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There's Guam and the US Virgin IslandsLeast implausible (yes I know) 51st+ state that isn't Puerto Rico or DC and wouldn't made by splitting an existing state?
NewfoundlandLeast implausible (yes I know) 51st+ state that isn't Puerto Rico or DC and wouldn't made by splitting an existing state?
More of an Iceland as the 51st state kind of guy myself. We should have never given it back.Newfoundland
Another couple ideas coming to mind, in order of (still-dubious) plausibility:Least implausible (yes I know) 51st+ state that isn't Puerto Rico or DC and wouldn't made by splitting an existing state?
I mentioned on the Sequoyah thread that apparently William Howard Taft supported it from a Legal standpoint, so a scenario where McKinley isn’t shot and Taft becomes the Republican candidate following a brokered convention would likely provide an Avenue for Sequoyah to gain support (unlikely Teddy who was just really racist against native Americans and thought there own state was bad).Sequoyah in 1905-07, if that had somehow gotten past Congress?
Too thinly populated- even if you add the Northern Mariana Islands to Guam you're looking at 250K, and USVI is even smaller.There's Guam and the US Virgin Islands
What if the United States had taken all of the Mariana Islands in the Spanish-American War in 1898? I posted a thread about that, https://forum.sealionpress.co.uk/in...tates-takes-all-of-the-marianas-in-1898.5980/. In that scenario, the Northern Mariana Islands would probably be more populous.Too thinly populated- even if you add the Northern Mariana Islands to Guam you're looking at 250K, and USVI is even smaller.
I mean, I don't really see why they would end up being much more populous if at all under sustained US administration. They're still going to be economically marginal islands with a limited timeframe of military utility.What if the United States had taken all of the Mariana Islands in the Spanish-American War in 1898? I posted a thread about that, https://forum.sealionpress.co.uk/in...tates-takes-all-of-the-marianas-in-1898.5980/. In that scenario, the Northern Mariana Islands would probably be more populous.
The Mariana Islands could be used for sugar plantations like they were under Japanese rule. As @Jackson Lennock said, a lot of the Japanese migrants to Saipan and Tinian would probably still have went as there was significant Japanese immigration to Hawaii.I mean, I don't really see why they would end up being much more populous if at all under sustained US administration. They're still going to be economically marginal islands with a limited timeframe of military utility.
You're still talking small numbers in both of these cases, and you're subtracting out OTL's cheap labor and lax immigration standards due to Commonwealth status, so it could even be a wash. The Marianas are not going to be densely populated with American conquest in 1898.The Mariana Islands could be used for sugar plantations like they were under Japanese rule. As @Jackson Lennock said, a lot of the Japanese migrants to Saipan and Tinian would probably still have went as there was significant Japanese immigration to Hawaii.
Are there any Finnish here that I could ask questions about Nokia?
Can I ask you a question about Nokia in the 1990s?I'm Finnish adjacent (mom is Finnish, my brother's lived there off and on for a few years in total). Ask away.
Can I ask you a question about Nokia in the 1990s?
I am doing a variety show type of timeline, with four (largely developed) political (with the exclusion of a POD related to Trump, that is for now) and two cultural changes (extra chapters, as I like to call them)
One of the cultural changes I want is to keep Nokia in the computer sector.
But, from the sources I find, it seems to be hard without getting rid of or changing the mind of, Simo Vuorilehto, CEO at the time, who, from what I understand, started Nokia's journey to becoming the telecommunication giant of Finland, by selling off non-telephone-related sectors.
Yet, from all the sales, the sale of the computer department seems to not only make the shares of the company crash (I am exaggerating with the word "crash", as I am unable to find a better word) due to investors thinking the company was in financial trouble, also cost him his job.
So, what could make the computers of Nokia survive?
Thanks!I'll ask around - keep watching this space.