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Are you talking specifically about the UK? My understanding is German immigrants spread it fairly wide in the US before the German royals brought it to Britain.

Random question: in any era, did New England ever consider asking for Bermuda? I'm thinking maybe more in the 19th century when fishing interests must have been pretty powerful, but honestly it could be any time. Maybe not in a totally serious way, but in a "let's run it up the flagpole and...

Malê Rising came pretty close. That's a pre-1900 POD, though. And I think it only lasted 1-2 generations.

My understanding is that the French wanted to give the Maronites the largest state possible they could control "as Arabs." So very much a plurality situation, held together by tension from multiple other groups, yes, but also by a common identity as Arabs. If the French take a meeting with the...

My understanding is that Christian Lebanese buy-in on Arabic identity was a crucial part of pan-Arabism in general. Removing this notable strain of diversity and creating another salient in pan-Arabic territory might mean the idea never even gets as far as it did IOTL. I think at the very...

It’s worth looking into. Local authorities also use other tools to just tell people they can’t do things, without resorting to the carrot/stick of the tax code. That’s really all zoning is, a simple decree. Here’s one such attempt to zone for ag...

Rather the “Levittowns” look more like European peri-urban areas, but I totally agree on the positive feedback loops. I do think you’d get Levittowns that look like Levittowns eventually. But: A) The tide of suburbanization would come in later and crest sooner B) Levittowns are actually fairly...

I’m afraid I don’t know the gentleman and would suggest you post any other theories about him (which give the appearance of bad faith) in another thread, as we’re off-topic and in danger of derailing this one. Unless that’s your intention?

I hear you, he's a real prize pig, but we don't have to apples/oranges this. Licenses are licenses. Did Wilson strip black citizens of any licenses? Businesses, permits, etc.? I looked a little, but couldn't find anything in a ten-minute search on whether or not they even had, for example...

My instinct says he caves if he's the leader of the GOP. But if he does give his support I think he can pull a coalition together. Especially if he won it in a less messy fashion than W (seems likely). Less partisan rancor, and the perfect issue to compromise on.

How long did it take him to screw African American Washingtonians out of other civic permits? I am ignorant of such cases, but that's probably where your answer lies, or close to it.

Could be! Before this thread I didn't realize, but apparently the Supreme Court has handled parking cases before. Though in DC's case, the African American community was largely in place more than a hundred years ago, predating the Great Migration. So a lot of permits would start out in...

Yeah, I just assumed the OP also covered street parking, that's my bad. In my head, turning city folks against cars is also going to turn them against street parking, which if nothing else is the cause of so many accidents and so much gridlock. Of course permit-based street parking has been...

Replacing surface parking with underground garages and buildings seems like the most likely thing in cities. It’s what has always tended to replace them, after all (or just the free-standing garages). But yeah, we might even see mandates in a few cities for underground parking minimums on all...

Just to take another stab at a POD, link it into all those weird health fads that led to all that craziness up in Battle Creek. “We have determined that large open concentrations of complex machinery have the most deleterious effects on all aspects of human physiognomy. Our breath and scent...

No it’s good! Constructive. This would definitely require some oblique thinking and coalition-building. Interests driven by traffic congestion and interests driven by public safety realize that if they follow the lead of locals angry about too many cars on their block, they can pass...

Maybe a move against congestion in general, with cars just being the straw that broke the camel’s back that gets the city council to take up the issue. A city trying to create some order in the increasing chaos and enshrining the primacy of...? Maybe something like: 1) the public...

I found a fairly angry...I think ?libertarian? rant citing the early history of auto regulation. It seems fairly extensive and dates back to at least the 1880s with grandfathered laws applying originally to bicycles. Reluctant to link because it’s a whole website of such rants and who knows...

You seem stuck on nationwide regulation. Have you read my first response to the OP? Or my response to you? We’ve moved on from a federal solution as requiring a very different set of levers from basic social pressure.

Yeah, that's the one I saw, too. Could wish it didn't look like I made it in Excel, but that seems like a reasonable ballpark, around 1916/17. So that's the timeframe. No weird tech needed, no ridiculous deviation from standard human behavior, totally doable.