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2038-05-01: Conservative lawmakers in the western half of the country announce the unilateral departure of several dozen counties to form a new pan-American rival government known as the “United Federal States of America”. Although there is hope at the time by proponents that this would eventually subsume all the states of the Patriot and Lewis and Clark Compacts, this would not come to pass. Nevertheless, they would quickly find favor with their neighbors to the north. Modern historians draw comparisons of the constitutional structure of the U.F.S.A. to that of the old Articles of Confederation, including the weaknesses that led to the eventual downfall of both regimes.
2038-05-01: The increasing atomization of the country has largely convinced the remaining members of the Lewis and Clark Compact, who have effectively been organizing their own government for months at this point, of the need to assert their independence from the old constitutional order.
