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So we have the United States, plus three small nations to its south that were a part of the original colonies but have since departed... much like Central America and Mexico. The question of the hour is does the United States still go after New Orleans or does it go for the northern Louisiana...

Would a way for states to abide by Milliken be to ban municipalities from using property tax to fund education and instead do it through a state income tax, with the money being divvied up based on enrollment per district?

So what happens if the middle-class whites don't have a planter class to glom onto?

Donald Trump would probably move on to Iceland or Baffin Island

With a post-Watergate POD, your mission is not to prevent the GOP's Southern Strategy, but to get most commentators and GOP establishment officials to consider it a failure, not to be repeated after Nixon makes use of it.

I guess that means marriage isn't real because romcoms exist. Because, after all, nothing that appears in fiction exists in real life.

..... Can't the exact same thing be said for the electoral college? A handful of counties in a single vital swing state vs an entire state going hogwild - I think if there are more votes for a certain candidate coming out of Arkansas than there are registered voters, people would notice.

] Nobody said you did. Nevertheless a majority is easier to rig in the electoral college, because it's easier to fiddle with a handful of voting machines in a single suburban county which could plausibly have swung your way than it is to needle with thousands of voting machines across the country.

I mean, were they wrong? Simple question: what's easier to catch? thousands of hacked voting machines all across the country, or a handful in a single corner of a vital swing state like Ohio or Florida? You can dismiss my argument with snark, or you can actually contribute by trying to rebut it.

Sigh. This again. Voter fraud under the electoral college is *easier* because you only need to swing a handful of states, as opposed to perpetrating a massive and easily-to-catch fraud across the entire country. For example, on the ABC show *Scandal,* where hacked voting machines in a single...

Anyone?

Quite frankly none of the allied powers cared about Japanese civilian casualties. Hell, if the Morgenthau plan had been implemented (the main opposition to this being the risk of a soviet-aligned and industrialized East Germany) millions of Germans would have starved. They were less civilized times.

Let's say that after the Civil War started the Confederacy is quicker to occupy western Virginia - maybe the run-up to the war is longer and more drawn-out, with raids by the Virginia and Maryland militias into Pennsylvania to capture anyone they suspect of being an escaped slave (basically...

How much leeway do states in Australia have over how the seats they are given are apportioned? Perhaps they could reserve a percentage of their seats for the Maori, or, failing that, reserve maybe two of their senate seats.

When is the earliest point at which the United States could desegregate its military? Is it plausible to do so in a scenario where the US gets involved in World War I early, leading to higher casualty rates, perhaps under a President less over-the-top racist than Woodrow Wilson? Perhaps a health...

So I'm assuming the Commonwealth is gonna end up doing round 2 in 2003?

Basic POD: as-per Thomas Jefferson's preference, electors are allotted proportionately by the states. The result is in 1860 a five-way election with different candidates. Both the Whig and the Democratic Party fall apart and split into multiple parties, leading to a 5-way clusterfuck of an...

Russia is thousands of miles away. the KoA is right there. If they flood the region with settlers there isn't much Russia can do for a peripheral territory.

Personally I would like to see what Wisconsin progressives could do with Chicago

I'm on the opposite side: I'm confused as to why they're dropping the term "King of Britain." It's not as if anyone else is using it.