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Well, had Al Qaida hit the first WTC tower 20 minutes later (i.e. after 9:00am, when a lot of people showed up for work) and 20+ floors lower than it did (as it hit around the 96th floor, further down would have trapped that many more floors worth of people), you probably would have easily...

Yeah, and actually, that's exactly what happened. Texas was admitted before Polk's inauguration. However, had Tyler believed that admitting Texas would have been an issue with the President-elect, it's likely he wouldn't have pursued it. (in OTL, he consulted with Polk before annexation)...

I know it's too late now, but I have one very minor quibble with Reagan's resignation. He's resigning in mid-December 1986. Unless the previous month's midterm elections went REALLY badly for the Republicans, and indicated that impeachment is not only imminent, but would be the Congress's...

In "The Day After" or one of those other mid-80's nukewar aftermath movies... didn't the nuclear exchange start with NATO using tactical nukes on advancing Soviet forces in West Germany?

Or, how about a religion based on the writings of Frank Herbert?

If it hits a couple of weeks before the 1908 Olympics, it might mean the death of the modern Olympics... Paris 1900 and St. Louis 1904 were not very successful Olympic games, and if most of the Olympic officials are in London at the time of the explosion, well, the Modern Olympics would probably...

Honestly, I disagree. The US beat the Soviets to the moon, and US/Soviet relations were... well, not "great", but compared to the rest of the cold war, not all that bad either... there definitely wasn't as much feeling of competition between the two countries as there was even 5 years earlier...

New England is independent? Weird US/Mexico/bufferstate border? And Monster China supporting the Warsaw Pact? odd.

Perhaps Oregon Country could go completely to the British in the 1830's/1840's, and then go to Canada later. That would allow a higher population. Maybe an earlier/more devastating US Civil War to (1) make the US less desirable for immigration (2) make a confrontation with Britain over...

Unless the US Constitution is changed, 1956 was a presidential election year, not a midterm. Otherwise, I like your timeline. :)

Gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill before the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo was signed, so it was still technically Mexico. Sutter received his Mexican land grant in 1840, so it's not at all farfetched to assume that gold would be discovered eventually, regardless of who possesses California at...

Well, Henry Clay was "The Great Compromiser", wasn't he? I can see him coming up with pretty much the same deal concerning Oregon as what happened OTL. I don't see him going to war over Oregon. As for Texas, I think annexation could have still happened, but at the boundries that Mexico...

I initially wanted to start this timeline because I wanted to see an independent California, and this seemed like the most likely way to achieve that. My only question is with Texas... OTL, Texas was annexed before Polk was inaugurated; do you think it's likely that it'll be put off until...

This is my first time starting a thread and proposing a timeline, so bear with me... The US Presidential election of 1844 was basically a referendum on US territorial expansion. The Democratic candidate, Polk, called for the annexation of Texas as well as US claims to all of Oregon country...

I don't think it's plausible to get that US/Mexico border (nevermind some of the other borders) with a POD of before the 1850's.

Just a (very) minor quibble, but in 1866, there weren't a whole lot of "native Californians" that were of voting age; Almost the entire population that was born pre-1850 would have been immigrants. Unless by "native" you mean, "pre-war citizens"?

About a week after the attacks on Sept 11, the president, acting on intelligence that Osama Bin Laden is hiding in a cave complex in the mountains in southern Afghanistan, orders the launch of a multiple-warhead ICBM to vaporize every living organism within 50 miles of the target. Following...

Well, yeah, there will always be protests. But the Afganistan protests OTL were fairly insignificant, and I don't see any reason for them to be greater in this TL.

Also, why would there be protests against invading Afghanistan, when OTL no such thing happened? Especially since in this TL, the people who'd normally protest military involvement are, arguably, on the side of the Democratic party and would be less likely to protest against a Democratic president?

Interesting. I'm curious to see where this leads. And as a Bay Area native, I'm also wondering if SF gets rebuilt in this TL.