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Doesn't matter in the end. Southern blacks were also already gravitating en masse toward the Democrats due to the decline of the 'black and tan' Republicans who were in favor of civil rights; the ascendancy of the rival 'lily whites' who shat on the concept of civil rights because at best they...

A blunted Jacksonian Democracy movement (and it certainly wouldn't be called that since Jackson isn't alive to lead it) to be sure. He wasn't critical to it I'd say - Martin Van Buren, Thomas Benton, etc. all contributed significantly in their own ways and some of the trends we associate with...

Could perhaps see the rise of a Catholic 'Latin' bloc across the Mediterranean between this Fascist Italy, Salazar's Portugal and the Spain of Franco (or another caudillo, such as Mola Vidal) if the Nationalists still win there, plus Dollfuss' Austrofascist regime (which Mussolini tried to...

No, I meant what I said, the literal East Indonesia of history. There's a clickable link right there...

Three what-ifs for three countries whose names start with 'I', involving the historical losers in each of these scenarios... 1) 'Ireland (and their Spanish backers) wins the Nine Years' War' 2) 'Eugene de Beauharnais and the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy of which he was his stepdad's governor...

WI: 'Hittites survive the Bronze Age Collapse, Egyptians fall instead'

A Christian or otherwise foreign-friendly and non-isolationist clan coming out on top at the end of the Sengoku Period would be the easy answer, but for something different I'd rather propose the Taira/Heike winning the Genpei War. They were more interested in seafaring & maritime trade...

'WI: No Apartheid' I would imagine that Jan Smuts & his United Party winning the 1948 election would be the easiest way to start down this road, since it appears they blew D. F. Malan's National Party (even combined with their junior coalition partner, the Afrikaner Party) out of the water in...

Very difficult IMHO, Obama was extremely skittish about foreign intervention - he would basically only do it if it seemed guaranteed to be an easy layup that could be done on the cheap, with minimal or no ground presence - and the US in general wasn't interested in any more extensive foreign...

Pretty much this. The British essentially ethnically cleansed the Maritimes of Acadiens during & immediately after the Seven Years' War (many of whom eventually ended up in Louisiana) and that's the single biggest reason as to why you will never hear of the Maritime provinces wanting to join...

That does line up with what I know about Xiang Yu. From what I've read, he seems to have been the more militarily capable but politically inept 'Mark Antony' figure in the Chu-Han Contention - apparently he was a 6'2" mega-badass who could inspire his men to ridiculous battlefield feats - to Liu...

WI: 'Xiang Yu wins the Chu-Han Contention and becomes the one to unite post-Qin China.'

That would be the Milesian option I described, since Miletus seems to have been the strongest of the Asian Greek cities in the Classical Period, famed for philosophers & colonists. It has the problem of being in the path of the Lydians (who historically subjugated it as well as all other Ionian...

Corinth was definitely one of the cities I was thinking of, other than Argos. What do you think a Corinthian hegemony might look like? IIRC the Corinthians' classical reputation was one of wealth, on account of their control over Isthmian commerce, and of luxurious degeneracy on account of their...

'AHC: Someone other than Athens, Sparta or Thebes becomes the dominant Ancient Greek polis.'

Kiev itself was already in decline, having been sacked by a coalition led by Vladimir-Suzdal almost 80 years before the Mongols put it to the torch and never recovering. Without the Mongols bulldozing the Rus' in general, I suspect you'd have the Russian lands be split along three well-balanced...

The Cuban Revolution and ensuing Communist regime, yes. A Cuban Revolution at some later point in time, probably not. My understanding of Batista is that he was pretty much an open crook, very deeply in league with the Mafia and American corporate interests, and completely lacking in legitimacy...

Well, having the American Revolution not happen or be crushed means a mega-British North America, which can be considered a sort of super-Canada (in the sense that 'Canada' = 'British-loyal dominion' anyway) I guess. However, assuming that isn't what you're after :P A British victory in the War...

A Majapahit that avoids its historical decline, perhaps? They were already the grandest, wealthiest and most powerful of the Southeast Asian thalassocracies (following in the footsteps of Srivijaya & Singhasari from centuries before) but happened to go into a death spiral of divisions &...

Day was chosen over Manning in the Alliance's first leadership election precisely because the other members thought he'd have more appeal to Ontario/Quebec than Manning. They were right, in the sense that 1 is an infinitely greater number than 0 - the Alliance took 2 seats in ON compared to the...