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That's a neat idea. I always wear a hat when I leave the house. I wish they would make a comeback.

Greater German emigration to its colonies and not losing them during WW1 would probably be a good start.

Yes. In the last year or two before his death Stalin secretly proposed that Germany be reunified but declared a neutral state. The Americans refused because: A. They didn't trust Stalin. B. Germany is a good strategic point for basing troops. If Germany was neutralized and WP forces crossed...

Hmmmm not sure how to best bring this about. Thomas Jefferson was a bit of a linguist. Perhaps in the early years of American independence it's decided that Latin will be taught in US schools alongside English, because of its role in Western history. More German and Slavic immigrants in the 19th...

Interesting map. It would probably do alot to reduce inter-Arab and inter-Muslim fighting and squabbling in the MidEast. Establishing a Free Kurdistan of that size would be very thorny though, if not impossible.

Virginia and some northern states go to war over Western land claims. Or the post independence spirit of liberty awakens abolitionist sentiment earlier and the South forms it's own Union after a brief war in the 1780s or 1790s.

Project Cybersyn

Yeah, they are likeable in a quirky way. What I get a kick out of is that the secessionist people there seem somewhat conservative politically. Even if Vermont was independent the SVR guys would drown in blue votes.

I agree with Keenir. Once (during the Revolution I think) George Washington himself wondered if the Americans would need to send troops to overthrow the Vermont government. If Vermont didn't join the US of its own volition, the US would have eventually occupied it, especially if the talk of...

If you want Mexico to retain it's 1824 borders, you need to either have a more benevolent autocrat than Santa Anna or a greater sense of federalism and decentralization in Mexico. Take Texas for example. In 1826 some American settlers tried to revolt and form the Republic of Fredonia in Texas...

Maybe they wouldn't become states, free or slave. Of all the land the US annexed in 1848 for example, only California became a state before the Civil War.

I could be way off base here, but I think annexing these areas would make the US less tolerable of illegal immigration, especially from Mexico. If we annex these territories, our southern border will be closer to Mexico's population centers. That means when Mexico has it's occasional revolution...

Good point. Since Coahuila, Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon are right south of Texas, I imagine the CSA would exercise at least nominal control of them during the Civil War.

Like Redem said, the expanded Purchase would be what we bought plus all the Mexican states that border the US now. If we actually acquired those states? I can't find population numbers but I read that Mexico's northern states were thinly settled until the early 20th century. I don't know the...

Hmmmm well, California used to be a moderate to conservative state. It voted Republican for President 9 out of 10 times between 1952 and 1988. Have different migration patterns. Have all the hippies and homosexuals and counterculture and artsy types that set up base in San Francisco settle in...

No kidding. Or medicaid for Junior's snotty nose. I didn't agree with him, but I spun an idea out of it.

That got me thinking of an article I read once: http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=081505A One complaint about American democracy, especially the Senate, is unequal representation re: larger and smaller states. That article and sunsurf's posts made me think of a POD. Have a US...

My idea for an alternate federal government would be more elections outside the legislative branch. Right now only the Presidency/Vice-Presidency are elected offices in the executive branch. Change it so that say, the offices of Attorney-General, Secretary of War, Secretary of the Treasury, and...

This could have happened. From the 1870s to 1914 Algeria saw not only French but Spanish and Italian immigration. If European emigration to Algeria had been heavier or if emigration was encouraged again after WW1 maybe...... A couple of my own: The British colonies in America declare their...

I don't know if this moist prohibition has ever been applied at a national level, but it's not unheard of. A town close to me is "semi-dry" like that. It's bars and grocer can sell beer and wine but not hard liquor. Back in the '70s in Iowa the legal drinking age for beer and wine was 18 or 19...