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Presidents of The US, by ETGalaxy
Here’s my idea for a list of American presidents from Woodrow Wilson to a few decades after the POD:

  • Woodrow Wilson (Democratic Party) 1913-1921
  • William Gibbs McAdoo (Democratic Party) 1921-1929
  • Alfred Smith (Democratic Party) 1929-1933
  • Charles Curtis (Republican Party) 1933-1936
  • Frank Orren Lowden (Republican Party) 1936-1937
  • Jacob Coxey (Democratic-Labor Party) 1937-1949
Alright, so just to explain things, my basic idea is to take what @InfernoMole and I discussed and make the Democrats a socially conservative but slightly populist party throughout the 1920s before the economy collapses in the United States around the same time as OTL. When the more progressive Al Smith is nominated in 1928, the Democratic Party splits in two, with conservatives forming the American Party while progressives and populists maintain control over the Democrats. After the market liberal Republicans do a mediocre job in the early 1930s, the Democrats and Farmer-Labor Party merge to form the social democratic and populist Democratic-Labor Party, with Jacob Coxey serving three terms (likely due to a WWII-esque conflict in the 1940s).

Hopefully this looks good, but I’m open to retcons.

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