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Having seen some clips, the show seems pretty interesting so far although for something set in 1962 a lot of the conversation and general atmosphere seems far too modern.

Basically like a World War 2-documentary with interviews and archival footage.

Its quite possible. For example Meg Whitman could have won in 2010 if Jerry Brown hadn't run and instead faced off against a more scandal-prone Villaraigosa. Same with New York. Getting a Senator is much more difficult IMO.

What sort of effort do you folks put into researching your TLs? Is it mostly basing it off of your current knowledge of history and using quick sources such as Wikipedia for the rest or do you engage in much more extensive reading of relevant literature as if you were working on a research...

One thing I found odd about TL-191 (from descriptions, I haven't read the books) was the development of American politics and especially the Democratic Party dominance. Simply put, especially with the South gone, you were going to have an outlet for a party that supported high tariffs and the...

The only way this has even a remote chance of happening is if the Third Reich survives one way or the other until the present day and evolves into a technocratic, vaguely authoritarian party along the lines of OTL's CCP. The CCP does present a possibility in that it'll probably be the wife of...

Pretty sure this belongs in Chat. But IMO the answer is absolutely yes. Any movement whose primary purpose is to preserve and perpetuate the institution of slavery deserves nothing less than utter and complete annihilation.

That's actually pretty prophetic since Turtledove wrote these books before the Syrian Civil War broke out.

Inspired by this: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=337904 While the "Home Timeline" of Crosstime Traffic is obviously our world in the 2090s, large-scale changes appear to have occurred in several areas that one can do a FH setting. Among other things off the top...

I've always wondered why there was never a Marshall Plan at the end of the Cold War instead of the neoliberal poison that made Yeltsin indirectly responsible for more deaths among Russians leaders since Stalin.

NAFTA happens as per OTL but welfare "reform" is unlikely without a Democrat pushing it-only Nixon could go to China and etc. There obviously is no landslide Republican victory in the 1994 midterms either which has interesting consequences for movement conservatism in the United States-does this...

Yes. Bush and his Cabinet were prone to making huge strategic mistakes but they weren't insane and it would obvious to them as anyone else that nuking Afghanistan won't do anything good. The only that might provoke a nuclear reaction would be an actual WMD attack on American soil not a...

This isn't completely impossible depending on the right factors-for example Obama expressed support for single-payer health care. Obama still would have run as a centrist but as a populist centrist like Brian Schweitzer rather a DLC/Beltway Consensus centrist-emphasizing the economic issues in...

Its available on Gutenberg for free. A pretty good read despite its didatic nature and the usual racism.

I voted at the establishment of the PRC because as vile as Mao's regime was, it did undertake a lot of the work of basic modernization that Deng built upon.

Well Caesar's Column comes pretty close and additionally is basically a spiritual prequel to Bioshock: Infinite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar%27s_Column

This is what happens in the world of Grasshopper Lies Heavy, the AH within an AH from Man in the High Castle. I think what you need is either or both 1) heavier US casualties in World War 2 (possibly D-Day is a failure or the Battle of the Bulge is more successful) requiring the use of more...

I can understand if he means just Japan, but I doubt most of Europe's economies were impacted in anyway by Korea.

McCain in 2000... 2000: John McCain/Elizabeth Dole-302 EVs 49.1% Al Gore/Joseph Lieberman-236 EVs 47.1% Ralph Nader-0 EVs 2.7% [/IMG] 2004: John McCain/Elizabeth Dole (Republican)-359 EVs 51.9% Howard Dean/John Edwards (Democratic)-179 EVs 47.7% [/IMG] 2008: Elizabeth...

Not necessarily-North Korea didn't become a complete shithole until the Soviet aid dried up after the Cold War. Before then it has a fairly industrialized economy and was richer than the South until the 1970s or so. If you have decent technocratic leadership, you could very well end up with a...