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Why is NM called "Travis"? the upper Rio Grande has been called New Mexico longer than most other states have had their modern names

Las Vegas, NV and Amarillo, TX are also anachronisms for such a POD. Also, why is the area called "New Mexico" west of what was considered New Mexico during most of the time between the 16th and late 19th centuries? (following the Rio Grande from El Paso up to Albuquerque and heading north up...

All very good points in your post but I believe you are incorrect about the total population and the distribution. I'll have to dig out some of my books but IIRC 2/3 of the "Mexican" population lived in present-day New Mexico, and the total population was something like 70k

Interesting question OP. I wonder how my state of New Mexique would have turned out differently. Perhaps Sainte-Foi would be called "Santa Fe?" instead.

Love the map but it seems you are missing Valencia County, NM :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valencia_County,_New_Mexico

I like it! Will you have some color diversity for the India region as well? Mughals, Maratha, Travancore etc.. ?

Something else that popped up in my head while reading this topic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_September_11_attacks Looks like the largest number of deaths among non-Americans were from Canada, Japan, India, the Dominican Republic, South Korea, the Philippines, Trindad and...

Pre-Sopranos I believe AMC was pretty much just playing classic movies, I don't think they had any original programming? As for Showtime it looks like the series they were playing pre-Sopranos were mainly horror and sci-fi reboots of earlier shows...

Great find! I like a good "long 18th century" scenario :p:) Anyone know of other timelines of a similar vein?

This is a very interesting scenario. I was pondering, perhaps with no Holocaust the European powers (and Japan) are more willing to use forceful means to quash native uprising in colonial areas? If the power blocs are balanced and all equally colonial, there might even be little to no incentive...

The New Jersey/New England Alliance will never fall, already I hear reports that infantry battalions are amassing on the Hudson, ready to repel invaders from Manhattan.

No Italian East Africa?

Interesting stuff. I'm always fascinated by these Alt-Hist Projects because I grew up 10 minutes or so from from the Delaware Water Gap which is a large plot of land that was originally purchased for the Tocks Island Dam project (which was ultimately scrapped).

Without an invasion of the Italian homeland there won't be much of a "resistance" movement for the allies to fund and equip, aside from minor intellectuals seeking asylum in the West or something. The mafia on the other hands presents an interesting issue but I don't see how much the Allies...

Perhaps this is ASB but what if the Western Cape had somehow become majority white during the decades? According to the Wiki article it is 18% white as of 2001. Could it have broken off from the country and become a white-majority democracy or something along those lines? Looking at the Google...

My father use to have a 1986 Volga M1244. Remember that beast? He bought it at the only Volga Dealer in NJ (the one in Garfield). I remember riding around in it when I was little, the back seat seemed like it was a living room sofa! All the polished chrome switches for the windows and door locks...

Fascinating stuff! I can't wait to read more! :)

Here is the German military equipment overview from my own WW2 1975 "Cold War" timeline: Ground Vehicles: SPz.V ‘Eber’ IFV: The main armored infantry fighting vehicle of the German military is the ‘Eber’. The ‘Eber’ (Boar) has heavier armor protection than the IFVs of other nations and is...

Catholic and Spanish-speaking, yes. As for race, boricuas are much more complicated. http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/QTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=04000US72&-qr_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_DP1&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U According to the 2000 census, some 80% described themselves as "White." Although the...

Also keep in mind that the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft were designed with very specific height and weight requirements for the seats and spacesuit interfaces into the spacecraft life control system, so it wouldn't be as easy as simple "switching places". In fact, part of the reason that the...