AH Fixations of Yours

NHBL

NHBL

Some that I like:
Post 1800 or so: Christianity, and religion in general, becoming unimportant in the USA.
South getting crushed socially as well as militarily, so Jim Crow is stillborn
Jim Crow getting thoroughly smashed post civil war
Elimination of the Electoral College
 
Emperor Norton I

Emperor Norton I

NHBL said:
Some that I like:
Post 1800 or so: Christianity, and religion in general, becoming unimportant in the USA.
South getting crushed socially as well as militarily, so Jim Crow is stillborn
Jim Crow getting thoroughly smashed post civil war
Elimination of the Electoral College
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Really, if there was a stronger push on the "carpetbaggers" settling the South, it could have been done.
 

Darth_Kiryan

Mikestone8 said:
Perhaps throw in one more. Ex-President Polk survives his illness, lives to see the country on the verge of civil war in 1850/1, and decides he made a mistake in retiring. He wins the 1852 nomination, is elected, and has the sense to block the Kansas-Nebraska folly. He was Southern and a slaveowner, but had a good head on his shoulders and might have stopped the South going over the cliff.
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John C Calhoun lives until 1865 just to see the confederacy and slavery destroyed. Granted, he would be 83, but, could you imagine it.

An idea I had was that somehow Jackson and Calhound don't have such a bad falling out and Calhoun becomes the Chief Justice ala Roger Taney.
 

Draconis

Driftless said:
Also, I find a what-might-have-been fascination with combat aircraft that came into service in the mid-1930's, up to the start of the war. Planes where their peak performance was past the top of the technology bell-curve; like the Martin Maryland, P-35, P-36, Fairey Battle, BP Defiant, etc. Some had enough performance "legs" to find useful careers at the onset of the fight, while others should have been relegated to training, secondary theaters, or even the scrap heap. I'm a sucker for tuning in on those discussions.
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How do you like the Seversky P-43 Lancer? "You're better than the P-35 young plane but you're not a Thunderbolt yet."
 
Driftless

Driftless

Donor
Draconis said:
How do you like the Seversky P-43 Lancer? "You're better than the P-35 young plane but you're not a Thunderbolt yet."
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;) From an appearance standpoint: the unblessed love-child of the P-35 and an F4F; but that's right in my wheel-house. I love those planes that were fringe players like the Lancer; CW-21, P-66, Hawker Henley. Some were under-performing mutts, while others had a short useful operational shelf-life that passed before the start of the fight. The TBD Devastator probably fits that last group.or even others, like comparatively advanced Polish PZL.37 Łoś that came on line with insufficient numbers and support.
 
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Just Leo

Driftless said:
;) From an appearance standpoint: the unblessed love-child of the P-35 and an F4F; but that's right in my wheel-house. I love those planes that were fringe players like the Lancer; CW-21, P-66, Hawker Henley. Some were under-performing mutts, while others had a short useful operational shelf-life that passed before the start of the fight. The TBD Devastator probably fits that last group.or even the Still others, like comparatively advanced Polish PZL.37 Łoś that came on line with insufficient numbers and support.
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A faster Lancer.
 
SargentHawk

SargentHawk

1. Nixon - anything in dealing with him
2. Dystopias - fascist US, worse 50-60s, civil wars, etc.
3. Balkanized United States
4. Early Reagan ('68, '72, '76)
5. Presidents getting more than 2 terms
6. Douglas Macarthur Presidency
7. Cold war goes hot
 

phx1138

  1. Anything to do with submarines (also underwater habitats, like Sealab)
  2. No Pacific War (It's been done.)
  3. Better Pz 4, with T-34-style hull (& so no Pz 5)
  4. Bomber Command doesn't bomb cites (Don't tell me that was the only option.)
  5. No war in Vietnam
  6. Creative ways of killing off MacArthur
 

Alexander the Average

Current fixation is imagining a world where the Cold War never breaks out and the US and USSR maintain close allies. I planned a few things out until the 70s and it's a bit depressing just how much better that world is than OTL. The world is significantly more peaceful, prosperous and populous, and now I want a Rick Sanchez portal gun.
 
Lafayette_

Lafayette_

Mooring mast on top of the Empire State Building being successful and serving as New York City’s main hub of air transport until the 1970s, when, let’s say, the World Trade Center gives it a run for its money.

Anything related to rigid frame airships and, however ASB it might seem, getting them to work as a viable means of long distance transportation through modern day.

A man can dream, right?
 
Yes

Yes

Lafayette_ said:
Mooring mast on top of the Empire State Building being successful and serving as New York City’s main hub of air transport until the 1970s, when, let’s say, the World Trade Center gives it a run for its money.

Anything related to rigid frame airships and, however ASB it might seem, getting them to work as a viable means of long distance transportation through modern day.

A man can dream, right?
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Yes. Yes he can. You will please note the line of text beneath my nom-de-forum:)
 

Sam R.

It'd have to be the use of "and then things got worse" as the major mode of storytelling.

That and communist revolutions within actually existing socialist states.

Yours,
Sam R.
 
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