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Difficult to say. My guess as to why Detroit didn't devolve into open racial conflict in OTL is because whites simply left the city in droves rather than fight against integration of their neighborhoods (there was some white flight before the riots, but it accelerated afterwards and continued up...

July 26, 1968 Gun ownership, radical groups on the rise in Detroit Detroit’s comeback after Fermi is marred by a disturbing trend: white backlash. On the surface, Detroit appears to have become a model for good race relations. Slowly but surely, efforts to integrate the racially divided city...

My guess is more or less the same as what he was doing in OTL. At the time (July 1968), he was 26 and had just moved to Vermont, working odd jobs. Perhaps that changes, but I don't think so. However, given his OTL opposition to atomic power, he's probably involved in some anti-atomic activism.

July 18, 1968 Humphrey meets with anti-nuclear activists Yesterday, the first-ever Environment Day [1] was held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, only 33 miles from the site of the Fermi meltdown. Since the Fermi meltdown, the environment has become an important issue to many voters...

June 26, 1968 Liberals gain majority of Canadian Parliament Yesterday’s federal election saw a big win for Walter Gordon and the Liberal Party. The Liberal party gained a majority of Parliament, adding 26 seats, increasing its total number of seats to 154. The Progressive Conservatives under...

June 6, 1968 Humphrey leads the Democratic delegate count In the race for the Democratic nomination, Vice President Hubert Humphrey leads the pack in the delegate count despite never entering a primary. Since his entry into the race on April 27, Humphrey has picked up considerable support...

May 10, 1968 Viet peace talks begin in Paris Representatives from both the United States and North Vietnam arrived in Paris today to start peace talks that could end the war in Vietnam. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman and presidential adviser Cyrus Vance met with their North Vietnamese...

April 28, 1968 Humphrey announces run for President In front of a cheering crowd of 1,700 people, Vice President Hubert Humphrey put an end to weeks of speculation by formally announcing that he is running for President. After President Johnson announced his withdrawal from the 1968 election...

April 23, 1968 Testimony reveals possible cause of Fermi meltdown Eighteen months after the meltdown at the Fermi atomic plant near Detroit, Michigan, a possible cause for the disaster may have been found. Testimony before the joint Atomic Energy committee placed the blame for the accident on...

April 7, 1968 Gordon chosen as Liberal Party leader Walter Gordon, the self-styled Canadian nationalist, has been chosen as leader of the Liberal Party to replace outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson. After a tumultuous convention, he received the support of a majority of delegates...

I'm open minded to your idea (and I have done just that in other TLs), but I'm not sure how would handle the threadmarks, which have been by date. But if others agree, I can start doing it that way.

April 5, 1968 Martin Luther King killed in Memphis Tragedy struck last night in Memphis, Tennessee. Martin Luther King, Jr., the reverend and civil rights leader, was gunned down by an unknown assailant at his motel room. He was rushed to the hospital, but did not survive. Police are still...

April 1, 1968 Johnson announces he will not seek re-election At the end of a speech on Vietnam yesterday, President Lyndon Johnson unexpectedly announced that he would not run for re-election this year. Johnson stated that he would “not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party...

Also, the abundance of Spanish and Native place names. Perhaps in this TL the Native Holumbians fare better and manage to hold onto some territory, at least in rural areas (note the provinces tend to have Native names, while the city names usually have English or French or Spanish origins)...

I'm not convinced - why is there only one district in the entire country? I stand by my earlier post. Washington, Divus Caesar sounds like an honorific title for the aforementioned corporal Washington. I imagine he somehow pulls off a coup and becomes venerated as a semi-divine emperor. Also...

What are United States? That's kind of an oxymoron (states are sovereign entities and are by nature divided), so it doesn't seem likely to me. I think it's more likely to stand for Union of the Southern Alliance (that is, the provinces allied with Washington as opposed to the northern provinces...

February 26, 1968 New Map Shows Radioactive Fallout from Fermi Accident A recent study shows that contamination from the Fermi accident may be more severe and widespread than originally thought. Soil samples were taken across more than 100 locations in the United States and Canada. Scientists...

February 8, 1968 George Wallace announces third-party bid for Presidency Former Alabama Governor George Wallace has formally declared that he will run as a third-party candidate in the 1968 Presidential race. This news comes less than a week after former Vice President Richard Nixon tossed his...

October 29, 1967 Michigan considers controversial abortion bill This week, the Michigan State Senate will vote on a bill that would decriminalize abortion in Michigan. The proposed bill would overturn a 1931 law that made abortion illegal in the state. The sponsor of the bill, State Senator...

October 5, 1967 One year anniversary of the Fermi disaster A year ago, few people had ever heard of the Fermi atomic power plant, near Detroit, Michigan. Today, one year after history’s worst nuclear accident, the name has become synonymous with death, radiation sickness, the fear of cancer...