Your challenge is to have the U.S. still remain with 48 states all the way up to 2016.
Russia doesn't sell Alaska, and Britain takes over Hawaii.
Done. That'll be $2 million please!![]()
Russia doesn't sell Alaska, and Britain takes over Hawaii.
Done. That'll be $2 million please!![]()
My friends, the POD must be after 1900.Or the Tsar sells Alaska to Canada!!
My friends, the POD must be after 1900.
Fine then, Mr. Smarty-Pants!
In 1983 Nuclear War erupts and by 2016 the US has only just barely restored control to the lower 48.
Good enough?![]()
Fine then, Mr. Smarty-Pants!
In 1983 Nuclear War erupts and by 2016 the US has only just barely restored control to the lower 48.
Good enough?![]()
Fine then, Mr. Smarty-Pants!
In 1983 Nuclear War erupts and by 2016 the US has only just barely restored control to the lower 48.
Good enough?![]()
How about this:
Japan does not attack Pearl Harbor. They go after the "northern option" and attack Russia. The axis does loose the war by 1946-1947. America remains pretty isolationist. The main Pacific fleet is moored in San Diego and Seattle. There is not a great investment in Hawii. Except for Dole fruits. America in an age of nuclear arms, realizes it does not need a forward naval base. Perhaps the islands join some sort of union with micro islands.
Alaska is pretty simple. IOTL Ike and most republicans did not want to admit them. Just have the republicans horse trade with the dixiecrats, who in our time were pretty much for it, and no state hood. Alaska joins Canada in the late 60's.
Here is one more point after puerto rican's assinate Truman, the US sees terr. As nothing but unloyal minorities and a financial drain and chops them.
Unrelated the first Alaskan to serve as prime minister of Canada is the Hon. Todd Palin. His wife Sarah is elected as a MP. She later serves as foreign sec. In 2014 she announces she will lead the conservative party back to power.
Your challenge is to have the U.S. still remain with 48 states all the way up to 2016.
EDIT: POD must be after 1900.
That is still not post-1900. Though Oklahoma did not become a state until 1907, it was settled by a land rush in 1889. So once homesteaders settled the territory (before 1900), statehood was inevitable.Post 1900? Oklahoma never gains statehood. Instead it is kept as a cluster of reservations directly controlled by Washington. If you want, you can have the US take a page from the South African Apartheid playbook and split Oklahoma into a dozen 'independent' Native American 'Homeland countries' so that every Native American living in any other part of the US is legally a foreigner and therefore ineligible to vote, own property and enjoy most social services.
This is one state. Now one more:
a) If the Oklahoma model proves successful, do the same with one of the Dakotas, Colorado or New Mexico.
B) Do the same with Hawaii for all Asian Americans
C) Have the 'big one' hit Los Angeles, have the San Andreas rift break open and have California sink into the ocean.
D) In order to promote rationalization, Bain Jnvestments buys Rhode Island and Maryland, lets them both go bankrupt, Sells all the profitable counties to Texas and merges the remaining ones into one new combined state while passing the bill to the federal government.
Much poorer relations between the US and UK leads to America joining the Central Powers. The join too late to save their European allies, and spend the next few years fighting the combined military forces of the Entente (which includes several Latin American countries in retaliation for the Banana Wars). After several years of economic isolation, naval defeats and the loss of the Panama Canal to a join British, French, and Columbian invasion of Panama, the Americans are brought to the negotiating table. In exchange for peace the Entente takes Hawaii, Alaska, and other overseas territories.