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There's no limit to how cool I think B_Monro's cold war is.

Went with Sailor's Cabbage, because it was the most interesting idea. Crops of Balkanized North America was a very close second for me.

I don't know as much about Indian history as most of the others on here, but when you think about it, it is really amazing that India is able to endure as a single country, because it is one of the most diverse countries in the world. India has many different ethnicities, large Christian and...

Although, there's no reason that the US and Commonwealth countries couldn't have created an standard definitions for their units. That would correct one of the two big complaints about the Imperial system. Would it satisfy the original post if there's a more decimalized form of the Imperial...

Another possibility is to create another competing international measurement system. If there is both a Metric System and a Sistemo Universala, maybe neither one would be big enough to reach a tipping point, and the Imperial system can stay strong.

Not true. There are a lot of Ojibwe reservations there now. See for example the map on this page http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/mn/mnrezmap.html I remember from my old Minnesota History classes that the Ojibwe generally moved westward in the last couple centuries. This site tells a similar...

Well, the "Toledo war gone hot" suggestion" is probably the most exciting backstory. Or a different 1812. I've thought about a Canadian province that stretches west from Sault Ste Marie or so, without any of Michigan, but maybe following Lake Superior to OTL Duluth, MN. Originally the name I...

Is this from the Against All Odds or something new? (I haven't read Against All Odds or your ISOT based on it.) Can you explain a bit about the borders of Superior? I see that it has OTL Michigan's upper peninsula. Does it stretch as far east as Sudbury? In the far west, does its border match...

Touché. I almost responded by saying "You know I mean Europe". But of course, Europe wasn't all that democratic in the 20th century. So, I will weaken my statement to saying that many people will particularly resent Papal authoritarianism, taking from the same tradition as Garibaldi. If...

If the Papal States survive to 2012, I see them becoming a UK-style monarchy where the Pope doesn't actually have power. I think that representative government is such an ingrained part of the modern zeitgeist that there's no way that the Papal States can have any respect if they keep the Pope...

I disagree with the people who say Clinton definitely would have won. Remember, when Gore was running, he had to make some efforts to distance himself from Clinton's scandals. I would expect that others in the Democratic Party would have pressured Clinton against running in 2000.

Sounds like a timeline