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* StopBeingStereotypical: Why [[spoiler: Trent Lott's campaign for Governor of Mississippi falls apart]]. Seeing [[spoiler: Charles Evers gain the polls]], he launches ads so racist [[spoiler: they offend Mississippians, especially when he claims the people of the state would riot if a black man is elected governor]].

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* StopBeingStereotypical: Why [[spoiler: Trent Lott's campaign for Governor of Mississippi falls apart]]. Seeing [[spoiler: Charles Evers gain surging in the polls]], he launches ads so racist [[spoiler: they offend Mississippians, especially when he claims the people of the state would riot if a black man is elected governor]].
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'''No Southern Strategy: The Ramifications of An Alternate 1964 Election''' is an ongoing {{Alternate History}} timeline written by Nofix and Gonzo, on the website Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom. Told primarily in the form of alternate Wikipedia infoboxes, the timeline focuses on the effects leading from an alternate 1964 election where the Dixiecrats split to form a separate ticket, depriving Barry Goldwater of any electoral votes and giving UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson an even larger landslide than in our timeline.

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'''No Southern Strategy: The Ramifications of An Alternate 1964 Election''' is an ongoing {{Alternate History}} timeline written by Nofix and Gonzo, on the website Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom. Told primarily in the form of alternate Wikipedia infoboxes, the timeline focuses on the effects leading from an alternate 1964 election where the Dixiecrats split to form a separate ticket, depriving Barry Goldwater UsefulNotes/BarryGoldwater of any electoral votes and giving UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson an even larger landslide than in our timeline.
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* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: Charles Evers, a liberal African American civil rights activist, becoming the governor of one of the most conservative and reactionary state in America. ]]

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* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: Charles Evers, a liberal African American civil rights activist, becoming the governor of one of the most conservative and reactionary state states in America. ]]
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The timeline can be found [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/no-southern-strategy-the-political-ramifications-of-an-alternate-1964-election.356134// here]]. As of mid-2018, the timeline has been brought up to the early 1990s, and the authors are busy posting updates on how individual countries have fared in the quarter-century-plus of altered history (carefully writing their entries not to give spoilers on other countries).

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The timeline can be found [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/no-southern-strategy-the-political-ramifications-of-an-alternate-1964-election.356134// here]]. As of mid-2018, early 2019, the timeline has been brought up to the early 1990s, and the authors are busy posting updates on how individual countries have fared in the quarter-century-plus of altered history (carefully writing their entries so as not to give spoilers on other countries).
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* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: Charles Evers, a liberal African American civil rights activist, becoming the governor one of the most conservative and reactionary states in America]].

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* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: Charles Evers, a liberal African American civil rights activist, becoming the governor of one of the most conservative and reactionary states state in America]]. America. ]]



** [[spoiler: Roger MacBride is President Iron]] because of his strong libertarian view points and [[spoiler: and President Target after nearly being assassinated by the Manson family]].

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** [[spoiler: Roger MacBride [=Roger MacBride=] is President Iron]] because of his strong libertarian view points and [[spoiler: and President Target after nearly being assassinated by the Manson family]].



** We have Presidents Lyndon Johnson in 1964 (D), [[spoiler: Hubert Humphrey in 1968 (D), Henry Howell in 1973 (D), Roger MacBride in 1976 (R), Roy Cohn in 1981 (R), and Fox McKeithen in 1988 (D)]].
** George H.W. Bush serves as President Mac Bride's Secretary of State.

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** We have Presidents Lyndon Johnson in 1964 (D), [[spoiler: Hubert Humphrey in 1968 (D), Henry Howell in 1973 (D), Roger MacBride [=MacBride=] in 1976 (R), Roy Cohn in 1981 (R), and Fox McKeithen [=McKeithen=] in 1988 (D)]].
** George H.W. Bush serves as President Mac Bride's [=MacBride's=] Secretary of State.



** John Mc Cain becomes Governor of Arizona.

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** John Mc Cain [=McCain=] becomes Governor of Arizona.



** Joe Biden serves as [[spoiler: President McKeithen's National Security Advisor]].

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** Joe Biden serves as [[spoiler: President McKeithen's [=McKeithen's=] National Security Advisor]].



** Eugene Mc Carthy is elected Governor of Minnesota [[spoiler: as a Republican]].

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** Eugene Mc Carthy [=McCarthy=] is elected Governor of Minnesota [[spoiler: as a Republican]].



* SlidingScaleOfAlternateHistoryPlausibility: Very much on the Type I side. Unlike some works of alternate history, which employ a narrative style, have a clear historical objective that they're building toward, or are aggressively dystopian, NSS is written in an encyclopedic style whose purpose is simply to give a highly believable and realistic account of divergent trends and developments in world politics in the mid-to-late 20th century.

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* ShoutOut: There are a few to Literature/FearLoathingAndGumboOnTheCampaignTrailSeventyTwo peppered throughout.
** In 1988, [[spoiler:W. Fox [=McKeithen=]]] is elected President of the United States. This has been confirmed as partly an homage to ''Gumbo'', in which [[spoiler:John J. [=McKeithen=] (W. Fox's father)]] plays a central role as a [[spoiler:presidential candidate]].
**As in ''Gumbo'', Howard Hughes founds a right-wing media network called the Hughes Network. And, as in Gumbo, one of the TV programs on this network is a talk show hosted by a hard-right figure (here it's Joseph Sobran; in Gumbo it's [[spoiler:Spiro Agnew]]) of which the title is "[Presenter's name] On Point".
* SlidingScaleOfAlternateHistoryPlausibility: Very much on the Type I side. Unlike some works of alternate history, which employ a narrative style, have a clear build toward an explicit historical objective that they're building toward, objective, or are aggressively dystopian, NSS is written in an encyclopedic style whose purpose is simply to give a highly believable and realistic account of divergent trends and developments in world politics in the mid-to-late 20th century.

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