Planning Thread for a 1920's US Political Thread

If you manage to avoid the Great Depression in the way you just described, keep in mind that you've also killed the Democratic Party as a national political party. The only reason why the Democratic Party survived as a national party is because the Great Depression forced organized labor and Northern workers into the Democratic camp under Roosevelt. Without it, the Democrats will simmer in their own juices, and where the labor movement and the political left in the North goes is anyone's guess. An American labor party? In all likelihood, yes. Probably won't unseat the Republicans until a major national crisis.

Yes. The modern-day Democratic Party was pretty much created by FDR and his New Deal Coalition. Remove the Great Depression and the New Deal, and the Democratic Party becomes a conservative Southern regional party. I think some kind of Socialist/Labor Party is likely to emerge and unite the most of the New Deal Coalition groups; minorities, unions, and liberals, essentially. The Republicans are probably going to become a more centrist/slightly right-leaning party, while the Democrats are probably going to be limited to Southern whites and extreme conservatives.
 
Yes. The modern-day Democratic Party was pretty much created by FDR and his New Deal Coalition. Remove the Great Depression and the New Deal, and the Democratic Party becomes a conservative Southern regional party. I think some kind of Socialist/Labor Party is likely to emerge and unite the most of the New Deal Coalition groups; minorities, unions, and liberals, essentially. The Republicans are probably going to become a more centrist/slightly right-leaning party, while the Democrats are probably going to be limited to Southern whites and extreme conservatives.
Are Progressives still around? Could we get something like Canada's NDP, a merger between Prairie socialists and Organized Labr?
 
Duverger's Law is so strong in the USA by the 1930s that I would not count on a Third Party making permanent gains as an easy proposition. If the Progressives begin making serious grounds, the most likely result is that either the Republicans or Democrats will absorb their platform or the Progressives will make the Democrats go extinct.
 
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