Louisiana Rebellion

The Louisiana Rebellion was a brief armed conflict between residents of the US state of Louisiana and the United States of America, in early 2081. Anger over the results of the 2080 United States presidential election, in which Green Party candidate and Louisiana native Annie Brown won a plurality of the popular vote and the electoral vote, but after which the United States House of Representatives voted in the Republican candidate, Caleb Webber, to be the next president, was the main cause.

Annie Brown herself did not support the rebellion in her home state of Louisiana, believing that it would end in vast destruction across the entire state, but anger quickly boiled over and the state legislature and governor Cameron Meredith formally passed a resolution to declare independence from the United States on January 29th, 2081, just 9 days after Webber took office.

Conflict
The self-declared Republic of Louisiana reached its greatest territorial extent around 6 February 2081; most of Louisiana was under their control, as well as a large section of southwest Mississippi west of the Pearl River. However, in the second week of February 2081, the U.S. tripled the number of troops they had stationed in the area, and the U.S. captured Baton Rouge on 13 February 2081, ending the two-week-long war. Governor Meredith was killed in the final offensive of the U.S. army into the Louisiana State Capitol.

Split of Louisiana into two U.S. states
Following the conflict, the state of Louisiana split into two; the state of West Louisiana consisted of the part of Louisiana west of the Atchafalaya River, which was generally less supportive of the rebellion than East Louisiana. However, in an effort to not increase the political power of Louisiana, each state only had one senator from 2081 to 2086, when this move was repealed by the 37th Amendment, alongside a reform of the U.S. Senate that gave each state three senators instead of just two.

Political consequences
In May 2081, the 35th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed, formally disbanding the Electoral College, as a concession following the conflict. President Caleb Webber's approval rating rose significantly during and immediately after the conflict, but Annie Brown's vocal opposition to the conflict kept many anti-rebellion groups on her side, and she won a massive landslide victory in the 2084 presidential election.