American Spring (1983: Doomsday)

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The American Spring (also known as the Second American Revolution or the 2011 North American protests) was an unprecedented revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests among the successor states of the United States of America. Beginning in March 2011 with the Committee to Restore the United States of America (CRUSA) sponsored pro-democracy protests in the Municipal States of the Pacific, the protests evolved into widespread calls to unite the scattered survivor states under the Stars and Stripes again. In the Municipal States and many other communities, the Spring also included calls for democracy and civic participation after many years of postwar authoritarian rule. The protests shared techniques of civil resistance in sustained campaigns involving strikes, demonstrations, marches and rallies, as well as the support of CRUSA agents in organizing and sustaining these protests.

The Spring had profound effects on both the internal and diplomatic politics of the region, changes which continued to reverberate years later. Many communities enacted liberal reforms and/or pursued closer ties to the restored United States. The Spring also provoked a backlash. Many independent regimes cracked down on the movement, while some ordinary people, especially those resentful of or too young to remember the old United States, turned their back on its vision of the American Dream.

Background

North America prior to the American Spring

Doomsday devastated much of the United States, provoking wholesale social and political collapse in many parts of the country. The remnant of the American government was convinced to divide into three separate administrations that would try to regain control over different parts of the country. One in West Virginia quickly devolved into military rule until the region was incorporated into the militaristic Commonwealth of Virginia. Another in Colorado faltered and was essentially absorbed into the Wyoming state government. A third in Hawaii was the most prominent and lasted the longest because it was led by the president, George Bush, and could count on the support of two allies, New Zealand and Australia. This became known as the American Provisional Administration (APA).

But the APA also struggled to maintain its limited territories - limited to Hawaii, Alaska, and various island territories scattered throughout the Pacific. It faced repeated crises in its own states and repeated failures to make progress along the mainland West Coast. This hampered its efforts to keep the United States alive. The Crescent City Crisis of 1993, a successful referendum for Hawaiian independence in 1994, and weariness with the financial burden on the part of New Zealand and Australia brought about the end of the administration. President Bush announced in 1995 that the APA would disband.

Nevertheless, the "American spirit" remained alive in many parts of the world. The founding of the Committee to Restore the United States of America in 1995 created an organization of American exiles dedicated to the restoration of the United States. The organization, founded in scattered parts of Oceania, grew by leaps and bounds in the 2000s as new chapters began in continental United States, though reception was mixed.

Various survivor states, meanwhile, kept alive American institutions and traditions even as they adapted to their own involuntary independence. As communications were re-established, American states collaborated on trade and infrastructure. They often found that their shared history and culture facilitated good relations between them. Communities in some regions began a process of reunification, such as the Municipal States of the Pacific (2006), the Republic of Florida (2011) and the Republic of Texas (2012).

In the same period, the pieces of the former USA were engaging and interacting more with the rest of the world. Road and rail connections allowed for more imports from Mexico. Goods and people came by sea from all of Latin America as well as Australia and New Zealand.

In 2009, the Republic of Superior and its allies fought against Canada in the Saguenay War, the first North American war to get widespread attention around the world. Canada was supplied with modern arms and support from the Atlantic Defense Community, but Superior still managed to fight it to a standstill. The news demonstrated that there was more to the American survivor states than bleak, third world countries and dismal camps of survivors, as most of the world had come to believe.

That same year saw a major expansion of the North American Union to new breakaway states in the American west - Utah, Dinétah, and Pasco all joined, while Cascadia was on the pathway to membership. The defensive and economic bloc suddenly had far more strength and reach than before. This also caught the world's attention and brought new attention to the Provisional United States of America, the Union's largest member, which had hitherto been very isolated due to its inland location and sections of heavy damage from fallout.

At the same time, this sort of regularized diplomacy convinced people at all levels in the PUSA that their own government represented the principal movement and best hope for the reunification of the country. It was operating as a fully independent nation, and most of its neighbors were pursuing their own independence, not restoration.

What was more, the PUSA could claim continuity with the prewar republic to a unique extent, since a few surviving members of Ronald Reagan's cabinet had played a role in its foundation. The republic published a report on the continuity of the United States government, and President Allard had it disseminated to the world via the WCRB - indicating that he wanted the PUSA to assume the mantle of the old United States on the international stage. Shortly thereafter, the republic declared that it was dropping its "provisional" status: the United States was restored. As the international community and the American survivor states debated the repercussions of this act, pro-unification supporters everywhere found fresh heart in their goal to reunite the American survivor states under the Stars and Stripes.

Countries and Regions

Northeastern United States

New England

States:

• Connecticut
• Maine
• Massachusetts
• New Hampshire
• Rhode Island

Mid-Atlantic

States:

• New Jersey
• New York
• Pennsylvania

Southern United States

East South-Central

States:

• Alabama
• Kentucky
• Mississippi
• Tennessee

South Atlantic

States:

• Delaware
• Florida
• Georgia
• Maryland
• North Carolina
• South Carolina
• Washington, DC
• West Virginia

West South-Central

States:

• Arkansas
• Louisiana
• Oklahoma
• Texas

Midwestern United States

East North-Central

States:

• Illinois
• Indiana
• Michigan
• Ohio
• Wisconsin

West North-Central

States:

• Iowa
• Kansas
• Minnesota
• Missouri
• Nebraska
• North Dakota
• South Dakota

Western United States=

Mountain

States:

• Arizona
• Colorado
• Idaho
• Montana
• Nevada
• New Mexico
• Utah
• Wyoming

Pacific

States:

• Alaska
• California
• Hawaii
• Oregon
• Washington