For All Time

Is there a several-paragraph or so summary of this TL? It looks quite interesting (in a train wreck sort of way), but the length of it is rather daunting.
 
Jefferson dies of a stroke during a sensitive part of his second term, his VP is worthless, and as a result the northern parts of the union form the Federal Republic of New England. While it renders any sort of Fugitive Slave Act null and void, it also leaves so few abolitionists within the "USA" that chattel slavery is never banned. The *USA conquers Mexico and adds debt-peonage to its list of legally codified castes, is on the winning side of *World War One, but has become an international pariah for its continued advocacy of slavery. I stopped reading about the time Jared was shaping up WWII, so it's probably continued since then.

I'm pretty sure that's Decades of Darkness. I could be wrong, though. I've read neither timeline.
 
Thespi is correct of course.

For All Time had FDR dying at an inopportune moment, with Henry Wallace attempting to racially integrate the Army in the middle of WWII and hilarity ensuing. America withdraws under President Taft in the 50s, and mostly bungles its race relations problems. President Robert LaFolette jr., after apologizing for failing to make meaningful progress on race relations, committed suicide with a revolver on live national television (if you were watching ABC. CBS and NBC successfully cut to color bars before he pulled the trigger.) That's America's dramatic turning point on race. However, the nastier 50s make it possible for Charles Manson to be a GOP operative, Jim Jones becomes President in '76, and the horrors just keep coming. I understand the original author quit in '78 but a variety of continuations exist.

Europe manages to bungle decolonization, with a lot of extremely unpleasant incidents of cannibalism. Fun for the whole family. The Soviet Union gets taken over by kaganovich, who keeps most of Stalin's policies into the 70s, in time for AIDS to become a very big problem in Russia.
 
Could you rename this thread something like "Question about For All Time" so that people don't confuse it with the actual timeline itself. It'll be a problem for search engines as it sits, I think.
 
Not to mention that Andrei Chikatilo becomes the new leader of the USSR, and Alexander Haig leads a coup that overthrows President Jones in 1980.
 
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