Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10975360-20140421002559/@comment-10975360-20140426101425

wallace only lost the nomination because of the objections of the southern wing of the democratic party, he was strongly backed by the labour movement and liberal northern democrats, the progressive party would be locked out of the south as the republicans were otl, therefore southern votes will be unecessary and he would be renominated. He had roosevelts personal support.

politically ike was a moderate, his main motivation for coming out as a republican otl was because he disagreed with truman in his second term, he would doubtless have the same view of a wallace presidency

like i said before, the democratic party would still dominate southern politics, Johnson would still be a democrat, albeit a relativly liberal one, humphrey would reinforce the progressivism of a 1960 Progressive ticket, kennedy was a moderate - to - liberal democrat

Nixon would be a dem, but still a senator, ike wouldnt choose him as his veep in 1952 as california would be a safe progressive state, and he would need a southerner on the ticket, maybe sparkman or alben barkley. Not having been vice president nixon would not be the frontrunner going into 1968, and reagan would have been a conservative governor of what had been a very progressive state, Reagan would have won the '68 nomination and run on similar theemes as nixon (law and order, silent majority, etc)