Women's Suffrage

Okay, so it sounds like the situation was a lot like the Soviet Union after their revolution. Well, put the internal enemies in jail, and matter-of-factly and with understatement expose and discredit them. That shows more strength and comes off better and hopefully starts to build the middle on your behalf.

With executions, people who could have been middle of the roaders and moderately on your side just pull back uncertain, plus you're helping to create martyrs.

I'm sure there are exceptions. But I think this is generally the case and the way to play the poker hand so to speak.
 

TFSmith121

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Explained below re NJ by Alon et al

Didn't a New England state, either Connecticut or Rhode Island IIRC, had limited female suffrage sometime around the 1800's? It was later repealed for some decades and reinstated at a later time I think, but I don't recall the specifics.

Explained below re NJ by Alon et al.

The antebellum years seem a possible departure point to me precisely because of the nature of the conflict and the historical examples; from the Veteran's Reserves in the Old Northwest after the Revolution to the GI Bill, wartime service tended to yield political and civil rights in the US.

If enough of Louisa Mae Alcott and her contemporaries offer their services in 1861-65, it's possible the post-war civil rights amendments could include suffrage.

A surviving Lincoln would help, of course.;)

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