what if Upton Sinclair had been elected Governor of California in 1934 and had instuted his "EPIC" plan there? Would he have challenged FDR in 1936.? Would he have been reelected in 1938?
Hollywood would be in New York.
The nature of his EPIC program was pretty different from the New Deal. He proposed building an alternative to capitalism, not just reforms, basically a co op system of trading goods and services.
The interesting thing to see would be how (or if) EPIC could survive WWII or Cold War red baiting.