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The 1972 election was the biggest landslide in US history. Nixon took every electoral vote except Mass. and DC, with the Libertarian party grabbing a single slot from Kentucky. I'm not quite sure why this map has Republicans in blue and Democrats in red, but whatevs, it gets the point across...

They could but, again, these bases are deep in Russian territory. Imagine if, instead, Russian bases popped up in, say, 1970s Chicago and how hard it would be to try to evacuate or destroy everything before the US managed to respond, even with a serious tech advantage.

I suspect he means the US will pull an Afghanistan and leave a few billion in advanced hardware for the USSR to reverse-engineer, in this case exacerbated by the fact that many US bases are deep in 1970s Russian territory with no supply line, way out, or way to get reinforcements unless the US...

One effect any ISOT like this is going to have is on the concept of unity. It's not going to escape notice that this happened specifically along political lines, during a time of extreme political polarization. People are going to always have in the back of their minds that it could happen...

On the downtime side, I doubt any otl politician will be getting their vote. The MAGA crowd I think is more likely to pick from their own numbers, there's too much of a divide between 2020 culture and 1970 culture, downtimers won't have the right slang, know the right cultural references, or...

So it appears to be going by county, so let's get a map: Basically, the vast majority of the land just went back in time. Upstream, US is hosed on a grand scale. It just lost half its population, and that's the specific half that does the lion's share of fighting, food production, mining...