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Re: No alt-Texas. True enough. Texas was at least partially a project (from the American POV) to grab land for Southern plantation agriculture, and that situation was pretty unique to the time and place. And about post-Tecumseh, I think that would (or should) be the meat of any timeline...

These are my two concerns about the longevity of Tecumseh's Confederacy. Depending on the level of British interest, it may be incorporated into British Canada. On the subject of white immigration, I think Texas maybe be a good example of what could happen if London loses interest in the Native...

I would think that the Caliphate would at least extend itself to all of Asia Minor and as far as they could reach into the Balkans, which IMO wouldn't be very far, given that the Bulgars would most certainly swoop in on an ERE that had been effectively beheaded. Probably some ERE remnants in...

This is one of this things that interests me as well. Since I'm assuming in any POD that results in a North Sea Empire would also butterfly the ramifications of the Norman Invasion, Anglo-Norse would retain its Germanic roots and even have them reinforced, instead of becoming a weird...

I doubt it. Politics of racial identity were much different in the past and I don't think having a mixed-race presidential nominee would sway the Black electorate after four years of FDR's New Deal.

I believe that actively supporting and progressing Civil Rights would go a long way, probably making Black Americans a "swing" demographic that both parties want to court. Economics is more difficult to say and would probably depend on what center-right would be. I think a New Deal accepting...

Not really so simple. 1932 was the last time a Republican won a majority of the Black vote. The New Deal was the start of the transition of Black Americans from voting R to voting D, something that was spurred on by later Democratic efforts on Civil Rights. I think to avert this trend, no...

If a heresy got so widespread that it not only converted enough of the nobility and clergy to effectively replace the Catholic Church in any part of Medieval Christendom, let alone conquering Iberia, I think you'd be looking at something similar to the Reformation or Great Schism, depending on...

Istanbul is still Turkish, I wonder if that's enough for Bulgaria to join the Alt-Axis. Then again, they are in basically the opposite position that OTL Bulgaria was in so they may not. Also, I like that South America is gonna be a front in Alt-WW II. Does Brazil have a significant navy? It'd...

I think this is important to remember too. The Mississippi + Missouri river is already massive and stretches over a lot of the US, but if we include the whole watershed I don't think an area a that large would be unified even if it shared a common culture.

To my knowledge, deer are a bit too flighty to be viable domestication candidates. The Eastern Woodlands cultures did sort of manage them though, through the Agro-forestry that supplemented agriculture.

There is a lot of yikes in this post, so I'm gonna break this down. [Citation needed] What is "welfare and good standards of living?" Up until the period immediately prior to Industrial Revolution the vast majority of people were rural farmers who very much did not have good diets, let alone a...

Human civilization didn't and doesn't follow a "tech tree" of progress where Eurasian civilization is the ideal. Just because metalworking wasn't as developed as in Eurasia doesn't mean Native Americans were inherently less developed. Mesoamerican cultures built vast pyramid cities with...

The Imperial Germans literally tried to genocide the natives of Nambia. That's a bit more than "an occasional atrocity that was standard for any colonial atrocity. " Also, trivializing colonial atrocities as something that just happens isn't a good look. Colonialism is inherently unjust and to...

I was wondering how A-H (or I guess A-H-C now) was doing. I'm interested in how long the unofficial caste system and the balance of power within the Empire will last. Doesn't seem a system that will last very long to me.

Nice flags. I saw this get brought up earlier, Georgia having trouble with the Native nation within it's claimed borders, and I have to agree. Georgia at the time was very much centered on the Savannah River and while it claimed to the Mississippi, the state couldn't really exercise power too...

I agree that SC is probably going to join someone, mostly because its hemmed in by other states and it's population (which, mind you, is by a slim majority enslaved) really has no where to go once the intensive cash crop farming of the OTL antebellum years starts exhausting the soil. I don't...

If you want a more recent POD (i.e. 1800s-early 1900s), for Central America and the Caribbean, I'd suggest somehow stopping the Banana Wars from happening. Having your country dominated by one company that: a) Owns most of your main export and the land it's grown on, the surplus of which could...

I've thought about this question as well, and there were other colonizers than the big five, the Swedes and Dutch as you have mentioned colonized mainland America, but the funny thing is that the Dutch actually conquered New Sweden and added it to the New Netherlands, which in turn were annexed...

Here's a good Reddit post on the subject. TL;DR for the relevant stuff to the thread: South Vietnam was an American invention to have an anti-Communist regime in decolonized Indochina, and poured a lot of resources into the creation of the state, even before putting troops on the ground. Most...