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  1. If Rockefeller doesn’t get divorced and wins 1964 Republican nomination, then both R’s and D’s generally accept Civil Rights as a fait accompli? ?

    I think Nixon would still win the nomination in 1968 (and probably without having to make deals with new southern Republicans like Thurmond).

  2. Least Populous London?

    Not sure you can really stop either but if you put speed barriers on the Big Bang of 1986 and integration with the world economy you can slow the growth.

  3. AHC: Wank a city in the deep south other than Atlanta

    How about if you kept some capitals at the expense of other cities? If Houston was kept the capital of Texas, the metro area would likely be the size of Chicago. Charleston could easily be double the size it is now if Columbia wasn't designated the state capital, Knoxville could have taken much...

  4. Could a liberal republican have pulled off the New Deal?

    I think the key is, with an early 20th century POD, would it be impossible to dislodge the organized working-class from the Democratic Party and align them with the GOP? The ultimate reason this did not happen is what business coalitions did shake out within the Democrats and Republicans, as...

  5. When is the Earliest a possible time we could have a Black President?

    Pre-Obama, Douglas Wilder in the 90s seems like a very possible timeline.

  6. Plausibility of the Soviet Union going "Dengist" very early on?

    Per Sam R., I don't really know how you avoid constant "scissor crisis"-type issues cropping up (which they were doing so again at the eve of the Ural-Siberian method).

  7. AHC: President Huey Long

    I think he'd have to wrangle a VP slot in '32 (probably to a Democrat more conservative than FDR) and Zangara comes in -- shades of TR.

  8. What If John B. Anderson won the 1980 Republican Nomination?

    Maybe if he's picked as Ford's VP, and Squeaky Fromme comes in...

  9. What if voting African-Americans stayed 80-90% Republican from 1932-1946?

    I think the question is why they wouldn't switch to the Ds. Maybe a President Garner?

  10. AHC: Make 1972 a Close Race

    Chuck Colson "goes off the reservation" and firebombs the Brookings Institution. Sets a whole mess of stuff up.

  11. Rockefeller 1960 -- consequences?

    I am not sure who conservatives would back or if Goldwater would be guaranteed to run (he was reluctant to anyway a few years later). Maybe Dirksen? A plausible VP choice for Rockefeller when I think of it. Robert B. Anderson seems more like one of Ike's flights of fancy that would get tamped...

  12. Rockefeller 1960 -- consequences?

    Could LBJ retain his power remaining in the Senate? It's been floated before his power would have waned if he did not ascend to VP and the Presidency. Getting squeezed between the new crop of liberal Senators who distrusted him and segregationists + not having the power of the executive...

  13. Rockefeller 1960 -- consequences?

    Personally, I can imagine it mirroring the 1976 map a lot:

  14. Rockefeller 1960 -- consequences?

    I think this sounds right -- lot of ideological overlaps with JFK. Other good questions: how much does Rocky lose in the Upper South vis-a-vis Nixon? How much does he gain in the Midwest/Northeast?

  15. Rockefeller 1960 -- consequences?

    I feel like there's a diet-Great Society possible -- how would he handle Congress?
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