Would a Protestant Spain have fallen to Franco??

Plausible!:eek:

Unfortunately, I don't think it's plausible enough - according to Tocomocho, Franco was made out of a Titanium-Diamond alloy, so scrap Francosaurus and say hello to Mecha Francozilla! :D

(Okay, seriously. This is getting out of hand. Let's just quit while we're ahead here. :p)

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If by some chance the reformation in 1536 had been a success in Spain (like it was in Northern Europe) and the counter-reformation had failed, and Spain had become a majority Protestant country. Would Franco have been able to take power in Spain, come the 20th Century? I have read that one of main reasons why Franco was able to take power in Spain was that he had the support of a Powerful anti-socialist Catholic Church. If you butterfly away the fact that Spain was a Catholic Country and make the majority of the people of Spain into Lutherans. Would we have seen Franco or any version of him and his later regime?


Let's see,

Spain becoming Protestant in the 16th Century? Most highly improbable and far fetched.

Franco coming to power in Spain (let alone existing at all) in the 1930s given a 16th century POD? Not happening due to butterflies.

A Francoish regime ruling Spain in the mid-20th Century of an alt-TL given a 16th century POD? Impossible to tell and absolutely unknowable, though possible.
 
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