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Some states - Arizona, Nebraska - appear to have been completely static this century, those could as well have happened today.

Also, there's some sexy columns on the last page, remember to look!
 
But seriously- what I'm getting from this is that Arizona's Democratic Party was a mess back in the day.

You could make a serious case for pre-1950's Arizona being either a one party state, or a two-and-a-half party state (the two parties being the progressive Democrats, the conservative Democrats, and the Republicans making up the half-party). Multiple times, mostly in the 1940's, there were no Republicans in the executive or legislative branch. That's some Solid South shit right there.

But yeah, the early elections were weird. More people voted in the Democratic Primaries then for the official Democratic nominee (usually Hunt), and elections would swing from close (again usually Hunt) to completely blowouts (usually when a conservative Democrat scraped through in the primary, like Mouer; or when they were ridiculously popular, like Osborn). After the 1950's started, more people came into the state and the Democrats stopped being this impossibly big tent of left, center, and right. The Republicans started being the main conservative party instead of the Democrats, helped by many Pinto Democrats jumping ship.

I give you all, Nebraska

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Where is the impossibly large coalition of everyone-who-isn't-a-Republican?

Some states - Arizona, Nebraska - appear to have been completely static this century, those could as well have happened today.

Also, there's some sexy columns on the last page, remember to look!

Not really, for the reasons I described above.
 
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The Southern National Party was the main party of the Southern United States for more than a century. It split off from the mainstream Democrats in 1880, during a dispute over tariffs - and, more broadly, Democratic concessions to the "rebellious" North. From that election onward, it maintained control of the South's electoral votes, Congressional seats, and state governments, largely through corruption, vote fraud, and cronyism. The anti-corruption activities of the Hoover administration and Walsh court took a bite out of the SNP's power, but they bounced back in the 1930s on the strength of populist rhetoric and policies like that of Louisiana Governor and two-time Presidential nominee Huey Long. It retained its power for the next half-century, largely on the strength of cultural concerns and populist policies, as well as charismatic politicians like George Wallace and Pat Robertson.
In 1990, the Southern Independent Party, led by more liberal Southern Nationalists like Bill Clinton, Sam Nunn, and Ray Mabus, split off from the main party. This went a way towards making Southern politics competitive for the first time in decades, but was soon overshadowed by the SNP's joining H. Ross Perot's Party of Regions in 1996. As that party collapsed, many former SNP members jumped ship and joined the SIP, quickly taking it over.
However, some did not.

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The modern, or "continuity", Southern National Party was formed in 2002 by former members who left the Party of Regions when it collapsed but refused to join the liberal Southern Independent Party. Its most notable success was the election of Professor John Eidsmoe to the House of Representatives - however, that success did not last long enough to re-elect him. Since then, it has mostly acted as a cross-endorser for sufficiently conservative Southern Independents.


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United States presidential election, 2012
Wilkinson v. Louisiana
New England independence referendum, 2015
'Aha'ōlelo Hawai'i elections, 2014
Robert Zimmerman
H. Ross Perot Speedway
Oak Ridge Reactor protests
 
<<Previously


While resentment over royalties would lead Nintendo to undermine the Super Famicom's CD-ROM adapter, the Play Station, in the early days few developers foresaw this troublesome spite. Indeed, Square's Secret of Mana seemed poised to usher in a new era of excellence for video games. Its gorgeous animation, CD-quality music, and sprawling story with multiple pathways to varied endings altogether seemed like a miracle. For a time the game was the most talked about in Japan, selling nearly half a million copies in total and helping move previously tepidly-received Play Station hardware units.

Overseas, however, Secret of Mana didn't have the strength of the Square brand to support it and JRPGs were years away from mass popularity. Few Westerns had even purchased a "SNES-CD". Its high price and lack of First Party content, which was never to arrive after multiple 'delays', soured parents on such a high-priced toy, especially coming on the heels of having to buy a whole new Nintendo system that didn't even play NES games. Thus, Secret of Mana flopped hard because the Play Station had flopped — overseas.

In Japan, however, it helped carve out an ecosystem for Third Party developers interested in exploring the possibilities of CD gaming, especially as they lacked the financial incentives Nintendo did about focusing solely on cartridges. It was quite the opposite, in fact. The main limit was the modest install base and lack of export market. The former would gradually increase over the Play Station's lifespan. The latter would never materialize, alas.

To the horror and envy of Western gamers, the Japanese market alone supported a modest but vibrant ecosystem for the Nintendo Play Station, boasting many games that either never made their way overseas or had to be striped to the bones for a "cartridge port". This included many JRPGs. Western role-playing game fans might identify Secret of Evermore or Final Fantasy 3 as their favorite role-playing games of the SNES Era. Names familiar to Japanese players would only be known to them thanks to fuzzy screenshots in gaming magazines: Terranigma, Final Fantasy V, Seiken Densetsu 3, and of course...

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Where Final Fantasy V had seriously suffered from lag in its "CD port" while battle screens loaded, and Final Fantasy VI had featured limited voice acting only during cut scenes that featured in-game sprite assets, Final Fantasy VII had been designed from the ground up with the CD format in mind. Indeed, it lacked a "cartridge port" due to its sheer size, and stands as one of a handful of Play Station games that spans two discs. With voice acting for the main characters and a handful of 'anime'-style cut scenes, and a darker more mature plot that presaged many JRPGs of the following console generation, Final Fantasy VII represents a bridge between the Golden and Silver Ages of JRPGs. This quality is often overlooked by Western players due to the decade-long delay in the game's export.

Final Fantasy VII is set primarily in a steampunk analogue of New York City, Midgar, and follows 'Joe' — a private eye — as he investigates a series of eco-terrorist bombings. The trail leads him across a colorful cast of characters from all social levels of the city, until circumstances force him to side with the very criminals he was hunting. But as Joe trapses across the world, following clues about the missing years of the mysterious Sorceress Eden, he finds himself forced to question not only the effectiveness of his hot-blooded nature but his human nature as well...
 
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Divided Against Itself

qNUFhaJ.png


The Southern National Party was the main party of the Southern United States for more than a century. It split off from the mainstream Democrats in 1880, during a dispute over tariffs - and, more broadly, Democratic concessions to the "rebellious" North. From that election onward, it maintained control of the South's electoral votes, Congressional seats, and state governments, largely through corruption, vote fraud, and cronyism. The anti-corruption activities of the Hoover administration and Walsh court took a bite out of the SNP's power, but they bounced back in the 1930s on the strength of populist rhetoric and policies like that of Louisiana Governor and two-time Presidential nominee Huey Long. It retained its power for the next half-century, largely on the strength of cultural concerns and populist policies, as well as charismatic politicians like George Wallace and Pat Robertson.
In 1990, the Southern Independent Party, led by more liberal Southern Nationalists like Bill Clinton, Sam Nunn, and Ray Mabus, split off from the main party. This went a way towards making Southern politics competitive for the first time in decades, but was soon overshadowed by the SNP's joining H. Ross Perot's Party of Regions in 1996. As that party collapsed, many former SNP members jumped ship and joined the SIP, quickly taking it over.
However, some did not.

vC04iqO.png


The modern, or "continuity", Southern National Party was formed in 2002 by former members who left the Party of Regions when it collapsed but refused to join the liberal Southern Independent Party. Its most notable success was the election of Professor John Eidsmoe to the House of Representatives - however, that success did not last long enough to re-elect him. Since then, it has mostly acted as a cross-endorser for sufficiently conservative Southern Independents.


Previous:
United States presidential election, 2012
Wilkinson v. Louisiana
New England independence referendum, 2015
'Aha'ōlelo Hawai'i elections, 2014
Robert Zimmerman
H. Ross Perot Speedway
Oak Ridge Reactor protests
I like the Internet code address. :)
 

So we got the Beta Idea of FFVII being the Detective Joe Storyline with Cloud being a mix of barret and vincent? that would be fun, so graphics would looks like this (Note that is the graphics level we used for FFVI CD version in Player Two Start, but the tl differences explain a lot, as always inviting people to read the TL, please read it,:)

Seems ITTL Gameboy Nova become the place when SNES-CD Classics got a second chance to shine after ITTL Nintendo and Sony infigthing make the SNES-CD flounder...

Wonder how will affect this? with popular SNES-CD, that will presure sega to have saturn ready as fast they can...maybe the did get the memo and included 3D at the last minute? with N64 Equivalent still years to come they would get a time advantage or buy their time and instead got wit the Sega Saturn V08 project(short summary, a Sega Saturn simplied in the west Using NVIDA NV2 who integrated GPU AND AUDIO, thus mega cheaper and even far more powerful to the exotic japanese Saturn)

The Gameboy Nova... so far stronger OTL one, maybe closer to a DS with single screen and no touch? that would be a formidable 2D-3D machine.

So far amazing infobox series, this timeline would be ultra fun.
 
So, I have all the UK logos done, but I need to do some recalculations to finish stuff up. So, as a preview:

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The Party of Wales was originally founded in the 1920s in order to help preserve Welsh language and culture, and the party's dramatic rightward shift in the 40s and 50s was based on the same grounds. Inspired by the Black Tide and rise of the new populist politics, Plaid Cymru rejected Civic Nationalism and embraced ethnic nationalism in order to effectively oppose the unionists and seek the rebirth of the Welsh nation. The Byddin Poblogaidd Newydd, or New Popular Army, was related outgrowth of cultural tensions, and the terrorist group has committed attacks against English "colonizers" in Wales. The fact that a majority of residents in Wales consider themselves English or just British just means that the BPN has plenty of targets. While Plaid Cymru officially has no ties with BPN, the reality is that the two organizations coordinate their efforts in order to maximize Plaid Cymru's political gains.. This has led to tensions between the English Labour Party and Plaid Cymru. Along with Ar Athnuachan, these parties make up the separatist bloc in parliament, and have all promised to dissolve the union the moment they could form a government. While the ELP resents the Welsh Nationalists for their violence, many ELP leaders would secretly admit that these attacks don't exactly hurt the separatist cause.

While still officially a socialist party, the party's platform more closely reflects the dirgistic, nationalist socialism of parties like the Canadian Action Party or the Gallic Renaissance Party, as opposed to modern market socialism. Plaid Cymru tends to deviate from its populist peers by being relatively accepting of body modification and technological advancement. The party hopes to use this technology to help build up their population and economy, once the colonizers have been removed.
 
Decentralised Interconnected Public Repository (for) Information, United States, POLitical, SOUTHERNINDEPENDENT.
Seems that we were generally thinking on similar lines (reversing the OTL order) when we invented our Internet codes. :)

Mine is country-purpose-website(-subpages), using dashes where you used commas.

au-disc-historiadiferente is a good example of this. au (Aurelia, a country) disc (discussion) and historiadiferente (website).
 
So, I have all the UK logos done, but I need to do some recalculations to finish stuff up. So, as a preview:

plaid_cymru__uk____2068_c_e__by_machinekng-dadtsbm.png


The Party of Wales was originally founded in the 1920s in order to help preserve Welsh language and culture, and the party's dramatic rightward shift in the 40s and 50s was based on the same grounds. Inspired by the Black Tide and rise of the new populist politics, Plaid Cymru rejected Civic Nationalism and embraced ethnic nationalism in order to effectively oppose the unionists and seek the rebirth of the Welsh nation. The Byddin Poblogaidd Newydd, or New Popular Army, was related outgrowth of cultural tensions, and the terrorist group has committed attacks against English "colonizers" in Wales. The fact that a majority of residents in Wales consider themselves English or just British just means that the BPN has plenty of targets. While Plaid Cymru officially has no ties with BPN, the reality is that the two organizations coordinate their efforts in order to maximize Plaid Cymru's political gains.. This has led to tensions between the English Labour Party and Plaid Cymru. Along with Ar Athnuachan, these parties make up the separatist bloc in parliament, and have all promised to dissolve the union the moment they could form a government. While the ELP resents the Welsh Nationalists for their violence, many ELP leaders would secretly admit that these attacks don't exactly hurt the separatist cause.

While still officially a socialist party, the party's platform more closely reflects the dirgistic, nationalist socialism of parties like the Canadian Action Party or the Gallic Renaissance Party, as opposed to modern market socialism. Plaid Cymru tends to deviate from its populist peers by being relatively accepting of body modification and technological advancement. The party hopes to use this technology to help build up their population and economy, once the colonizers have been removed.
I "liked" this due to the work you did, but I certainly don't like Plaid going fascist! :eek:
 
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I "liked" this due to the work you did, but I certainly don't like Plaid going fascist! :eek:

I'll admit it. I felt bad making this one. Really, the UK has some of the most screwed up politics in Europe. Maybe not as screwed up as Russia, Finland, Poland, France, Serbia or Hungary, but still pretty screwy.
 
I'll admit it. I felt bad making this one. Really, the UK has some of the most screwed up politics in Europe. Maybe not as screwed up as Russia, Finland, Poland, France, Serbia or Hungary, but still pretty screwy.
Yeah. Party of Regions for me. And I pray Plaid's lunacy doesn't doom the Welsh nation as well.
 
Seems that we were generally thinking on similar lines (reversing the OTL order) when we invented our Internet codes. :)

Mine is country-purpose-website(-subpages), using dashes where you used commas.

au-disc-historiadiferente is a good example of this. au (Aurelia, a country) disc (discussion) and historiadiferente (website).

I think it makes sense as a top-down sort of thing. My main influences were Usenet and file directories - did those influence yours as well?
 
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