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Considering this is around the time of the nadir of race relations in the US (1915 being a banner year with the revival of the KKK at Stone Mountain, complete with cross-burning, and the release of DW Griffith's The Birth of a Nation), how would African-Americans fare during this transition...

Hmm, in that case - IIRC there was a proposal floated a while back that would have used STV for urban constituencies and IRV (or AV, since This Is Britain (TM/MC)) everywhere else. Is that that same Commons bill, or am I thinking of a different bill? Another possibility that could have been...

Iran was going to implode during the 1970s and the Shah was an easy target for the entire regime, in part because of his megalomania and also because of his throttling of his country's democratic development to benefit his autocratic regime. Not to mention that all that oil boom didn't really...

Hmm, if would be interesting to make the differences between the U.P. and the rest of Michigan more apparent than OTL. Of course New Hampshire and Maine would have their own separate arrangements (set earlier, Massachusetts and later the independent state of Maine would have far more extensive...

For a southern border, it's easier to specify the Great Lakes and the Detroit and St. Lawrence Rivers as boundaries. Natural features are easy to use as boundaries in this case; whether or not what is now Michigan is also included is a different story (probably not, if the Detroit River is used...

Perhaps, but given that there was already quite a bit of bad blood between the two well before 1763, it would be equally likely that they'd also like independence. After all, what little sympathy there was amidst all the neutrality should be noted.

Well, if it became independent, it would be called Canada - that's what the revolutionaries addressed it as, that's their preferred name, so Canada it is. Outside of that, having it hold onto territory far beyond the Great Lakes - although essential for maintaining the fur economy - is probably...

Which, in turn, was ultimately a Chinese airline whose former callsign spawned a subsidiary of China Airlines (which, despite its name, is a Taiwanese company) due to, umm, delicate matters. As for the OP with more Air Afrique-like services - I can't help but thinking that similar efforts could...

K, so I'm at work and can't give the full response I think it deserves until later, let's say Bennett didn't need to-do much because the existing economic model was working fine for Canada in the 1920s (hence, in the grand Canadian tradition of needlessly comparing themselves to the neighbor to...

Considering the guy who used Ouija boards to summon the dead Laurier to advise him will most definitely become PM because Bennett (and Taschereau, incidentally, who ran the province of Québec along similar lines) was that awful with his economic policies, yes there is a possibility that...

Enjoy your trip in Canada, @David Flin !

The issue crept up again just now when I logged in from my phone.

Outside of the obvious NEC, Midwest, and California bits (and anything further is outright ASB), what would be most helpful here in this early stage is to drop the whole reticence towards foreign systems, and instead choose to learn from them. While the US isn't going to spend money to develop...

That is strange. On my Windows 10 PC, I can control my language settings on my keyboard by adding more drivers to it, and hence more spellcheck options (should I desire). It shows up as some sort of IME thing (red box in screenshot). Which, when I blow it up in detail, looks like: So, in...

I'll do a bit of a cheat, but only to make a point here. You know that whole Belavezha Accords thing between Yeltsin, Shushchevich, and Kravchuk that declared the dissolution of the Soviet Union and its replacement with the CIS? Well, at least until Yeltsin had the idea to extend the CIS to the...

Not sure that would happen, because Cyprus is not Malta - nor should Cyprus fit into a box precast by the unique Maltese experience. In that case, there's really nothing one could do to make that work. The best one could hope for is making independence more gradual and less acrimonious, which...

It wasn't just that - until WW1, Cyprus was still technically part of the Ottoman Empire (hence why it was a British protectorate until the Ottoman Empire completely fell apart, hence becoming a straight-up colony), so at that point in time the pragmatic solution was to teach Turkish Cypriots...

Greece and Albania are probably going to have as tense a relationship as Greece and Turkey IOTL, mainly over Northern Epirus. How that crisis gets resolved would determine how things go (hopefully not as another Cyprus).

Hmm, there is a scenario for Cове́тская Великобрита́ния that I'm considering, possibly as a separate TL project, where something like this eventually becomes a survival strategy for a UK government-in-exile after some sort of Imperial Federation-like arrangement takes place. (Although, outside...

Hmm, a Spanish-American War in the 1870s where Spain wins, - In this case, Joan Prim would probably have his star on the rise, even under Amadeo and the (OTL First) Spanish Republic. The better idea, though, is to have Prim take his experience as Governor of Puerto Rico to heart and advocate...