I'm going to be perfectly honest, this mostly just reads like you fixated on a couple words (race-mixing, in this case, which I admit might have been poorly chosen or articulated) and are having a bout of poor literacy in terms of understanding the post I was making, in which case I don't know...
You're... literally repeating what I said like I didn't just say it? It's literally in the quote you posted?
The point of bringing up Mesoamerica and the different natures of its colonization compared to the English North American was to showcase that there were material incentives that the...
I'll agree that it doesn't mean that much in a lot of ways.
On the other hand, native languages and cultural traditions have survived on a much larger scale in the former Spanish Empire, albeit not out of any consistently good or moral reasons. Nahuatl, Zapoteca and various other native nations...
I think people are vastly overestimating the loyalty of Britain to the natives.
Sure, there was some pressure to keep up with the US, but British management of Australia and New Zealand indigenous peoples where there was no geopolitical threat, as well as its policies in southern Africa where...
I'm not really romanticizing him. I specifically pointed out that since he wasn't exactly trained in diplomacy, administration, or statecraft, he was pretty constantly alienating people and that did not help him or his position.
I was more just writing it from the perspective of if he had...
South Korea was a military dictatorship and economic backwater for a very long time. We think it was more successful in hindsight given how crazy things got under Kim Jong Il in the North and how South Korea now is a stable democracy and has been for most of our life times, but that's mostly a...
Now I'm curious:
Is the idea just 5 relatively powerful hereditary dynasties that happen to be around when the Union of the Levant forms, or is it one per each major religion (1 Sunni, 1 Shi'ite, 1 Jewish, 1 Christian, 1 Druze)? Some combination of the two?
No problem, thanks for explaining. The author already clarified this, but I think my point is still relevant: those who are not in Natcorp territory are virulently opposed to the Natcorps, while those stuck behind the lines are keeping their heads down and not advertising their faith, in other...
Catholics having doctrinal fights over progress vs. traditions? When has that ever happened?
More seriously, it's probably a mix of factors that we in the modern US don't think about as much. Remember, this is well before most Hispanic permanent migration into the Southwest and indeed long...
I can't believe I wrote Spiegel instead of Siegel. Damn fingers, guess I'll leave that mistake in.
Anyway, and I'll just clarify this is pure speculation at best, the idea of a German Republican/Chestnut opposition (also with Irish and other white ethnic former Northern Democrat constituencies...
As far as German-Americans are concerned, I'll point out that a large part of the military leadership with ties to the German community were 1848ers, revolutionaries themselves. Numerous unionist communities IOTL and ITTL were German immigrants fighting for the Union and getting killed for it...
It's worth pointing out that a "Gaelic Union" doesn't necessarily need to be a case of an independent state, at least at first.
The original Norman conquerors of Ireland in the majority followed the Norse-Gael in the way of mostly assimilating to the language and culture of Ireland at first. It...
I get the feeling you don't realize this is a sequel to another ATL Civil War thread where the Civil War went rather differently, with things like the Union congress having to flee DC to Philadelphia, war-time measures resulting in seizure of large amounts of land and immediate redistribution...
I know approximately 5% of the history, vocabulary, and theological concepts of Jewish culture, and I'm still enjoying it. Has definitely taught me a few things and had me do a bit of research here and there to try and better understand the goings-on.
I've been enjoying it. I'm curious as to...
It's interesting to see the discussions about the Midwest's hardening identification with leftist politics that we theorized about. Obviously, it was already a thing between Olson and La Follette and socialist mayors and organized labor's strongholds in the then-Steel Belt and its northern...