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How is the GOP doing with minorities? From the update it sounds like the majority of black Americans support either the Communists or the Progs/Radical Progs, with the Commonwealth and Americans being almost exclusively white.
 
How is the GOP doing with minorities? From the update it sounds like the majority of black Americans support either the Communists or the Progs/Radical Progs, with the Commonwealth and Americans being almost exclusively white.
The majority of the black vote goes to the Progressives, though there is a substantial Republican and a smaller Socialist minority. Like maybe a 70-20-10 ratio there. The Communists don't run candidates usually; they tend to back Progressive candidates with pro-Soviet policies.

This is all outside of Louisiana. There, unlike the rest of the South, black people are allowed to vote in every election. It's just that only one party ever seems to be able to achieve ballot access, so there's never much choice at the election...
 
I'm surprised the African-American vote share for the Socialists is that low.

I'm not. Many black people want to influence a party that will be in power.

For instance, in 1948, Wallace was running for president. His immense pro-civil rights views made him a hero among blacks. However, Truman won the black vote because many black people felt that voting for Wallace would just be throwing their vote away.
 

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But that would be boring. "Centrist candidate 1" vs. "Centrist candidate 2", both of which have identical policies, and "Centrist candidate 1" wins.
Reasoned debate between two different sides, leading to a smart compromise that takes the best ideas from both? I dunno, sounds like some pleasant escapism.
 
In that regard, perhaps.

When it comes to Europe....
No holocaust, LGBT Rights decades ahead, no Stalinism and a Soviet Bloc that is prosperous and considerably less repressive than OTL and thus in a much better position to reform, the Republicans won the Spanish Civil War, the political influence of the Catholic Church is considerably weakened (which is great for LGBT and Womens Rights), and there's no where near the level of devastation on the scale of OTL WW2. 1944 Europe ITTL is considerably better off than 1944 Europe IOTL.
 
No holocaust, LGBT Rights decades ahead, no Stalinism and a Soviet Bloc that is prosperous and considerably less repressive than OTL and thus in a much better position to reform, the Republicans won the Spanish Civil War, the political influence of the Catholic Church is considerably weakened (which is great for LGBT and Womens Rights), and there's no where near the level of devastation on the scale of OTL WW2. 1944 Europe ITTL is considerably better off than 1944 Europe IOTL.

In many ways, Europe is better than OTL. But it's still not at utopian levels. While the Soviet bloc is better than OTL, it's still not anywhere close to liberal democracy, and the Soviet bloc is actually slightly bigger than OTL.
 
In many ways, Europe is better than OTL. But it's still not at utopian levels. While the Soviet bloc is better than OTL, it's still not anywhere close to liberal democracy, and the Soviet bloc is actually slightly bigger than OTL.

Also, the world seems primed for an even bigger European war some point down the line.

Right "now", the world is arguably a better place than OTL, but the shit could really hit the fan in the next decade or two.
 
Also, the world seems primed for an even bigger European war some point down the line.

Right "now", the world is arguably a better place than OTL, but the shit could really hit the fan in the next decade or two.

Specially because, unless I am wrong, no one has developed nukes yet.
 
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