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  1. MacArthur vs. Eisenhower and other military presidential races

    I wish I could find that Army Times article for you. Basically, their poll found support for the GOP among the military is at an all time low, something like 40% if I remember right. As a general rule there are far more vets who've run as Dems than Repubs. It wouldn't surprise me if independents...

  2. Recolonization of Latin America

    But it's not in Latin America. Just sharing part of the name of the region means little. And many Cubans, Dominicans, and Puerto Ricans would disagree with you. The most likely prospects involve a victorious Confederacy. A winning CSA might enable Napoleon III to defeat Juarez. An...

  3. AH Challenge: President Spiro Agnew

    Actually it comes straight from Haig himself, from an interview on This Week With David Brinkley right after Oliver Stone's Nixon came out. George Will was esp upset over the claim in the film, and Haig was brought on to refute it. But Haig stunned everyone by saying it actually did happen...

  4. AH Challenge: President Spiro Agnew

    Watergate happens earlier, but Agnew's own corruption is not discovered. Nixon takes his own life, as Alexander Haig worried he might have prevented IOTL. He discovered Nixon drunk and incoherent one night at the height of Watergate, with a bottle of pills and a loaded revolver. Haig took the...

  5. Plausibility Check: Victory in the Nam

    You might have more credibility to your claim if you didn't use the propaganda term "VC". Their real name was the NLF and like the name points out, they were a broad front, a coalition that including a minority of Communists among them. Most of the so called VC weren't Cong/Communist. This...

  6. WI: Khomeini Is Killed, 1979?

    If I recall right, the Shah's son also made the offer to return to the throne following Khomeini's death. It was mostly ignored, except for some scorn. Part of the problem with your POD is that there's no reason given for all these groups to stand with the Shah's son. The regime and its...

  7. Challenge: President Kucinich

    Bush dies from illness or accident between 9-11 and the 2004 election and Cheney becomes pres. Kucinich becomes the VP choice of a moderate Dem who sees him as a way to secure his left flank. Said moderate Dem wins in 2004 only to die from accident or illness. Seriously, I can't think of any...

  8. Consequences of Earlier Texas Annexation

    The first was three decades in the future, the second about a decade away. But there had been US filibusters since the 1790s, and the warhawks were a strong enough faction. I agree though, that it's unlikely Spain would be the main target. There's still so much anti-English sentiment in the...

  9. WI: The Indian Removal Act of 1830 is defeated?

    IOTL public opinion was split down the middle on the issue, and the vote passed narrowly. Twice the vote could have gone either way, once in comittee, and once in the general vote. Jackson would probably try to remove the Five Tribes anyway. But in this century, Congress was considered...

  10. No Conscription in America

    Perhaps US leaders (and that part of the business community backing some wars) simply do as they've done with the current Iraq War, turn to mercenaries, so called contractors. Really, that's how Bush was able to avoid turning to the draft, which would've made the war unpopular in a NY minute...

  11. No Crack Cocaine

    A much smaller prison population also means smaller numbers of Blacks and Latinos barred from voting. The most dramatic change might be in Florida, where a majority of Black males are unable to vote. So FL goes to Gore in 2000, unambiguously...and all that leads to. Hip hop would have far less...

  12. No nuclear bomb

    The only way I could see is if somehow the Earth simply doesn't contain much in the way in nuclear material, or it's all very inaccessible. And not being a geologist, I couldn't tell you if that idea is itself utterly ASB or not. You might then see chemo and bio weapons taking nukes' place...

  13. If Richard Nixon Beat Kennedy, would nixon get assasinated

    The Shawnee themselves don't believe in this myth about the curse. It's about as believable as those stories by L Ron Hubbard where he claims the Blackfoot made him a blood brother. IRL, Indian spiritual leaders don't put curses on anyone. Any healer doing so would be regarded as a witch and...

  14. Shamanic Empire?

    A syncretic mixed belief is not so hard. When the Prince Regent leaves Portugal for Brazil because of the threat of Napoleon, have him fall ill and be cured by one of healers in the Afro Brazilian faiths. But "shamanic" traditions are more difficult, largely because they generally aren't...

  15. WI: Confederate Generals turning mercenaries after Civil War

    If Forest flees, who is most likely to become the head of the KKK? George Gordon? Any others whose flight would be beneficial to the minority population and general peace in the southern states? (Yes, I've heard the argument Forest "quit the Klan because it got too extreme." I don't buy it.)

  16. AH Challenge - A Radical American Revolution!

    Not just that. A TL where slavery ends far earlier in the US means a nation that has to come to grips with the issue of rights for Free Blacks. You could easily see all the same issues that came up in the Haitian Revolution happening in the US, slave vs free vs newly freed vs still enslaved...

  17. Genetically-Engineered "New Soviet Man"

    Their New Man wasn't a mindless drone. Essentially it's a stronger version of the Perfectability of Man idea pushed ever since the Renaissance, that stripped of the corrupting effects of the worst parts of western tradition, traits like greed, corruption, and selfishness will fall away. So you...

  18. 1840s-50s immigration to Texas

    Not really. The biggest city, San Antonio, starts out as a series of Indian missions. A few were criollo, but their numbers were smaller. Most were mestizo. And some were Indio by descent (esp Tlaxcallan and Opata), though assimilated culturally by the time of the indep uprising. There are still...

  19. AH Challenge - A Radical American Revolution!

    The simplest way would be to bring race into the equation even more than IOTL. IOTL the British offered freedom to slaves who fought vs the independence mvmt. Imagine two scenarios: 1. Britain or more likely local British officials, do what they'd done in Bacon's Rebellion. They offer slaves...

  20. Challenge: Japanese less harsh in WW2...

    Windschuttle's a white supremacist, with lots of deeply racist arguments about Aboriginals and Asians and claims about the inherent superiority of whites. He even took part in a documentary with other white supremacists. You should pick better sources. Granted, your argument seems to be to try...
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