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Let's take this at face value and try to come up with something plausible with formal, legalized discrimination against short people. A quick google suggests the average tallest ethnicity are the Dutch and the shortest are Indonesian. So there's an idea right there. More extensive Dutch (maybe...

No vote, most benevolent is really bad framing. "Least harmful" might be a worthwhile discussion, though whoever wins that would primarily do so by a lack of capability rather than a lack of cruelty.

Canada, northern Mexico, Cuba, DR, maybe a few more Caribbean islands and Pacific islands. I'm extremely skeptical the US would take large, populous non-white territories like the remainder of Mexico or the Philippines. During the time period when such annexations were possible, white supremacy...

I'm not sure if this is possible within the Continental US but I think a more expansionist US that finds itself with a larger proportion of non-White territories under it's control might have some incentive to do something like this. If the US ends up with additional land in Africa through an...

Where women have political and economic agency, fertility rates fall significantly. You need to slow down Europe's social development to pre-1960s levels and especially avoid what was seen in the post-Soviet collapse (women with political and economic agency but a lack of cultural change...

'88 is probably impossible, but maybe if Jackson moderates his platform a bit (drops reparations) and gets out in front in '92 early enough to steal some energy from Clinton he can stand a chance.

Arguing that the US government did not believe in property redistribution immediately after it engaged in the largest de-commodification of property (in persons, specifically) in history until 1917 seems logically inconsistent. Especially when that same government was simultaneously engaging in...

I thought he only specifically required his soldiers to marry indigenous women, rather than a society-wide mandate. Regardless, it seems this was created by a few forces that might be replicable elsewhere: 1. Lack of a coherent national identity combined with a need to build one quickly to...

In the interest of getting this thread (which I suppose I titled inflammatorily, lol) off the topic of modern political chat and back towards the subject I want to dig into this a little more. What specific social, historical, or even individual personality forces would best disrupt the US from...

The geography of Europe dooms it to unification into one, maybe two major geopolitical powers. Consider the North European Plain which stretches effectively from the Pyrenees to the Urals, combined with the water connection of the Atlantic Ocean and the West and East Germanic Seas. This...

Presuming that Nixon takes action on civil rights, as I think it's safe to say he will, I'm not sure how Humphrey ends up as the Democratic nominee. It would take the Republicans biggest political weakness in 1964 and negate it entirely. More likely it's a contest between: Wallace representing...

What and where do you think is most plausible? Great Britain could maybe support Tecumseh’s Confederacy for a while though I suspect it would still get overwhelmed with white settlers eventually. The Lakota were the last resistance to the US OTL, maybe if the US is completely gone they can have...

By 1877 the Southern ruling elites were basically in charge of the South again. Reconstruction was all but over and the slavery system was replaced with sharecropping and Jim Crow. In order to have a second rebellion you'd need for the Southern ruling class to meaningfully lose the Civil War...

Sorry, I should have specified I was trying to get this done prior to 1812 if possible. But a stronger British push against the US is probably the most plausible way for the early US to break up. Most of the state cessions were done prior to the Constitution even being adopted though. I think...

How, after the 1783 Treaty of Paris, can the US be broken up into most of its constituent states as disastrously as possible? Some of them can form federations but more independent nations in the early US is preferable to fewer. Commonly, this seems to be sort of handwaved with "keep the...

I don't have much to say except this should be fascinating.

Domestically, Huey would have been very similar or even preferable on economic issues to FDR and no different on racial ones. However his stringent isolationism might have been problematic in the long-term. Huey may not maintain the embargo on oil exports that forced Japan into the strategic...

Why would both Obama and Hillary be running if Kerry is the incumbent President? I could maybe see a primary from the left from the likes of Sanders or Kucinich but I neither Hillary nor Obama strike me as courageous (read: stupid) enough to do so.

As Analytical Engine mentioned, the Plains Indians were pushed west by the Ojibwe and Cree armed with French guns. It was a pretty unique situation all told - highly virulent disease rendered settled life less attractive, the collapse of existing continental trade networks, and the sudden...

Being a hunter-gatherer is generally preferable to being a subsistence farmer. Being a warrior, priest, noble, or modern first world anything is preferable to being a hunter-gatherer.