depends if people keep posting and bumping itis this discussion still alive?
depends if people keep posting and bumping itis this discussion still alive?
I have a question about the Japanese Spring that has been promised for March 2011 even if this story ends in 2009. I guess just like the Kobe earthquake decided the post-Sakamoto power struggle, it's the Tokuho earthquake that ignites the Japanese spring end hopefully the end of Himura Tamiko and the JWR. Or how shall I imagine this?
David, I must ask if you'd ever update this timeline to include this decade. It'd be genuinely fascinating to see your hints play out and more.
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How do Catholics vote in the USA
I'm assuming this is due to the socialist getting more liberal socially (abortion,gay marrige)?For most of the 20th Century (particularly after the First Great War), Catholic voters tended to vote for the Socialists; the first Catholic president (Al Smith) in TTL was elected by that party.
Over the last few decades in TTL (1980s-2000s) the Republicans have gained a larger share of the Catholic vote; the Republicans (and to a lesser extent the Democrats) have benefited from changing socioeconomic trends that have weakened the party loyalties of different Socialist constituencies. The Republicans have also moved to contest the power of the Socialist Party in heavily Catholic regions of the country in recent decades.
It should be mentioned that in the TTL’s USA of 2009, the Catholic Church is by far the largest single Christian church (while Protestants remain a plurality of the population).
I'm assuming this is due to the socialist getting more liberal socially (abortion,gay marrige)?
any ideas for the next 9 yearsNot necessarily. In TTL, the Republicans are arguably the most socially liberal party (which, in any case, means something different from our world’s US political spectrum).
Although there are different push-pull factors regarding party affiliation and voting patterns depending on the time and location in question, generally voters shifted away from the Socialists in TTL due to a combination of party complacency (in locations where the Socialists dominated for decades), the changing socioeconomic conditions of traditionally Socialist voting blocs, and the Republican campaigns to attract traditionally Socialist voters, to varrying degrees of success.
The Democrats experienced similar issues after the Republicans returned as national contenders in the 1980s.
So far in TTL, there have been far fewer political conflicts over social issues in the US than in our world, though that is likely to change in TTLs 2010s.
Im assuming Abortion is not apart of the republican platform, Im a catholic and I can assure you that A majority of us would vote aganst anything which held abortion in it.
any ideas for the next 9 years
Are video game consoles and games themselves up to par with OTL 2009 (when this TL ended if memory serves) or are they significantly behind or ahead?
I think you probably already said this but I forgot Rap and Jazz what's up with that with the black holocostIt isn’t a plank in any of the three party’s platforms. TTL’s USA has a very different political culture compared to OTL.
For broad trends and a few specific events, yes. But nothing written down.
I think you probably already said this but I forgot Rap and Jazz what's up with that with the black holocost
Just one question,How do Mormons vote, I think the Republicans would have a lock on them due to making Hawiil, a state
How are US aircraft overall at the current end of TTL? I.e., is the primary fighter as good as OTL's Raptor?