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I've noted in the past--there will probably be a Napoleone Buonaparte because that was a family name but he's not going to be OTL's Napoleon, having at best a roughly similar father and nothing else even remotely in common.

Ayyup. 1920s Oregon. "We were founded as a free soil state, and that is why we are so very fond of that sterling organization, the Klu-Klux Klan."

That was literally their Gilded Age platform. Oh, and they insisted that their opposition to immigration... was tied philosophically to their opposition to slavery. In conclusion, the Gilded Age was terrible.

It's worth pointing out that the Rockefeller Republicans were a dwindling force when they first acquired the nickname 'Rockefeller Republicans'.

You can do better. I've actually hit over 5% and 11 faithless electors. Yes, it goes to 11.

One is reminded how Marie Antoinette's reply when people were trying to get her to buy the Diamond Necklace on the grounds of 'prestige' that the price they were asking could purchase at least one and possibly two battleships, a purchase not only more practical, but better for prestige.

For that matter Joseph Bonaparte’s full name was Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte. And that great-uncle was himself named after previous Napoleon Bonapartes. It was a family name.

"Napoleon" as we know him doesn't exist. Neither of his parents were born prior to the POD, and while a person very much like his father is probably hanging around Corsica and likely serving as somebody important's secretary or assistant, an equivalent to his mother was almost certainly never...

New York State has always been the country in miniature.

Just the 20th century? Remember, Boss Tweed's career came to an end in part because he failed to handle the tensions between the city's Irish and its Scot-Irish.

Ahh, William Craig. A man who truly thought he could keep control of the beast he'd summoned up in any circumstances.

And now it is time to consider the organization that about half the now defunct AAFC are joining. As noted, the NFL are as close to venerable as the world of professional football gets. This needs to be understood--professional football is in a strange, transitionary time. It is not the...

Because Ford has served seven years as President and thus is not eligible. To be eligible for a second elected term, he would need to have succeeded Nixon in 1975, not 1974.

Marshall will die eventually. And create a charitable foundation which will include the stipulation that none of its funds go to causes and individuals backing integration. That one will be stricken by the courts.

Oh, McCarthy's definitely getting a football team. I guarantee it.