Recent content by Jasen777

It's possible, but not the most likely IMO.

It's 113 miles (in a straight line) from Alexandria to Shreveport and that's after going down the Mississippi a good distance and back up the red river just to get to Alexandria. I'm not sure the schedule works for them to be back for Grant's offensive, especially as contraband seizing and...

Not an expert but I don't know if a raid of Shreveport at this point is feasible logistically...

Sorry, I missed where you said "DRA 2020 app".

Ambitious. What do you use to determine PVI?

That might be optimistic.

I do wonder how things would have gone if someone hit the planter class over the head with a clue-by-four about what a civil war would mean. So they just did politics where they still had SCOTUS and the filibuster in the Senate, just how long they could have kept slavery.

Yes, and it could take less for the financial crisis could hold off until December.

A Vermin Supreme that could win a nomination is not the Vermin Supreme from history, so who knows?

Most countries wouldn't come. It's be like the 1904 Olympics.

I changed my password before trying the test forum (to prove I could remember my password). Had to use my old password to log in on the test board though.

The lost cause wasn't just about the war, it was about the traditional white supremacy in the South that through the war and reconstruction had temporarily lost, and which was regained in the aftermath. That is the cause isn't necessarily the Confederacy, it was the way of life that the...

Of course the U.S. held an Olympics in 1904 that few other countries attended. And there were they boycott in '80 which reduced the number of countries almost in half. They could certainly go through with it even if not many other countries can send people.

Yes.

IDK. But the U.S. will likely be buying most of that oil, probably with U.S. companies, at the very least, helping to develop it. Trade with Asia will still be coming from California via rail. Is there less seen need for a canal without the U.S. on 2 oceans, or more, if they do want to...