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Ish. While I don't think a Boston Southie would deny being a Yankee, you'll rarely here anyone in the Bay area self-identify as such. I think Yankee is, primarily, an old-stock Upper New England self-identifier. Now, we Southerners identify everyone North of the Mason-Dixon as Yankees, and...

I don't know if this qualifies, but if either Spain or Portugal retained most of their OTL empires, they would eventually be dominated by colonials and not Europeans, by simple demographics. This actually happened in Portugal during and after the Napoleonic wars, with the imperial center of...

Cuba was a red line for the Soviets, and the US knew it. Between the Missle Crisis and the Fall of the Berlin Wall, this isn't happening short of WWIII.

The signs and portents of his coming include the companionship of a massive blue ox.

This is brilliant! Would you be willing to do a map?

I've just caught back up as well. Not being an Eastern Front expert, how does the Axis advance into the USSR compare to OTL? I get the impression that they are marginally closer to Moscow, about OTL opposite Stalingrad, and deeper into the Caucasus (Grozny? wow!) but I might be wrong. Also...

Hmm... when did the UK and Prussia beat France? Is the occupation of Northern France indefinite?

Also New Berne.

Care to elaborate? If Haiti and El Salvador could survive as independent small states, why not SC or MS?

Baltimore in the 19th Century was considered the South's largest city; Baltimore during the Civil War was a hotbed of Confederate sympathy. Even in the 1930's, the Baltimore Sun still billed itself "the largest newspaper in the South." Baltimore's H.L. Mencken has a surprisingly Southern accent...

Assuredly not! OTOH, the Brits especially were always rather sympathetic to the victims of Tsarist persecution, at least in the abstract. If the Ukrainian people rise, it just wouldn't seem fair to deny them their hard earned freedom, and this sovereignty would require a great power protector...

Well, there's always the Alands. But I think Sweden would mainly enter to ensure Finnish independence and Swedish influence in Finland, possibly even a personal union.

What's the third type?

Fair enough; on the other hand, this Russia's domestic conditions BEGIN at early 1917 levels, and Russia has no major allies. That could mean a short, victorious war; or it could mean the dismemberment of the Russian empire.

What makes you think the Ukraine and Transcaucasia are going to remain out of the German and Ottoman orbit ITTL? Also, there's the whole Geloybte Aretz - the natural place for it is eastern Poland and western Belarus (Bialystok, Pinsk, Chelm, etc.) Does anyone have a good demographic map of...

So a situation is building up where the France and Russia, both of whose governments are of dubious legitimacy, launch an offensive war against the most powerful alliance on earth, on questionable grounds. They are utterly overmatched at sea and are not self-sufficient economies. All of this in...