Recent content by overoceans

"Larger Black Population in the South" would do the trick. And would be closer to your meaning, because your headline, as written, implies that you want the South to be geographically bigger, in addition to being more Black. But that doesn't seem to be what you're asking for.

I'm pretty sure Britain didn't have the power to sell Canada in 1914.

Yeah, I was a pretty big fan of anything with Tim Conway and/or Don Knotts in that era. Mostly saw them on TV, though: Carol Burnett, Three's Company etc, plus The Private Eyes, a lumpen-Mel Brooks parody of detective movies. And it's sad about Bill Bixby, losing his only child at such a young...

Just to clarify, Iran's offer was that they(Iran) would send the al-Qaida people to the Americans, and the Americans would send the MEK people to the Iranians? The way you worded it might sound like the opposite, but that would make less geopolitical sense.

I've read LoA. It's pretty intetesting, but a bit of a grab-bag, just kinda throws a bunch of people and events at you in chronological order, without much overarching analysis, besides "the CIA is pretty stupid and evil." And when I once tried to confirm a particular story from the book(I...

I don't know if he ever coulda become president, but I'd like to see Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard have a successful political career. Devout Adventist(conservative religious appeal), fervently anti-Communist(advantage obvious), a pro-business ethos(see previous), BUT with political and...

In Canada, Social Credit originally rose to power in 1930s Alberta, under evangelical protestant leadership, and soon migrated over to Quebec, where it took on a heavily Catholic flavour. Not sure if the Quebec creditiste were ever linked to Distributism, but I've never seen any mention of...

Africa really is the one place that puts the kibosh on that whole Cold War "Oh yeah? Well, your side is worse!" routine. You can find examples of both the West and the Communists supporting the absolute most repulsive dictatorships imaginable. The exceptions were guys like Nyerere and Kaunda...

Given what I guesstimate to be Castro's legitimate popularity in Cuba at the time, you probably have roughly half the population willing either to fight against the Americans violently, or at least be totally adverse to co-operating in any way with the occupation, eg. insurgents could kill an...

Well, you can probably forget about Cool Britannia.

I think that was just smug British leftists assuming that Americans will always vote for a far-right crackpot, even an obscure no-name leading a lobby-group that some Republicans felt it prudent to denounce, and who would have totally alienated his own party if running at the presidential level...

They, along with the Brits, almost certainly provide most of the cash for running the Commonwealth. And, unlike the British, they have sometimes functioned as an honest-broker between the Motherland and the developing-world colonies(see eg. Diefenbaker and Mulroney on Apartheid South Africa).

Don't know enough to agree or disagree with that, but I do think that, as a recognized left-winger within the Democratic Party, Dean would need to fortify his right flank. And a military hero, whatever his actual views, is gonna be almost automatically seen as an All-American patriot, and...

As far as I know, Lincoln was pretty non-commital about any plans he might have had for the former slaves post-bellum. Interestingly, in Birth Of A Nation, Lincoln is poryrayed as an ally of the South and its planter class, and his murder as opening the door for the Radical Republicans to...

Well, he also postured as "honest broker but leaning toward the Palestinians" during the Entebee hijacking thingamabob, which I suspect might have caused some sections of public-opinion to lump him in with third-world socialists such as Arafat and, by extension, Castro etc. Overall, though, he...