OOC: No worries on my part either. What's happened, happened.
IC: Wilson? I agree, he shouldn't have run for a third term. We might have had an end to the Dixie "Jim Crow" apartheid laws in the 1950s or 60s instead of the 1990s if he hadn't. But he wasn't nearly as bad as McCarthy (worst President EVER, even worse than that imbecile Bush) even with his third term. I'd put him in Taft's league.
IC: At least when they were repealed, they were gone for good. So many people were just too pissed off at the segregationists for them to stick around much longer.
I think the turning point was when the Supreme Court overturned the remaining anti-interracial marriage laws in November 1970. After the edict went into full effect in April 1971 the ultra-cons threw a massive collective tantrum by rioting that lasted until the end of July; over 400 people, a good number of them white citizens who just happened to be stuck in the midst of it all, were killed.
I believe the last states to have Jim Crow laws were Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama, when they were repealed by gov't order in June 1990.(Florida and Louisiana did so in 1976, followed by Texas and Oklahoma in 1980, and Tennessee in 1982. Can't quite remember all the others at this moment though.)
OOC: Edit: changed at EdM's request. =)
Could work. I doubt this timeline would see the NAZI's but that is not to say the ATL will be good. I'm thinking a Trotsky'esque Russia which has triumphed in Poland and has allied itself with Hungary might be a good option.
The 1920's depression is easy enough to do (as one pretty much happened). The US in OTL overextended itself with the wartime economy and fell to earth once the European powers started pursuing more protectionist policies in order to rebuild their shattered finances. If governmental controls on consumption linger just a bit longer than necessary you might have your ideal situation.
OOC: Possibly not the Nazis themselves, though I do think that some ultra-right party would have come into power, possibly incorporating some of OTL's Nazis.
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