No. The old Democratic Party lives on through several constituencies that would rather crawl over broken glass than vote Republican, including immigrants, reactionaries, and yeomen. While their ability to wage a national campaign against the dominant Republicans has been effectively destroyed, they still exist in one form or another at the local level. The main three ways they appear is through moderate Eastern financiers (represented by Tilden in 1864), midwestern and Border farmers who care mostly for economics (the group Pendleton tried to appeal to), and reactionary racists (Johnson's demographic). All these groups can still contest Republican power at a local level.
Unfortunately, you're right that nothing substantial has improved for Native Americans.1) A relationship immortalized by Tommy Lee Jones and S. Epatha Merkerson in the Daniel Day Lewis biopic Lincoln.
2) Don't worry about it.Other than settling accounts with the British Empire (reparations, which ITTL may well be larger than IOTL), only "Imperial"
3) VERY UNLIKELY to see an alliance or amalgamation between Labor factions and the Populist Party. The Populists never made inroads into the Northeast or West Coast and did poorly in the Great Lakes.
While ITTL they are much more likely to make deep inroads into the Deep South, their inherent anti-"Papist" bigotry makes it impossible for them to ever be taken seriously by political forces dominated by labor unions that have among them teeming numbers of Roman Catholics (Irish, Italians, Germans, Poles, etc, etc, etc...).
4) Good idea. Just enough to show the butterfly effects of TTL on Europe, and those butterfly effects that later on touch upon the United States. The latter effect being muted by the expected long term (33 years?) American Isolationism seen with America's obsession with internal development. Or to put it more bluntly, the American People won't care for the next couple of generations over matters going on in the outside world, being so busy as they will be. Namely, conquering the Old West and slaughtering our Native Americans.
After all, there's little to indicate that there's been any real changes (IIRC) to TTL regarding White America's treatment of its native populations. The Sand Creek Massacre, frex, will probably happen, on schedule, and tragically, unchanged.
I think you're misunderstanding. I don't see the Populists becoming the other national party. Rather, that once the Republican split happens the local chapters of Labor Republicans will ally with constituencies that Populists appeal to, in a form of fusion, eventually coalescing into the second national party. This happened IOTL, where several successive "insurgencies" challenged Democrats in the South, from Greenbackers, to Readjusters, to Populists, all appealing to traditionally Republican constituencies (read, Black people), and managed to carry the endorsement of or fusion with the Republicans. We'll basically see the contrary here - Labor Republicans, in order to compete in the South, would appeal to Southern Populists in the South, and to other parties in other regions. Because the politics we'll see are probably going to be both highly local and dependent on fusion arrangements.
It'll certainly be.
Yup, gotta say I am not too fond of spicy food. And I've never even seen much less tasted the peppers you mention lol. It just isn't the cuisine I'm used to. It amuses me to see gringos talk of how White people can't handle spice and Latinos love it, when gringos probably like spicy food way more than the millions of non-Mexican Latinos.
On that note, what areas would you say are the remnants of the Democrats most prominent in, especially with the sectors of society who are most likely to go Democratic here?
I am usually down to try almost any cuisine there certain exceptions mostly focused around the fact I don't like meat that looks like the animal it comes from IE animal heads or whole arthropods, cephalopods, or molluscs or some pickled things, I just can't seem to like Olives no matter how many times I try them. Also I like more veggies then fruits for some reason.
Especially with US isolationism pre-WW2 IOTL meaning that butterflies would be relatively limited compared to a later timeline where the US would have been more "active" internationally.
That too, thought I should note that I was mostly speaking about narrative issues. I prefer a timeline that has a clear focus to one that tries to cover everything.
- Eastern urban centers, with their immigrant populations that are racist, and looked down upon by the Republican WASPs.
Interesting. Maybe I'll try someday. Thanks for the recommendation.
I... what?
Probably. To paraphrase a certain quote, so many brillant minds could never reach their potential because they were toiling in sweatshops or cotton fields. A more established Black community will be able to birth many inventors, artists, and poets.
Very True. Freedom and Equality do not just help the specific individuals impacted, but the whole society. Allowing people to reach their full potential instead of them to confining them to an enforced role is going to impact the rest of the society.
Ever come to Spain, go to Galicia and try your luck with the local Padrón peppers - spiciness is a bit random. We even have a refrain about them: "Pimientos de Padrón, unos pican, otros non".
I am going to assume you meant banana peppers, in which case I agree. Banana peppers are the ideal amount of spiciness for my taste.
You don't need to apologize. I'm always privy to the possibilities until the setting of the TL and the OTL facts make it impossible / ASB, which in the case of Maximillian surviving, it is. After all, I'm still on the "Empire of Brazil surviving ITTL" hype train to this day.
There's also the fact that rapid industrialization in the South and the influx of more free labor could spark innovations with the emergence of small businesses, factories, and locally owned farms throughout the region.
Hahahaha
Hopefully with a more honest, less racist, Patent Bureau. Google "The Real McCoy" to learn of what happens when people ignore rightful patents by Black inventors.
Exactly.
Now, that does sound interesting.
I also wish for a better Latin America...
But surely we can make it less destructive than the OTL war?
Of course. Reconstruction also affected Northern States, many of which also expanded Civil Rights, public services, and progressive laws for a while, until they too engaged in a retreat from Reconstruction as the "respectable middle class" came to support laws that discriminated against the poor and minorities as a necessary vanguard against "un-American communism."
Well, if the longterm effects of a successful Reconstruction is that the political culture of the United States is more keen on democracy promotion, then you could see more pressure on Diaz to finally pick a successor and step down so Reyes could just become President. The administration in charge could also just back TTL equivalent to Madero.
