From the book "The Rise of the Constitution Party," Richard Cheney, 1996
"The Conservatives had done well despite not having a lot to go on except for beign Big Business... Fairbanks was an ironic choice given that many of them were Northeasterners who had, first, rejected Tammany Hall, second, supported McKinley's 'The business of America is business' attitude, and third, opposed the stricter Democrats who wanted more segregation while at the same time opposing the Populists. It could be said theyw ere more known... for what they were against.
"The heyday of the party was in the Roaring Twenties, when Frank Lowden won election in 1920 over Leonhard Wood for the Republicans, Oscar Underwood for the Democrats, and Charles Bryan for the Populists... PresidentGarfield'sson had famously said that, 'I do not choose to run in 1920, because I think the country is tired of Progressivism... Vice President Calvin Coolidge had narrowl been selected over James M. Cox, who was promised a job at State, where he performed rather well... Lowden was most famous for articulating the concept in 1917 that 'one should never mistake a labor problem or any other type for a ace problem - Brownsville taught us [10 years ago] that there are evildoers who will try to divide, rather than unify, our country...'
"State Secretary Cox won in 1928, but when the Depression hit, he was sunk; he still polled slightly better than Democrat John Nance Garner in 1932, though, with Republican James R. Garfield and his Progressive policies helping lift the nation out of the Depression witht he help of Northern Populists like Governor Franklin Roosevelt, who had been promised a role at Treasury to unify the groups and who helped provide a lot of Garfield's ideas such as the CCC, Social Security expansion after Bryan got it passed in 1914, the FDIC, and so on... Roosevet would go on to win the White House in 1940 but, ironically, Garfield would outlive him by 4 years..."
"The Civil Rights Act of 1935" - Omnipedia
"The 1935 Civil Rights Act, pushed gthrough as part of the New Deal legislation, was designed to enforce intgegration in stgate offices in the South, eliminate poll taxes and other thigns which hampered voting, and do other thigns which strengthed the Lodge Act... It did not address equality in housing or int he private sector, that wouldn't come till the lae 1940s and early 1950s, but it was seen as a huge step in the right direction by Garfield and his Kansas Vice President, who was also instrumental in helping to win over Northern and Western Populists, as was Governor Roosevelt, who...led a group away from the Populists, who were led by Huey Long, who was accused of not only being too far Left but also of being too corrupt..."
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Okay, I've laid some groundwork for the United States through the '40s, I've got Europe maybe having World war One break out differently with the U.S. not involved and maybe not Britain - who knows, if therre's a Belgain conflict and Germany wants to push its way into getting access tot he coast, though, the British might jump in fast.
But, that's up to others - Russia might not have lost the Russo-Japanese War, it might be a draw, it might not happen.
We do know there's no Lenin, no Stalin, and the Mensheviks who favor less Party control, are the dominant group among the far left. But, is martov enough of a leader to unite them? Will Trotsky and he spit? Will there be so much chaos somethign else happens in Russia?
This is all for the rest of you to post about. I've made things a bit better for minorities in the U.S. (probably 2 millin or so fewer people in the US, too, in 1915 with less immgrants), no second Klan forming, people see blacks in entertainment like baseball and there will be black heavyweight champs, too, just not Jack Johnson's power. It's a bit more like the late 1940s for several secades from 1900-1935 but it's probably the best that could be hoped for, anyway.
Still, if nobody else wants to continue this, and it ends here, I'm satisfied. I didn't start it, but I got it to a logical point where others can fill int he gaps.