Nothing quite that formal but people will certainly get that idea on several occasions throughout the 20sPOSSIBLE IDEA FOR DEALING WITH DEMOGRAPHICS: Maybe some political establishment in the south convinces the White populace that they will be 'outnumbered' by Blacks or something. Could make the census less of a mess by 1930.
Yes. Football will be much stronger in East Asia in general, becoming something of the fourth quadrant of the sport alongside Europe, South America, and the Big Two of USA/Mexico in North America (yes, this does mean that African football is a touch or two weaker than IOTL)A film like Downfall ITTL based on this would be great! The memes it would generate alone
Can we expect a China that is much stronger on the world stage of Football ITTL? its always blown my mind how much of a failure the Chinese Governments attempts at building their football has been.
More to come on Romania, I'll leave it at that.Economics in the Western Hemisphere thought...
The six primary nations in the war (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, CSA, Mexico and USA) were six of the seven largest economies in the Western hemisphere (Canada being the seventh). I know the CSA falls *hard*, but I'm not sure whether it can fall out of the top 7. If it can, who would it fall behind? The only possibilities in my mind are Venezuela, Colombia and the postwar restored RoT, but given that the RoT will have at least *some* war damage and the author has said that Colombia ends up with French related conservatives taking Panama out of Colombia, that indicates that Colombia is in for some not happy times. So it boils down to whether Venezuela will gain enough from being aligned with (and an oil source for?) victorious Germany. That of course will be affected by the alignment of Romania post CEW...
I'd say the CSA is still Top 7, though. Even at this point in time it has considerable resource and demographic advantages over Venezuela/Colombia and don't discount the biased appeal of investing in a culturally more "European" place for European investors than Bogota or Caracas, at least initially.
Vardaman has sort of two legacies - anti-planter populism, and hardcore white supremacy. People can read into him whatever they like postwar as a result (Huey Long probably leans more towards the former, for instance)Its been stated that Vardman lost a son to the war - though one could happily butterfly his life a bit and say he has more than one son to carry on his legacy in the ATL - though, considering he'sthe one left holding the bag when the war inevitably ends (or manages to exit stage left prior to that point, but still having been tarnished by leading the Confederacy during the darkest days of the war and failing), I'm not sure how much of a legacy he's going to have. I could see the Red Scarves outliving him and honoring his memory (after all, Vardaman would have been able to save the Confederacy if he hadn't been stabed in the back by the planter class who didn't want to give more to save the nation!) and propping up some relative as a successor.