The Peach State Populist: the Story of Bernie Sanders

Snowballs in Hell??

Would Bernie Sanders survive in the south?
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Here is Bernie Sanders being arrested at a 1963 anti-segregation protest in Chicago. He was later found guilty of resisting arrest and charged $25.

How would cops in Georgia react to a radical white male protesting and resisting arrest?

Let's see -- a Yankee, Jewish, Socialist, Integrationist? I dunno, maybe long enough to choke on a bowl of grits?

Seriously, it would depend if he kept his head down on race, and played up the populist economics bit until he gained some traction, or waited for the Klan to go into decline...
(Here's one for you -- Bernie Saunders and George Wallace -- working together for the "little guy".) :eek:
 
Bernard Sanders graduated from high school in Brooklyn, before going to the University of Georgia in Athens. His dad had considered a number of higher education institutes, including the University of Chicago, but selected Georgia because he thought the low cost of living in Georgia would allow his son to live a better life than the family had in Brooklyn. His son would be something of a lousy student, but found that he fit right in with the liberal community of the city.

When Eli Sanders died, Bernard travelled back to New York for his funeral. This was a watershed moment because his mother had died three years earlier; he was now fully orphaned. He would soon learn of his father's fate: he had died of cancer, and that he had hid this from him in order to not distract him from his education. Bernard learned that his dad had died due to his father not being able to afford adequate medical care. This made him determined to make a difference.

Returning to Georgia, his veins were more pumped than ever. He would try his utmost to make the world a better place. He soon found a way to expend these energies - the civil rights movement.
 
If you could get Bernie into the last days of MLK when he started to preach a platform similar to Bernie's current platform, that might help things along.
 
I think this TL idea is very interesting, the idea of Bernie jumpstarting socialism in the new south is very cool. Bernie in the south could tap into a gold mine of opportunity, like potentially teaming up with MLK and the oppressed black population in the south. The one issue I want to address is where he's going to live and what university he'll go to. Personally, I think he'll most likely to go to UGA, since Mercer is just not a place I'd see him going to and Emory is a medical school. The best place for him to live is most likely to live in is actual metro Atlanta.
 
I think this TL idea is very interesting, the idea of Bernie jumpstarting socialism in the new south is very cool. Bernie in the south could tap into a gold mine of opportunity, like potentially teaming up with MLK and the oppressed black population in the south. The one issue I want to address is where he's going to live and what university he'll go to. Personally, I think he'll most likely to go to UGA, since Mercer is just not a place I'd see him going to and Emory is a medical school. The best place for him to live is most likely to live in is actual metro Atlanta.
Thanks for the input.
So next thing I should do is have him move in Atlanta?
 
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