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**Mirroring [[The Korean War]], China is split between North and South, albeit with Manchukuo still separate as a more integrated section of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
**Mirroring [[The Korean War]], China is split between North and South, albeit with Manchukuo still separate as a more integrated section of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
**The [https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-386#post-19702003 Long Memorial], erected in Washington DC after Huey's death, is a grander version of the statue and tombstone that exist in real life just outside the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge.
**The [https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-386#post-19702003 Long Memorial], erected in Washington DC after Huey's death, is a grander version of the statue and tombstone that exist in real life just outside the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge.
**Namibia, in addition to being [[The Remnant]] of Nazi Germany, could described as a more stable yet no less deranged version of North Korea.
* [[Balkanize Me]]: China and India remain divided well after the 1940s. The demoralization and subsequent end of the British monarchy, meanwhile, contributes to Canada splintering apart by the 1950s.
* [[Balkanize Me]]: China and India remain divided well after the 1940s, while the former Soviet Union's still partitioned into different Russian successor states (the largest being a Japanese puppet). The demoralization and subsequent end of the British monarchy, meanwhile, contributes to Canada splintering apart by the 1950s.
*[[Church of Happyology]]: Vulcanism, which is essentially a combination of Scientology, ''[[Star Trek]]'' and the Charles Manson cult. This is due to being founded by Gene Roddenberry.
*[[Church of Happyology]]: Vulcanism, which is essentially a combination of Scientology, ''[[Star Trek]]'' and the Charles Manson cult. This is due to being founded by Gene Roddenberry.
*[[Day of the Jackboot]]: Deconstructed. American isolationism under Long and a rather lucky streak contributes to the Nazis succeeding in securing their Thousand Year Reich by 1940...if only temporarily. A combination of growing tensions with former allies like Mussolini, insurgencies in the Reichskommissariats, economic troubles in converting to peacetime and rising power plays among the upper echelons, to name a few, bring Germany to the brink. Hitler's death in 1955 would spark a brief civil war, which saw the Wehrmacht leadership usurping power and an aging Erwin Rommel laying the groundwork for the restoration of Hohenzollern rule.
*[[Day of the Jackboot]]: Deconstructed. American isolationism under Long and a rather lucky streak contributes to the Nazis succeeding in securing their Thousand Year Reich by 1940...if only temporarily. A combination of growing tensions with former allies like Mussolini, insurgencies in the Reichskommissariats, economic troubles in converting to peacetime and rising power plays among the upper echelons, to name a few, bring Germany to the brink. Hitler's death in 1955 would spark a brief civil war, which saw the Wehrmacht leadership usurping power and an aging Erwin Rommel laying the groundwork for the restoration of Hohenzollern rule.
*[[Different World, Different Movies]]:
*[[Different World, Different Movies]]:
**In addition to Ronald Reagan never pursuing politics as in OTL, he becomes better known for comedy than Westerns.
**In addition to Ronald Reagan never pursuing politics as in OTL, he becomes renowned as a comedy actor.
**Huey Long's old ''Louisiana Progress'' newspaper survives and eventually becomes an online news site known as ''The American Progress''.
**Huey Long's old ''Louisiana Progress'' newspaper survives and eventually becomes an online news site known as ''The American Progress''.
*[[For Want of a Nail]]: Huey Long escaping death by assassination in 1936 leads to a significantly changed world, with "Longism" shaping American politics for generations to come.
*[[For Want of a Nail]]: Huey Long escaping death by assassination in 1936 leads to a significantly changed world, with "Longism" shaping American politics for generations to come.
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**John F. Kennedy, though his father Joseph Kennedy Sr. becomes President after Long, never enters politics. Instead, he finds success as a professional historian, dying quietly in 1999.
**John F. Kennedy, though his father Joseph Kennedy Sr. becomes President after Long, never enters politics. Instead, he finds success as a professional historian, dying quietly in 1999.
**Billy Graham becomes President in the late 1960s as a Democrat and committed Longist, overseeing the expansion of the American welfare state and greater racial equality.
**Billy Graham becomes President in the late 1960s as a Democrat and committed Longist, overseeing the expansion of the American welfare state and greater racial equality.
**By the present day, a man heavily implied to be Richard Dawkins is slated to be a leading candidate for becoming the next Prime Minister of Rhodesia.
* [[Rightful King Returns]]:
* [[Rightful King Returns]]:
** Prince Louis Ferdinand of the House of Hohenzollern is welcomed back by Rommel and the Wehrmacht leadership, leading to the restoration of [[Imperial Germany]].
** Prince Louis Ferdinand of the House of Hohenzollern is welcomed back by Rommel and the Wehrmacht leadership, leading to the restoration of [[Imperial Germany]].
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