User blog comment:Historygeek1/Continuation of Southern Victory/@comment-173.16.23.213-20140331164522/@comment-21519-20140331193439

A second round of disunion? Well that would be an odd direction for a series that had previously been about the long buildup to reunification to take.

Not sure why you think the Socialists are in the west, either. They've had two eastern presidents (Sinclair and Smith) and two western presidents (Blackford and LaFollette). Flora Hamburger (New York), Eugene Debs (Indiana), Seymour Stedman (originally of Connecticut), Joe Guffey (Pennsylvania), Clarence Cannon (Missouri), George Norris (Nebraska), and Jim Curley (Massachusetts).

Also, by the end of IatD, their socialist tendencies are badly overstated. They presided over the Roaring 20s, which is hard to imagine. Their attempt at a New Deal was weak. In GWII their economic reforms didn't get much press, but I got the distinct impression that by then they were no more socialist than the UK's Labour Party was under Blair and Brown--in other words, not very. Nor are there really any voices trying to get the party back to their radical roots.