Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10975360-20140421002559/@comment-10975360-20140424133936

yh, i think after the lusitania sinking, so late 1915, and then a slightly earlier end to the war, maybe spring 1918

a temporary three party system, but northern liberal democrats would flock to the progressives, the unions too because of their support for a minimum wage, the republicans would be squeezed into insignificance as a major party after losing their progressive wing, definatly representation in congress until the mid 1930's, but after that they would effectivly be absorbed into the democrats, which would remain a party of the right

really interesting though, having the democrats as the conservative party going into the 20th century, and the progressives as the centre-left party, the dems would be in a semi-permanent minority through most of the 20th century, with a progressive coalition of urban city bosses, labor unions, northern working and middle classes, and midwestern farmers being larger than the democratic conservative coalition of the south, and northern business