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  1. vega

    WI: U.S. Doesn't Grant China Most Favored Nation Status in 1998?

    What if the U.S. doesn't give China the status of most favored nation in 1998? Would they have liberalized more? Would they have been as successful in gaining economic power?
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    AHC: No One Drop Rule; Colored-Americans?

    Since we're talking about retroactive racial changes, wouldn't it be possible for a group of lighter skinned blacks to call for acknowledgement? A lot of ethnic groups have campaigned for recognition despite the public perception being different from their own.
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    AHC: No One Drop Rule; Colored-Americans?

    Just like how Irish we're considered non-white until the whites needed a numbers boost? ;)
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    AHC: No One Drop Rule; Colored-Americans?

    I think the difference would be, in this ATL, that colored would be a separate racial category. Obviously the terms shifted in the US (thankfully they got more polite...) but obviously being colored in the US was different than South Africa, as the latter was different from being black (not...
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    AHC: No One Drop Rule; Colored-Americans?

    Wilder was sort of an interesting case study... I imagine he had around ~60% non-African ancestry. Him & his wife on the cover of Jet (one of the premier Black magazines of the time)...
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    AHC: No One Drop Rule; Colored-Americans?

    When an African-American is referred to as "light skin" usually it is based on appearance, though, and not tangible ancestry. Perhaps that's a function of colorism. Reminds me of the first Black governor, who under the OP would likely be seen as "colored".
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    AHC: No One Drop Rule; Colored-Americans?

    Doesn't one sort of depend on the other?
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    AHC: No One Drop Rule; Colored-Americans?

    Indeed, you're very right. I wonder how different the country that would result would be.... the lack of Civil War would surely be a benefit both economically and obviously on a human basis.
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    AHC: No One Drop Rule; Colored-Americans?

    Well, I think barring an extreme ATL, the US will have a white majority. My main thought in making this thread was how the already existing biracial and "light-skinned" African Americans could be considered colored instead, not necessarily have a plurality or anything. It's interesting to me...
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    AHC: No One Drop Rule; Colored-Americans?

    I feel like the difference between Latin America and even this ATL U.S. would be that Whites would still be a majority, even with Colored being it's own category, and interracial relationships being more common.
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    AHC: No One Drop Rule; Colored-Americans?

    The AHC here is to have Colored be a racial category as it is in South Africa and other countries, that would those with 50% and less African ancestry. I imagine the main way to accomplish this would be to get rid of the idea of a "one drop rule", which perhaps could be done by having gradual...
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    WI: Clinton vetoed the Telecom Act of 1996

    Just some info on what the bill did... Lengthened license renewals to 8 years for both radio and TV, and eliminated the "comparative renewal" For radio, eliminated all national caps on the number of radio stations in which one party could have an attributable interest and increased to 8...
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    AHC/WI: Iran-Contra Not Discovered

    What if Iran-Contra was never discovered - at least not during the 80s as it was OTL? Many nefarious CIA plots are never made public knowledge, and what if the same was true for this one? Additionally, what if it came out in the 90s, while Clinton was President. Might he be blamed? I imagine...
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    WI: U.S. Keeps the Panama Canal Zone?

    If Reagan was in office in 1977, what would happen then? I imagine there wouldn't be a treaty, so would it just be delayed?
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    WI: U.S. Keeps the Panama Canal Zone?

    Anyone have thoughts?
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    WI: Britney Spears and Kevin Federline didn't have kids

    I imagine that post-breakdown she wouldn't really have as much impetus to get back up. The weird trusteeship that her father has over her money might be different as well.
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    WI: U.S. Keeps the Panama Canal Zone?

    What if the US kept the Panama Canal Zone? Reportedly Noriega threatened to blow it up if it wasn't returned to Panama proper, but what if that was just him bluffing/posturing (as it likely was). Does the U.S. just have a strip of land in central America? What are the effects of maintaining it...
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    WI: Better response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 80s?

    Good to see such informed folks in this thread.... It seems even in Western Europe where social conservatism wasn't as much of an issue, it didn't make much of a difference did it? So even if Reagan had acknowledged AIDS and did his best to combat it, it would ultimately be somewhat futile...
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    WI: Better response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 80s?

    Let's say in ATL the SoCons aren't as much of a thread, do you think acknowledgement and some more funding would have helped reduced the impact of AIDS?
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    WI: Better response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 80s?

    As it says on the tin.... what if there was a better response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s? More funding, research, etc? Would it have made a difference?
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