I wrote that very weirdly, thank you for pointing that out. Yes, if the Baltic states weren't illegally occupied, then the soviet union would not have collapsed, or at least not have collapsed due to that, at the very least.
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I wrote that very weirdly, thank you for pointing that out. Yes, if the Baltic states weren't illegally occupied, then the soviet union would not have collapsed, or at least not have collapsed due to that, at the very least.
English Mexico? Dear God, the culture, the food mix of bland / bleh and spicy sexiness .... must have.
Haggis Tacos!?
I'm not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but Wendell Willkie surviving and going onto lead the Liberal Party on a national stage. He might've run for NYC Mayor as a Liberal in 1945, putting him in a good position to run a third party campaign in 1948. IMO, this would force Dewey to run the forceful, inspiring campaign he should've (in order to win his home state and energize his Republican base to pull votes from Willkie) as well as resulting in Willkie splitting votes with Truman - allowing Dewey to win the presidency.
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Well, Wallace would probably get even less votes. The few disaffected New Dealers and liberals who voted for him would instead support Willkie. So Wallace's vote would be less than 1% and most analysts would give him only cursory mention afterwards.
but would they? Wallace was vying for democratic progressives, Willkie would mostly draw support from new england liberals and possibly western more republican progressives
Mexico is comparatively much smaller and a much smaller population, and therefore easier to Anglicize as much as it was to Hispanicize. It'd be a spicy Canada.
Wasn't it a lot more developed and densely populated than pre-contact Canada or the Eastern US though? I do wonder in light of that and the natural resources if it would be run geared more towards extraction, rather than settlement like Canada or the 13 Colonies. I don't really know enough to say though, it's certainly an interesting idea.
In 2018, I don't think that people would've returned to analog tech even if it was discovered that some really bad things were being done with their data. However, if the possibility of data misuse was in the public spotlight earlier, I can definitely imagine stricter privacy laws being passed.
Also, people on this forum really seem to like pro wrestling alternate history, so what about Dwayne Johnson getting drafted into the NFL? That would certainly be interesting. I assume this must've been done before.
I'm doing an internet-focused timeline right now, and to me what makes it hard to do a non-pop culture focused TL is that many of the impacts that the Internet would have on the "real world" are hard to determine. Business history is probably the easiest to do, as Internet companies have a big effect on the market.
I'm doing an internet-focused timeline right now, and to me what makes it hard to do a non-pop culture focused TL is that many of the impacts that the Internet would have on the "real world" are hard to determine. Business history is probably the easiest to do, as Internet companies have a big effect on the market.
Not sure Johnson had NFL talent. He was cut by the Calgary Stampeders after two months on their practice squad in 1995. If he's not good enough for the CFL, I can't see too many NFL teams being interested in him.
Here's an interesting idea: Henry Wallace succeeds FDR in 1945, only to do most of what Truman did in OTL. He manages to get the Marshall Plan and the "Wallace Doctrine" passed to contain Communism, but his domestic programs are shot down by a hostile Congress. Wallace's political ineptitude leads to Dewey being elected in a landslide win as expected.
There's Book of the Holy Mountain, Lands of Ice and Mice, and Lands of Red and Gold-the first being very good and the last one fo the great AH classics of this site.