Out of the Shadow

[LoneStarDem]

I'm assuming that segregation is dismantled forever in the South under the HHH Presidency ?

[LoneStarDem]

YIKES. The Southern states just don't get it: I hope we don't see some of these states not pulling a Trujillo in exterminating minorities in terms of other extreme methods of suppression.

I'm going to assume Briscoe runs for the TX Governor's Mansion in 1974 for the first 4-year term ? I feel bad for the guy.

[LoneStarDem]

I wonder what happens to L. Douglas Wilder in this TL ?

[LoneStarDem]

Keep me updated if minorities get their full constitutional rights of changing the South's repressive tactics in regards to voting, running for political office, etc.

[LoneStarDem]

I'm assuming they're still counting votes in the Midwest ?

[LoneStarDem]

Interested to see what the Exit Polls looked like determining how Americans voted including minorities, women, others, etc.,

[LoneStarDem]

November 2, 1976
9:00 PM

“Welcome back to CBS News coverage of the 1976 elections, I’m Walter Cronkite. Seeing as the clock has just struck 9 on the eastern seaboard, ten more states have just closed their polls, along with portions of four others.

“Arizona has cast its ballots for John Lindsay, though he is a bad fit for the conservative state and is under-performing expectations. Lindsay has won that state by a little more than five points. Louisiana has overwhelmingly voted for Henry M. Jackson, which puts him over the 200 electoral vote mark. We can also project that both Michigan and Minnesota will vote for Jackson, no surprise due to his Manufacturing Belt union appeal. John Lindsay will win the state of Nebraska. Vice President Jackson has won the state of Wisconsin. Finally, Lindsay has carried the very Republican state of Wyoming.

“Oh, standby… I’ve been informed of three more calls we can make at this hour: John Lindsay has narrowly won Delaware, while at the same time, Vice President Jackson has won South Dakota and her four electoral votes. And the last call is that Maine’s second congressional district has narrowly voted for John Lindsay.

“Colorado is too early to call. Connecticut is too close to call. Illinois is too close to call. Kansas is too close to call. New Jersey is too close to call. New Mexico is too early to call. New York is too close to call. North Dakota is too close to call. Pennsylvania is too close to call. Virginia is too close to call.”

JACKSON/PEDEN: 54%, 247 EVS
LINDSAY/RUCKELSHAUS: 45%, 49 EVS
OTHERS: 1%, 0 EVS
TOO CLOSE/EARLY TO CALL: 152 EVS
POLLS OPEN: 90 EVS
“We can make two projections about the future control of Congress. First, the Democratic party has won at least 227 seats, well above the 218 needed for a majority in the House of Representatives. Depending on how other races fall, Democrats should prepared for, at best, a gain of three seats, or, in their worst case scenario, a net loss of no more than twenty-five seats. Regardless, Democrats will retain their control of the House of Representatives.

“For the other projection, we can call the Minnesota Senate race for the incumbent Walter Mondale, and with that, Democrats will retain control of the US Senate for at least another two years. We can also call that Bella Abzug has beaten William F. Buckley in the New York Senate race; like New York’s other Senator, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug is an outspoken feminist progressive activist and Congresswoman. Quentin Burdick has won a landslide reelection in North Dakota. William Proxmire of Wisconsin has also won a landslide reelection. In some good news for the GOP, Malcolm Wallop has ousted Wyoming Senator Gale McGee, beating the Democrat by a wide margin and securing Republicans their sixth flip of the night.”

Democrats: 54 seats ( 15)
Republicans: 33 seats ( 2)

“CBS can make the projection that Governor Arthur Link has won another term as Governor of North Dakota. In addition, we can also predict that James Holshouser, a Republican, will win the North Carolina gubernatorial election.

Democrats: 32 (
Republicans: 14 ( 4)

Who was elected NC Governor in 1972 from this TL ?

[LoneStarDem]

Meanwhile in several Southern states, the Old Guard is hell-bent on preventing & blocking change by using discriminatory tactics, diluting voting to prevent minorities, the elderly, etc., from participating in a free democratic process, racially-charged rhetoric.

[LoneStarDem]

How does Jackson do so well in the South?

Good question since it's been awhile since they had a Southerner in the White House.

[LoneStarDem]

I'm assuming the Dems have a supermajority on the US State Governorships.

[LoneStarDem]

Interested to see if Scoop wins by double digits.

[LoneStarDem]

This TL is getting juicy.

[LoneStarDem]

This is Rosellini's 4th term as WA St Governor ?

[LoneStarDem]

Interesting to see what the transition will look like.

[LoneStarDem]

On Raul H. Castro: I'm assuming that since he's elected to the United States Senate in 1976, AZ Secretary of State Wesley Bolin (D) would ascend to the Governorship in this TL ?

PS: Looking forward to seeing the opening of the HHH Presidential Center in this TL.

[LoneStarDem]

Keeping my fingers crossed Mecham gets impeached & removed from office in AZ.

[LoneStarDem]

This is likely the last time the East Front of the US Capitol will hold Presidential Inaugurations, considering in 1981, it was moved to the West Front (which was the right thing to do).