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I'm imagining the South adopting a sharecropper/hacienda system similar to Mexico. I'm also imagining that Mexican senators would block any attempt at labor laws or progressive reforms. Now I'm imagining a triumvirate of Eugene V Debs, W.E.B DuBois, and Alvaro Obregon leading a revolution that...

If the majority of a legislature is aiding and abetting treason and the non-treasonous members vote to split off a section of their state, the rest of the state that is in rebellion is kinda just shit outta luck

Reflection of the facts on the ground. The US had more to gain by recognizing the PRC than by recognizing Taiwan. The SC was made up of four great powers with global power projection... and Taiwan.

I would laugh so hard if there was a royal residence set up at some point in the future in the western part of Virginia... a place called Greenbrier Palace

Little is known about the man reported to be at the center of the events of the Chicago Incident (2019). The confrontation between poorly-understood supernatural powers that killed thousands and injured tens of thousands more is still seared in the national consciousness, along with the...

Perhaps the UK finds somewhere other than Australia to use as a penal colony (maybe they capture Rio de la Plata during the Napoleonic Wars) and so when the colonize Australia its under a plantation-style system with Indian laborers?

Just like it says on the tin. Lets say that someone other than the usual suspects pulls a sealion- perhaps a fascist France that gets monumentally lucky and manages to score some hits against the Royal Navy. How likely is it that the Commonwealth and whoever Britain is allied with could mount an...

I think Pied Piper, aka Hartley Rathaway, was the first openly gay comic character (personally I love Andy Mientus' portrayal of him on the Flash)

There's a stereotype - I don't know how true it is - that the main form of funding for the IRA and various other Irish Republican groups came from Irish pubs in Boston. It's certainly true that figures such as Congressman Pete King stayed with people connected to the IRA when he stayed in...

Reverse of OTL. A continent-wide revolution and conflagration is begun by Austria, while France's ambassador is the one trying to put things back the way they used to be, a-la Metternich

Thoughts?

Just like it says on the tin. lets assume that the weather was clearer when the fleet under the command of Admiral Walker sail into the St. Lawrence, allowing them to sail to Quebec while the colonists and a handful of regulars under the command of Francis Nicholson continue through the St...

I sincerely doubt that the President's own party would turn on him for trying to regulate college sports.

If the war turns against slavery more rapidly, any chance of some kind of an International Brigade?

That brings up a question: how was it usually decided where the members of continent-spanning families like the Vasas, Hapsburgs, and Jagiellons are raised?

Let's assume the same POD as my previous post about the Trastamaras retaining Spain. Infante Juan, Prince of Asturias, survives to adulthood and has children of his own, Charles V never inherits his massive empire, Spain keeps the New World gold and silver and uses it to fund a conquest of North...

Suppose Infante Juan, Prince of Asturias survived to have children of his own, meaning the Hapsburgs never take Spain. How does this effect the rest of Europe?

Perhaps early pogroms in Eastern Europe, combined with no Chinese exclusion act? The end result being that the country is about 5% Jewish and 5% Buddhist or traditional Chinese religion.

I think the issue is whether or not the "British Empire" as a polity could survive or whether the bones of the Imperial economy could. If you imagine a world where France fights on, taking Libya and preempting the North Africa campaign, and with the French treasury the burden of war debt isn't...