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Okay, I'm inclined to think that there are four general paths which post-ACW history could have taken (as I've mentioned before): South wins; short-term emnity South wins; long-term emnity North wins; short-term emnity(OTL) North wins; long-term emnity Everyone seems to think that North...

Or you could just have the Feds take away the state militias weapons after they surrender, so that there wouldn't be any violence at all.

Definitely agree with you there. Clark was the candidate whom I feared the most (granted, if he were elected, he probably would have done a better job than any of the others), considering he was a moderate Southerner (and what were all the Democrats who have won the presidency in the last 40...

This is absolutely implausible. The French were the 1st country to end slavery (1st Republic, if I recall). They would never help another country set up a slave trade. It is possible that the French could have aided the CSA -- just because they wanted to violate the Monroe Doctrine and keep...

The reason that reconstruction ended was because of the hotly contested election of 1876, which the Democrat, Tilden, most likely actually won. Several Southern states turned in 2 sets of electors. Some for the Republican, Hayes, and some for Tilden. Guess which ones were the authentics...

Could you be clearer on "better"? Better for whom, for the freed slaves, the white Southerners, the federal occupiers? It would kind of be contradictory for it to have been better for everybody . . . .

I just had a short blurb of an idea for this (I think it kind of fits): POD: George Washington dies of polio as a child (he was afflicted w/ that, right? I heard he had some disease that probably sterliized him, so those people who say that they were descended from Washington and one of his...

Just wondering: does anyone think that the Richmond-London-Paris-Tokyo Axis might win this one? I think I saw a review on Amazon.com in which someone said they thought that HT might make this a WI the Nazis won as well. Personally I'd like to see something like the Fox on the Rhine, that...

It was Andrew Johnson. Pretty sure Jackson was dead by then. Easy mistake to make; two Tennesseean Dems named Andrew.

Yeah; that's why the Yanks keep voting for liberals. We Rebs know better. :cool:

Honestly I don't remember the guy on Sheol. It's been almost 5 years since I read it. I do remember that Carl was just some relatively obscure character who was an electrical technician and went to Pluto and got killed. Also, while I don't remember any outright mention of an all-female pilot...

Yeah, I remember that one. There was some secret gov't experiment gone awry -- trying to make some kind of electric tornadoes as a weapon or something like that, and everyone lived like Amish (no technology, because it would pull the tornadoes over some special kinds of rocks -- lithium?) and...

Yeah; the book was great; if you've only seen the movie take the 1st 5 minutes in the classroom w/ Michael Ironsides where they're talking about the failing of democracy, and make that ~65% of the content + ~20% on military structure. The rest is what was in the movie (except that -- as others...

I haven't read these (though I have both) yet I suspect that the South will probably lose this one, based upon an essay I read by Forstcen in Alternate Gettysburgs. In it, he said that he didn't think the South could have won the war even if Lee had won Gettysburg, that the manpower of the USA...

I was under the impression from your previous post that you thought New Orleans was under US occupation -- and thus that you hadn't read the book and were confusing it w/ the ACW of OTL. But your question about nuking New Orleans seemed as though you thought the city was already under occupation...

I thought Sliders was generally decent -- at least before the Sci Fi Channel got a-hold of it and -- as they do with most good things they get -- f***ed it up beyond all recognition. They down-turn probably started w/ the death of Professor Maxamillian. They always kill off my favorite character...

I know that this isn't exactly what you were asking about, but if you're into boardgames, too, Eagle Games' The American Civil War (eaglegames.net) is awesome. It incorporates both tactics and strategy (as opposed to tactics exclusively as Avalon Hill's Battle Cry does -- I've heard it's great...

How come they don't have -- or at least I never saw -- any of the same alien races in Star Trek and SG-1. I'm not an avid fan of either, but I've watched a few episodes of both, and I think I would recognize a Klingon or a Vulcan in SG-1 or a whatever species Teal'k is in Star Trek if I saw one...

Well, if New Orleans were in US hands they wouldn't nuke it. The US -- at this point at least -- is losing WWII to the CSA, badly. The president has just been killed, and virtually all of Ohio is under occupation. The US will be far more concerned w/ getting Ohio back before they go and try to...