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So I stumbled about the u19 world basketball championships. The U.S. is playing Greece at I believe the Heraklion Indoor Sports Arena in Crete. Anyways, there's multiple flags in the stands (besides the national Greece flag) of a flag that looks like the Confederate battle flag, only there's a...

Hagelin likely wins it be default. Party still dies.

I'm fairly sure in one of Asmiov's Foundation books it's said that it's just that humans were first, and spread to cover the galaxy, thus preempting any intelligence species that might have arisen. Though the main character makes a humanity shaping decision in the 4th and 5th books that is...

There has to be a reason why election results would change that greatly. Reason(s) which could produce very different results depending on what they are.

Not really, the Natives were the main target for many of the U.S. hawks.

Maybe not if the war in Europe is going worse for Britain as well.

The French Revolution still happening doesn't necessarily mean that Napoleon comes to power or France gets Louisiana. They will be butterflies. Most directly, some of the revolutionaries were admirers of the U.S. in its revolution - how will they U.S. breaking apart change that? Britain is...

Well we still use base 60 for minutes, and when people have to look at the clock and compare their time to the computer's which does it in decimal most of my fellow employees can't handle it (for instance if the computer says 39.9 hours that means you have 6 minutes left to get to 40 hours)...

To me this still maintains much of the problems with the EC, but takes away what is its one benefit: that if there's a close election you only have to recount one state instead of the whole country. Although thinking about, the popular vote winner should generally win, even more than now. It...

Drinking beer vs. drinking wine.

But you can't really, because different whys for how it happens could produce greatly varying results.

Ok, you meant it was a victory for Mexico/Residents of current New Mexico. I thought you meant from the Texas viewpoint.

Citation needed.

Many Cherokee did, didn't help. And of course unless the get germ theory and vaccinations still going to have a huge disadvantage.

More territory than they actually controlled plus a large part of the U.S. army to protect against Natives.

Soccer isn't my thing, but you might get comments if you post that here.

Well the OP asked for before 1900, but I did a timeline where Powell runs as an independent in '96 (it has some things go his way via authorial fiat). Powell wins the popular vote, Clinton is 2nd and wins the most electoral votes, but the election goes to the House where Dole wins (the House...

But that "influence" is going to people you don't want voting. Are Reconstruction era white Democrats going to worry about losing the influence of African Americans voting Republican?

How would stopping people who are going to vote for the "wrong" party less beneficial under majority popular vote (or what system?) than the EC?

Don't see why Zoroaster Persia couldn't have done well.