california

  1. Nightingale

    Series: California swing state if Dems were Populist and the GOP was moderate (Rockefeller-type)?

    Perhaps if the Dems turn to the right on social issues, make the economy truly progressive and the New Deal coalition is retained and experience a far-reaching Revolution on the scale of OTL Reagan's in the chaos of the 1980 election, and the South stays Democratic. The Republicans are the ones...
  2. Nightingale

    Series: Populist Democrats vs. Libertarian GOP, California a swing state?

    Now I'm asking this because while I can say the Democrats would be dominant even in urban Los Angeles due to Latinos voting Democrat 95% (by-and-large, Latinos are socially conservative and economically progressive), I don't know how it will affect voters in the more northern parts of...
  3. ronaldo

    Bullet trains in the united states and north america

    Could the United States have bullet trains? In what period would this be possible? Could there be trains bullets that linked Canada, the United States and possibly Mexico? Maybe a train connecting Cuba and Florida? A train line of bullets trains that connect California, Texas, Florida...
  4. GauchoBadger

    How does the lack of a Gadsden Purchase affect the ACW?

    So, suppose that either the US government is uninterested in the purchase of more territory in the southern border or that the mexican government is more reluctant to give up even more territory to the gringos. How does such a lack of a proper connection between southern Arizona and southern...
  5. thezerech

    What if California seceeded from the Union during the Civil War to stay neutral?

    For those of you who did not know, California actually did come close to seceding from the Union during the Civil War. The Governor John B. Weller had decided if it came to war between the States, he would try and secede from the Union to form an Independent California Republic. However his term...
  6. Question. . .

    Has anyone but GovernorGeneral done a TL recently that in involves S. M. Stirling's Emberverse? Because I was thinking of sending 2016 California to the Emberverse, around the time of CY 8 or so, and having technology turn back on in the world when California got there.
  7. WI: Particle Accelerator Complex constructed in Texas or California

    So SSC Desertron was a planned project to construct a Particle Accelerator Complex in Texas during the 90s but did not go through because of budget problems. I was wondering if their is a possibility of a Complex to go through but instead of being funded by the government is funded by the...
  8. Green Revolution on the Golden Gate

    Total Recall: Schwarzenegger Wins Gubernatorial Election Over Bustamante and McClintock October 8, 2003 SACRAMENTO, CA - The votes have been counted, and Gray Davis will be out of the governor’s mansion by the end of the year. In his place will be actor turned politician Arnold Schwarzenegger...
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