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The United States didn't become a legitimate liberal democracy until 1965 and the passage of the Voting Rights Act. But that doesn't exactly justify an act that is more illiberal like an aristocratic population with a monopoly on power in a region deciding to withdraw from the accountable...

The legal argument for slavery falls apart on its face when you consider how the South wasn't a functioning democracy at the time. There is no legitimate argument on the part of the South to popular support for secession when in many states the majority of the population is in bondage. This...

It should be noted that those other cases weren't considered legitimate at the time. The demands of the Hartford Convention were ignored and the Federalists collapsed as a political force. Jackson took the carrot and stick approach to the Nullification Crisis, with congress negotiating a new...

Greater Virginia - The Civil War Greater Virginia - Reconstruction Greater Virginia - The Gilded Age Greater Virginia - The Progressive Era Greater Virginia - The Roaring Twenties Greater Virginia - The Great Depression Greater Virginia - World War II and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Era...

Greater Virginia - The Civil War Greater Virginia - Reconstruction Greater Virginia - The Gilded Age Greater Virginia - The Progressive Era Greater Virginia - The Roaring Twenties Greater Virginia - The Great Depression With the advent of the Great Depression there would be a tremendous shift...

Greater Virginia - The Civil War Greater Virginia - Reconstruction Greater Virginia - The Gilded Age Greater Virginia - The Progressive Era Greater Virginia - The Roaring Twenties The roaring twenties would be a time of transition for Virginia. In the landslide Republican victory of 1920...

Greater Virginia Preview - Senator Harry Byrd Greater Virginia - The Civil War Greater Virginia - Reconstruction Greater Virginia - The Gilded Age Greater Virginia - The Progressive Era Despite the stranglehold on state government by the Conservative Democrats, there were actually deep...

Greater Virginia Preview - Senator Harry Byrd Greater Virginia - The Civil War Greater Virginia - Reconstruction Greater Virginia - The Gilded Age After much protest and threats of renewed hostilities, Rutherford Hayes was confirmed as having won the 1876 election 185-182. His administration...

Greater Virginia Preview - Senator Harry Byrd Greater Virginia - The Civil War Greater Virginia - Reconstruction The federal government was leery of welcoming Senators and Representatives from Virginia, for fear of setting a precedent that other Southern states may seek to follow for their...

Greater Virginia Preview - Senator Harry Byrd Greater Virginia - The Civil War In June 1861 unionists Virginians, largely from the more mountainous western part of the state, met in Wheeling to declare that under the Virginia Declaration of Rights the secession convention, convened by the...

I've been working on a "Greater Virginia" (Both Virginias Combined) office list. Here's the career of Harry Byrd Sr.

The only scenario I can see where Johnson is the nominee would be one where the Vietnam War is going just well enough for Johnson to in turn be re-elected. Say the US and South Vietnam forces get an even earlier tip off of the Tet Offensive and it's just absolutely obliterated then Johnson...

It would be rather too late as by that point Hillary Clinton would have already served a single term as First Lady of Arkansas, where she was often a political headache for being too liberal and feminist and outspoken while married to such an otherwise moderate and reasonable Governor.

President Roosevelt's escalating saber rattling at Germany results in the United States entering the war by 1916. I suspect Roosevelt gets re-elected, only for a Democratic tide to turn after 1918.

Out of curiosity, I took my spreadsheet of the 1980 election (I have one for every election) and tweaked it to give Reagan a boost in the Mid-Atlantic and then set the popular vote to the IOTL 1976. This was the result: Of course, if you go with the belief that the Gubernatorial election in...

Fair. Though I think me giving Mississippi to Reagan was an erroneous choice, as he really didn't do much better than Ford did relative to the national popular vote. So even if Illinois goes the other way here, Carter wins on the strength of the (almost) solid South.

Reagan was a little uncooked and undisciplined in 1976, so if he got the nomination I could see the election being not at all dissimiliar to OTL. I mean, Ford already won California, so that's left unchanged. Ford was from the Midwest and seems to have done better there, relative to the...

Good point, a skit from Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.

I suppose if one wanted to, one could argue those are from a Russell appearance on SNL or something.