Confederacy wins war

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We (the United States) better not lose.

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How do you make colores defy lines on your maps?

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This TL is great.  Have you planned out how far in time you're going to take it yet?

Well, I'm hoping to make it go until modern days (ie 2008 election or 2010 midterms), but I don't know how much time it will take me to reach this point.

Well, given that you've covered from the Civil War to World War II in only six pages (some timelines take above ten pages, or into the thirties or forties), if you take the perspective of a historian more than focusing on each individual race, you could have this wrapped up by twelve pages.

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Antonio, I have a  couple questions about you JFK Lives timeline, which, when that was going on, I wasn't on the forum to comment on, though it was interesting:

1) Why did you make Reagan win re-election but lose the popular vote?

2) Why, after sixteen years of Republicans, were they not more dominant after the Reagan era? The only Republican you had elected between 1988 and 2008 was Jeb Bush for one term.

3) How was Dean so popular as a President? From what I've heard, he was one of the most Liberal of all the Democrats running in 2004.

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About Dean: This is just a nitpick, but people generally credit Reagan with re-aligning America to the right. In this, however, it's more of Reagn's secodn term and Bush's first term. I'm just wondering if those two terms would have the same affect on America from 1988-on, and apparently not because Dean got elected in 2000. That's all that I'm saying.

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Will this continue? I liked it and I want to see politics develop after an Allied Victory in World War II.

I like how the Left-Right alignment of the parties that we know today comes about much earlier because the Democrats collapse without the South. This, apparently, results in the rise of the Progressives (Liberal/Left), thus polarizing the Republicans at the other end of the spectrum (Conservative/Right). In real life, within the last eighty or so years, the alignment of the parties only became permanent sometime between the New Deal and the 1980's. Even then, Conservative Democrats and Liberal Republicans still had a chance until around 1976/1980.

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After re-reading the "JFK Lives" part, I have a couple more questions:

It appears that Powell is Vice-President twice, and Secretary of Defense at least once. What is the history of Colin Powell in office? Is he national security adviser for George Bush, does he work for Gore as Secretary of State?

How does Dean win with Nader eating up 8% of the vote? And how does Nader joepardize Republicans? Why does Nader gain so much traction when Dean's running?

I also like the idea that the Republicans nominate Buchanan as a sacrifice candidate in 1992. I once had a timeline in my head that diverged in 1972, and resulted in Buchanan winning the nomination in 2000 and losing to Lieberman in the general.

I also just noticed that it says in 1972 that RFK runs as an Indepenent, however, he's not mentioned at all in the election results. Did you write that then forget it?

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Don't forget to mention the guy that link you to it, **Ahem**.

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You know, I would have assumed it was the Republicans who would collapse with a Confederate victory. After all, it would mean the Democratic copperheads were justified in wanting to negotiate a peace and the Republicans would be tainted with losing the south.

That's sort of a debate for me. On the one hand, the Democrats lose their most reliable region. On the other, Republicans are the ones to blame for losing the war and being seen as too radical. Although I would hazard to guess that post-Civil War industrial expansion would have played into Republicans' favor.