Oddly, the US gets suddenly a lot more liberal vs. the 1970s, but no where near all the way. Racism is dead, 100%. Gays, who just started their protests en masse in 1969, suddenly have a ton of relatively hugely accepting people, in redneck places, but at the same time, the gays from uptime look at them like "WTF? why are you so degenerate, stop." It stops the AIDS epidemic easily.
I thought that most of the truly insane crap happened in highly liberal areas, like San Francisco, Portland and New York, and that MAGAFAGS would be relatively less degenerate by comparison.
Also, I'd pay money to see Milo and Rubin in a discussion with the likes of Buckley and maybe Rand Paul having a conversation with Ayn Rand about taxes and gubrmint.
IMHO the big winners will be Goldwater conservatives, no idea if paleocons like Buchanan were a thing back then, but he will probably reap benefits from the situation, too.if he is still around.
Do you suppose there would be an exodus of liberal people, minorities and gays
into the red states since they would be a lot less racist and a lot more accepting?
The big thing is that everyone is going to be pissed about is the 'coming' Roe v Wade case, and the need to stop it ASAP. Also, gun rights is huge in MAGA country, while not a 1970s republican thing.
A big question is what do they do about reallocation of House seats? The census just happened, so it could be 10 years before seats are reallocated.
They will probably be forced to "merge" the results, from what I understand it would mean disenfranchising a lot of Uptimers otherwise, and that will not go well.
Temporary poverty is also fairly large, as a large number of people just lost their life savings, as it was stored in computers. This might get solved, might not.
Aren't US local banks and branches forced to keep at least some info on deposits?
A bunch of people might lose some of their investments unless they have physical proof of ownership, and even then stock splits, buybacks and restructurings will be a pain.
On the flip side, though, I think that a lot of Uptime debt just got wiped off the face of the earth, and they would also own physical assets.
If uptime currency is taken at face value, then it would probably be very inflationary.
An important thing to do is figure out which important figures are suddenly lost forever, as a side thing, both ones from the 1970s from the 2020.
Also, most important: with military bases, we suddenly invaded the USSR. That's a big fucking problem. If it doesn't trigger war, it does mean the USSR gets a ton of advanced tech too, so no ROFL stomp.
But are those places big, established and permanent enough to be designated as some form of legal equivalent to county for US electoral purposes?
I know that some military bases in Germany and the Middle East for example are like mini-cities, with their own entertainment, schools and other facilities and with family housing, but I am unaware of such facilities in Eastern Europe or anything held by China at the time.
Ike's initial interstate project, authorized by Congress in 1956, wasn't completed until 1992 and we were still building more and adding to it. There were also US Highways (a post WWI project) which included things like the Million Dollar Highway (US 550 in SW Colarado and one of only two paved north-south federal highways in SW Colarado). Parts of it are basically a 2-lane paved ledge cut into the side of a cliff with no shoulder or guardrails.
My point is that the USA was a large, industrialized first world power, the top dog for at least 55 years in 1970 where manufacturing was concerned, so I am pretty sure that much of the road and rail networks that exist today would have existed back then as well.