Would any states support the business plot if it occurred?

Say MacArthur is tapped to lead the coup instead of Butler, and the coup actually occurs.
Would any states defect? Where would support for the coup be concentrated?
 
Accusations have been made that one or more of the DuPont family were involved. They more or less owned Delaware, so if their involvement is correct then Delaware?
 
Not so sure about south. There were certain progressive strains, even above and beyond Huey Long and lesser known politicians.

Yes, the business plotters will try to buy off the south with segregation, just like the Nazis tried to buy off the industrialists, the anti-semites, the traditionalists, etc.
 
Not so sure about south. There were certain progressive strains, even above and beyond Huey Long and lesser known politicians.

Yes, the business plotters will try to buy off the south with segregation, just like the Nazis tried to buy off the industrialists, the anti-semites, the traditionalists, etc.

Try... but that would imply there was a threat to segregration within the South that they felt they'd need defending from in exchange for their state autonomy. I'm not sure in the early 30's you could say Dixie politicans were afraid of anybody trying to interfere with the situation enough to feel the need for a far-right protector.
 
As said before, the South. It will likely develop into Civil War 2.0 with the North winning again.

The most important impact of this will be WWII, no oil embargo in Japan, the US is going to need money to rebuild itself. This means no Pearl Harbor and Japan defeats China.

The US will be even more isolationist and need resources, this means no Lend-Lease or supplying Britain. Britain either makes peace after the Fall of France or shortly after that, when they cant keep sustaining the war effort.

It will all come to Germany vs the USSR. Can Germany win without the western front and Lend-Lease? Probably not.

WWII ends with either the USSR, or Germany as the sole superpower. If it ends with a Soviet-German stalemate then the next superpower will be Japan.
 
Not sure on the South supporting the coup. FDR was a Democrat and the South was a Democrat stronghold, so they probably won't take a removal of one of theirs lightly.
 
I mean, the supposed aim of the Business Plot (if it existed) was to force FDR to accept a appoint Butler to the unconstitutional office of "Secretary of General Affairs" who would have the real power while the President was reduced to a figurehead. If it had "succeeded" FDR wouldn't have been removed, let alone taken behind the white house to be shot. So, in that case, probably all the states would support it initially - after all the only thing that has happened is the President has appointed a popular General as Secretary of General Affairs to help deal with those poor vets who want a bigger voice in government, because he's feeling a bit ill. Only later on would things start to feel off, and by then the whole situation might have already become legitimised.

The true test would be what happens when the time comes for another Presidential election.
 
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Could you provide examples of these progressive southerners?
They seem like interesting characters
There was Gov. “Big Jim” Folsom of Alabama first elected I think in ‘46.

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/news/20021222/southern-lights-big-jim-folsoms-christmas-vision

‘ . . . He got funding for farm-to-market roads, trade schools, pensions for the elderly and new hospitals around the state. He advocated prison reform. . . ’
And one year he also gave a Christmas message, in which he asked if we were really doing right by our fellow citizens who are African-American?

And he’s the guy who Folsom prison is named after which Johnny Cash sings about! Maybe “prison reform” is not enough and the main thing is just not to put people in prison in the first place
 
In terms of electoral politics the Democrats were resurgent at this time. Ie: in Indiana the election of Govenor Nutt overturned several decades of Republican party domination, including the legislature. Socially & culturally this resurgence represented the increasingly populist & progressive nature of the electorate. A group of reactionary businessmen attempting to control the Executive Branch and override Congress is going to be called out by a wide number of politicians and other leaders who have their faith and money on the other dog.

Its even questionable if MacArthur would be their man. His political views of the 1930s were not quite the same as those of the 1950s. His willingness to play chicken with Constitutional boundaries is ambigious. Also Mac lacked the popularity with the ranks in the Army and the veterans of leaders like Butler & others. Even among the officers he was seen as a example of a wealthy elitist a..hole who had gained his position through family & political connections.
 
If delaware is in, so its New Jersey. A harry Moore, fought for disability inclusion in 1934. A reformer through upheaval.
 
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