But that really only developed with the Moral Majority politics of the 80s. Previously, the main pet issue of conservative protestants was segregation, not abortion. I don't know if you'd see that kind of realignment with abortion without Roe v. Wade putting Catholics on the defensive.
No Southern Strategy: The Political Ramifications of an Alternate 1964 Election
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Nvthe other hand, a lot of the Consercqtive Protesrants ITTL are kinda sorta outweighed by what you could call the Carterites - born-again, but not Jerry Falwell. So basically a weird melange of Religious Right and Religious Left.
I am expecting some sort of coalition between minor left wing parties.
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Liberty Union could have formed without Bernie. There were members more key to its formation that were also members long after Bernie left.
No. He is currently (since 1987) the California Lieutenant Governor, serving with Ed Clark. Both Republicans.
After Vietnam, he became a police officer and (has so far) kept out of electoral politics.
Freak Power are mainly a local party, they've ran a few candidates for Congressional offices but have either only done well based on the strength of pre-existing predecessor parties, such as the Raza Unida Party in Texas and other border state regions, as well as the odd minor left-liberal party such as the aforementioned Liberty Union. The thing is, it is really just a Colorado party that has expanded into other areas. Its main strength is in Colorado where its benefitted from the divisions between the 'establishment' and 'right-wing' parties (which had actually bandied together when HST ran for the Sheriffs position initially IRL) - so really Freak Power wins when it can get in via a split vote elsewhere and it really only does well when certain demographics are represented in states. Regarding the Liberal Party of New York, it is the fourth (or officially the fifth) party of the state. Before it you have the Democrats, GOP (who often run with the cross-endorsement of the Conservative Party, which they recently merged with to form the Conservative Republican Party of New York State) and the state branch of the NatCons, the National Party (they can't legally use the Conservative name after the party split between pro- and anti- Cohn factions in the early 1980s ITTL). Its basically either a component of victories for either the Democrats and Republicans, occasionally a successful party for local and state legislative offices, and a spoiler for the Democrats (most of the time) for Congressional and gubernatorial races.
Interesting fact about Dan White: he actually supported African-Americans when he was a police officer and firefighter, according to this SF Weekly article: https://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfr...ophobia/Content?oid=2166110&showFullText=true
Doesn't excuse what he did IOTL, but it is an interesting look at his life before his crimes (ironically, if he had been convicted of first-degree murder in Milk or Moscone's deaths, he would have been eligible for the death penalty under a law he himself had supported, but that Milk and Moscone had opposed)…
ObWI: White also kills Dianne Feinstein (maybe he adds her to his enemies list; she was the head of the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco)?
Doesn't excuse what he did IOTL, but it is an interesting look at his life before his crimes (ironically, if he had been convicted of first-degree murder in Milk or Moscone's deaths, he would have been eligible for the death penalty under a law he himself had supported, but that Milk and Moscone had opposed)…
ObWI: White also kills Dianne Feinstein (maybe he adds her to his enemies list; she was the head of the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco)?
Though the thing with Feinstein is that she obviously didn't stab White in the back (his perception) like Milk did. Like the article says, the killingvwasn't so much a gay-killing and more standard San Francisco procedure taken waaaay too far.
I wonder what the 1984 map looks like. I'd like to see the Republican victory version for comparison