republican party

I was looking for possible alternate Republican presidents during the Gilded Age, and I came upon an interesting fact. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the hero of Little Round Top, went on to become Governor of Maine after the Civil War. He eventually left the political sphere and lived life as a...

As we all know, the Republican Party is the main liberal party in the United States of America while the Democratic Party is the main conservative party in the US, but what if the roles of the two parties were reversed with the Democrats being the liberal party while the Republicans are the...

CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY Hey guys, welcome to Christian Democracy: this is a collaborative timeline again. According to the Pew Research Center, "The Faith and Family Left combine strong support for activist government with conservative attitudes on many social issues." and based a Reddit post here...

Since Lyndon B. Johnson served less than 2 years of JFK's original term, in 1968 he was technically allowed to run for another term of office, and he did. He ultimately withdrew from the Democratic primary in the face of great division within the party. But what if LBJ had a united Democratic...

"Yes we can!" -Obama '08 Campaign Chant Hey guys, this is another collaborative TL, detailing on a different Obama administration that hypothetically lives up as much as possible to what liberals dreamt of after Obama won. The POD is that Bruce Lunsford and Ronnie Musgrove win the Kentucky and...

For a TL i'm writing, which involves butterflying away Reagan's election in 1980 (ITTL, he never even sought the nomination that election cycle), I'm hoping to get some insight on a few things about a potential Jack Kemp Presidency. Who would be a likely VP choice for Kemp? What would his...

What would it take for the Democrats to become socially conservative and keeping white working class voters without the South post-1964 Civil Rights Act? There seems to be a running plot in AH that you an American political party can't be socially conservative if that party loses the South...

Hey guys, welcome to "The Change We Can Believe In", a collaborative TL tinkering on how and what Bill Clinton could*** have done differently while in office. Everyone can post their ideas, for as all as they do not involve ASBs. Apocalyptic/dystopic scenarios are banned. A 1994 Republican...

How do you think would this affect American politics? What would Carter and Democrats do during the 1980s?

On January sixth 1919 Theodore Roosevelt would be hospilitized due to a blood clot. Roosevelt had already been suffering through health problems, so he decided against running in 1920. Roosevelt endorsed his former running mate Hiram Johnson. Johnson also received endorsements from Lenard Wood...

Prologue The year of 1968 was, without a shadow of doubt, one of the most pivotal moments in recent american history. In the spawn of only 12 months, violence, indignation with the status quo and a burning desire for change would bring foward a new era in America...

Let's assume that in 1975, Lynette Fromme succeeded in assassinating Gerald Ford. Nelson Rockefeller ascends to the Presidency. Who does he choose as his VP? And assuming both that he does seek his own term in 1976, and is elected, what does America look like during/after his Presidency...

What if the 1976 Republican convention ended with a completely different nominee?

Many Americans (well based on posts from AH and Internet articles) say that Bill Clinton's tenure could have been much different, much more "transformative", many would say. I have seen suggestions from various threads on AH.com that could have made Bill's eight years better from an American...

There are numerous ways in which this could happen. For example, have Carter or the 1976 Democratic nominee lose to Ford or Reagan. Then by 1980, when things go awry for the incumbent Republican. the people will now be sick of 12 years of GOP rule and the turmoil of the years 1978-80, and crush...

In the above scenario, how would the Deep South vote, with the Democrats, as I've maintained, socially conservative and economically progressive, while the Republicans are moderate, Rockefeller-Eisenhower moderates?

Your challenge is to push voter turnout up in the US in all 50 states. Bonus points if you are able to make voting compulsory. Be plausible, of course, that's all :)

Perhaps if the Dems turn to the right on social issues, make the economy truly progressive and the New Deal coalition is retained and experience a far-reaching Revolution on the scale of OTL Reagan's in the chaos of the 1980 election, and the South stays Democratic. The Republicans are the ones...

The secular opposition was actually in control of Iran's revolution before Khomeini stepped in. Butterflies resulting would be no Iranian Hostage Crisis, obviously, as the Iranians wouldn't be so fanatical. However, I saw that the oil crisis was caused by the protests that started even before...

Ok, so this is a series on populist vs. moderate dynamics. This time, how would Upper New England (Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire) vote with a moderate, Rockefeller-type GOP?