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Keep it up, would like to see the rest of the world!

Other than gunpowder, I don't see how the Change would make the US any less capacle than it was at the beginning of the 19th century. Add in developments in chemistry, mechanics, and biology that weren't effected and you have a society that may just be agrarian by simple majority. Remember, the...

Well, city states around military bases with good farmland around them will pop up. This would happen especially around the South, considering all the military bases in somewhat rural areas. There's just so much farmland in the eastern US!

Though not all of it. Byzantium is still there and presumably could survive in this timeline.

A stimulus is inevitable, though the form could have changed. If the the neoliberals are still as strong (i.e. conservatives still have power), then a stimulus would have come in the form of reduced taxes and tax credits for businesses. Maybe a conservative Congress would have been able to...

I never did update my contribution, so thus: Capital: Charlotte, the Queen City Government: Feudal Monarchy Head of State: King Davis Rutledge II Religion: Non-Denom (strong heretical leanings) Coat-of-Arms: Traditional palmetto flag of South Carolina The Twin Kingdoms, as they are often...

Beat you to it, I'm afraid: That's not to say that Charleston can't be like that, it will just be another of the dukedoms (?) in the Twin Kingdoms. I know that there are parts of it the Twin Kingdoms that need to change (Baptists and more interracial mixing in the lower classes), but the...

The Kingdom of Two Carolinas Capital: Charlotte, the Queen City Government: Feudal Monarchy Head of State: King Davis Rutledge II The Twin Kingdoms, as they are often called, are more like a hundred kingdoms. Even though nominally united under the Rutledge dynasty, the various Planters...

Jews that don't belong there? It's a second homeland for us!

A blockade please? I've got cousins from New Jersey that I do NOT like...

If Gaza, Palestinian territory controlled by a Palestinian government, is a bantustan, isn't Hamas's goal making all of the Holy Land into a bantustan? I'm not clear on the meaning of bantustan. What are the chances of Palestine splitting into two de jure states, a Hamas controlled state in...

Go with the one that results in the fewest amount of lives lost.

Y'know, some of the most successful resistances have been peaceful. Others only targeted military targets. I don't understand the thought processes that lead the Palestinians militants to specifically target civilian targets. Killing civilian targets is a surefire way to catch the full military...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Law Slavery was abolished by Princess Isabel, regent for for her father Dom Pedro II, in 1888. One year later, there was a republican coup that abolished the monarchy.

I'm not going to change my moral code to allow anyone conduct actions that I find reprehensible, be it the IDF or Hezbollah. Human shields are wrong, regardless of who uses them. Sound like great neighbors, don't they? That's why I like Faellins idea create a homosexual homeland- a homoland...

Harrison would have been great, in an ATL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_of_Palestine#Demographics.2C_1920 My mistake, it was Jaffa that was 72% Jewish. Haifa was 47 % Jewish, 38% Muslim, and 13% Christian. I don't believe that SoCal should secede and join Mexico, but talking about the establishment of independent...

Funny thing 'bout Lebanon- it sits on top of Israel, kinda like a hat/Canada. It wasn't halfway around the world like Iraq and the US, but rather is a close neighbor. Segments of the population that are antagonistic towards Israel have ready access to the border. Iraq/Iraqis never attacked...

Those are still defensive wars. In 1982, the objective of the IDF was not conquering Lebanon as per Germany and Poland in 1939, but rather eliminating the power base of Palestinian terrorists that had sed up camp in Lebanon. Further, the 2006 invasion of southern Lebanon had the specific aim of...

Damn, kid doesn't know how to have a spirited debate. I thought we were all looking at this in a fairly adult manner, exchanging view points and backing up our ideas with facts and philosophy. I love this kind of stuff, it keeps the mind active and the debating skills sharp. Yes, that's...