopher Bradshaw (R-NC)
Majority Leader	Kaleigh Abercrombie (D-VA)
Minority Leader	Lt. Governor
U.S. Senators
- Shenandoah Valley	Avery Passerday (R-NC) Calum Daniels (D-VA)
- Ohio Valley	Troy Carter (R-OH) Peter Vandenberg (R-OH)
Abbreviation	APP
Web site	Appalachia Government

The Superregion 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 Regional Legislature 2.2 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.

Regional Legislature

Year	Legislature
	GOP	DNC	IND	Maj. Leader	Min. Leader
2009	51	50	0	Lt. Gov	Whitney Mason
2010
2011	48	53	0	Whitney Mason	Vacant
2012
2013	51	50	0	Blake Emerson	Lt. Gov.
2014					Vacant
2015	49	50	2	Lt. Governor	Clay Hamilton7
2016					Dick Solomon
2017	48	51	2	Kaleigh Abercrombie	Lt. Gov.
2018

Office Holders

Electoral Totals in Appalachia since 2008

Year	Governor			Lt. Governor
	Name	Party	State	Name	Party	State
2009	Peter Vandenberg	Republican	Ohio	Caroline Andrews1	Republican	Indiana
2010				Marcus Milam2	Republican	North Carolina
				Vacant
2011
2012
2013	Whitney Mason	Democrat	North Carolina	Gabrielle Garcia	Democrat	Ohio
2014				Vacant
2015				Daniel Pizzuto	Democrat	North Carolina
2016
2017	Tim Kent	Republican	Ohio	Christopher Bradshaw	Republican	Ohio
2018

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)
2017	Peter Vandenberg (R-OH)	Troy Carter8 (R-OH)
2018

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.
• ⁷ 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).
• ⁸ Troy Carter was appointed to fill the seat vacated by Governor Kent.