Big Sky Country
From Usgs
| Capital | Oklahoma City | ||
| Largest city | Oklahoma City | ||
| Regions | States | ||
| Great Plains | Kansas Nebraska North Dakota Oklahoma South Dakota | ||
| Rocky Mountains | Alaska Idaho Montana Utah Wyoming | ||
| Area | Ranked 1st | ||
| - Total | 1,454,351 sq mi 3,766,877 km² | ||
| - % water | 7.01 | ||
| Population | Ranked 8th | ||
| - Total | 14,797,410 | ||
| - Density | 10.17/sq mi 3.92/km² (8th) | ||
| Governor | Keiko Kagura (R-MT) | ||
| U.S. Senators | |||
| - Great Plains | Valeria Smith (R-OK) Rayne Cauthon (R-KS) | ||
| - Rocky Mountains | Thomas Cabell (R-UT) James Lightfoot (R-WY) | ||
| U.S. Congressmen | |||
| - Rocky Mountains | Lucien Kaine (D-UT) | - Rocky Mountains | Brad Johnson (D-UT) |
| Abbreviation | BSC | ||
| Web site | Big Sky Country Government |
The Superreion of the Big Sky Country comprises of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain regions, consisting of ten States and nearly half the landmass of the United States. Although it is the largest superregion in the nation in geographic size, only about 5.2% of the nation's population lives within it. Nine of its states are within the contigious United States, and Alaska is detatched, making it the only Superregion aside from the West Coast not to be entirely connected by land.
It was named, presumably, after Montana's nickname - "Big Sky Country" - in order to emphasize the region's clean air, open space, and distant horizons.
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Adjacent Superregions
- East: Mississippi Valley
- South: Sunbelt
- West: West Coast
- North: Canada (to the east of Alaska)
Politics
The Big Sky Country has the dubious distinction of being the most heavily slanted Superregion in the country. Registered Republicans in the Big Sky outnumber Democrats 2:1. Big Sky as a whole, and both regions within it, have only three Democrats to higher office - two of them Lt. Governors and one a Congressman. The legislature has flirted with a Republican super-majority since 2008.
Election 2008
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Office Holders
Executive
| Year | Governor | Lt. Governor | ||||
| Name | Party | State | Name | Party | State | |
| 2009 | Daniel Mallory5 | Republican | Oklahoma | Roger Hoyle1 | Democrat | Alaska |
| 2010 | ||||||
| Vacant | ||||||
| 2011 | Duke Williams | Republican | Kansas | |||
| 2012 | ||||||
| 2013 | Duke Williams | Republican | Kansas | Vacant | ||
| 2014 | ||||||
| 2015 | Daniel Mallory | Republican | Oklahoma | Graham Cummings | Democrat | Utah |
| 2016 | ||||||
| 2017 | ||||||
| 2018 | ||||||
| 2019 | Damien Austin | Democrat | Oklahoma | David Anderson | CU | Montana |
| 2020 | Vacant | |||||
| 2021 | Tom McLaughlin | Democrat | Oklahoma | Carry Ann Yearling | Republican | Utah |
| 2022 | ||||||
| 2023 | Keiko Kagura | Republican | Montana | |||
| 2024 | ||||||
| 2025 | ||||||
| 2026 | ||||||
Legislature
| Year | Legislature | Year | ||||||||||||
| House | Senate | |||||||||||||
| GOP | DNC | CU | Speaker | Maj. Leader | Min. Leader | GOP | DNC | CU | President PT | Maj. Leader | Min. Leader | |||
| 2009 | 64 | 37 | N | Calvin Broadmouth (WY) | Andrew Stark | Lt. Gov | None | 2009 | ||||||
| 2010 | 2010 | |||||||||||||
| John Sanders | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | 63 | 38 | Waylon Grabowski | Edwin Borodin | 2011 | |||||||||
| 2012 | 2012 | |||||||||||||
| 2013 | 67 | 34 | Michael Worthams | Graham Cummings | 2013 | |||||||||
| 2014 | 2014 | |||||||||||||
| 2015 | 61 | 34 | 6 | Libby Tonks | 21 | 11 | 2 | Newt Vanleer (ID) | Alexander North | Hank Johnson | 2015 | |||
| 2016 | 2016 | |||||||||||||
| 2017 | 55 | 35 | 11 | 17 | 15 | 2 | James Lightfoot, Jr. | 2017 | ||||||
| 2018 | 2018 | |||||||||||||
| 2019 | 55 | 35 | 11 | Carry Ann Yearling | Lucien Kaine | 18 | 14 | 2 | 2019 | |||||
| 2020 | 2020 | |||||||||||||
| 2021 | 60 | 31 | 10 | Graham Cummings | 19 | 14 | 1 | Noel Peterson | 2021 | |||||
| 2022 | 2022 | |||||||||||||
| 2023 | 56 | 38 | 7 | Arty Zipolo | 18 | 15 | 1 | 2023 | ||||||
| 2024 | 2024 | |||||||||||||
Senators
| Senators | ||||||||||
| Year | Great Plains | Year | Rocky Mountains | Year | ||||||
| Class 1 | Class 3 | Class 2 | Class 3 | |||||||
| 2008 | - | Valeria Smith (R-OK) | Vacant | - | 2008 | - | William Pope4 (R-ID) | Vacant | - | 2008 |
| 2009 | Joshua Long (R-KS) | 2009 | Lucien Cobb2 (R-UT) | 2009 | ||||||
| 2010 | 2010 | Adrian McConnell3 (R-ID) | 2010 | |||||||
| 2011 | - | 2011 | 2011 | |||||||
| Rufus Cato (R-MT)6 | ||||||||||
| 2012 | 2012 | 2012 | ||||||||
| Keiko Kagura (R-MT) | ||||||||||
| 2013 | 2013 | - | 2013 | |||||||
| 2014 | 2014 | 2014 | ||||||||
| 2015 | - | 2015 | - | 2015 | ||||||
| 2016 | 2016 | 2016 | ||||||||
| Thomas Fletcher (R-WY) | ||||||||||
| 2017 | - | 2017 | 2017 | |||||||
| 2018 | 2018 | 2018 | ||||||||
Footnotes
- 1 Roger Hoyle died in November, 2009, but his body was not discovered untill April, 2010. During that time, he remained Lt. Gov.
- 2 Lucien Cobb resigned in late 2009.
- 3 Adrian McConnell resigned in mid 2011.
- 4 William Pope resigned in mid 2012.
- 5 Daniel Mallory resigned in 2012, immediately following the election. Duke Williams was elevated to Governor.
- 6 Rufus Cato died in office in 2016.
Major Cities
| Rank | City | Population |
| 1 | Oklahoma City, OK | 531,324 |
| 2 | Omaha, NE | 414,521 |
| 3 | Tulsa, OK | 382,457 |
| 4 | Wichita, KS | 354,865 |
| 5 | Anchorage, AK | 275,043 |
| 6 | Lincoln, NE | 239,213 |
| 7 | Boise, ID | 193,161 |
| 8 | Salt Lake City, UT | 178,097 |
| 9 | Overland Park, KS | 164,811 |
| 10 | Kansas City, KS | 144,210 |
| 11 | Souix Falls, SD | 139,517 |
| 12 | Topeka, KS | 121,946 |
| 13 | West Valley City, UT | 118,917 |
| 14 | Provo, UT | 115,135 |
| 15 | Olathe, KS | 111,334 |
