For the most part, no Canadian-American enclaves were established in US cities after the end of the Second Great War.
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TL-191: After the End
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For the most part, no Canadian-American enclaves were established in US cities after the end of the Second Great War.
I may add threadmarks for the main ATL, but I don’t have immediate plans to do so.
Why are musicals and theatrical productions so much more popular compared to OTL?
Probably American ones but not ideas what name they would use. And pretty surely Germany has still autobahns. Too useful to be butterflied away.
After the end of the Second Great War, the German Empire began an extensive program of highway construction, along with the expansion and modernization of the empire’s railways and airports.
The German Empire also cooperated with the Austro-Hungarian Empire to improve the highway, rail, and air routes between the two countries.
The German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire also cooperated on improving their respective highway, rail, and air routes with their allies in Eastern Europe. This was part of a wider effort by the Germans and Austro-Hungarians to assist in the reconstruction of the region after the devastation of the Second Great War.
The postwar German and Austro-Hungarian rebuilding and expansion of transportation infrastructure was concurrent with a similar program to improve and expand highway, rail, and air routes in the United States, as well as in the other countries of North America, by the administrations of Thomas Dewey and Harry Truman.
The postwar German, Austro-Hungarian, and US programs to improve and expand transportation infrastructure was were also related to postwar programs in all three countries to reform and rebuild their respective militaries. This was a legacy of all three countries having been subject to foreign invasion in the Second Great War.
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In the North OTL there was close to a conspiracy theory about the "slave power" in the US and those particular presidents being beholden to it. In a timeline where a slave owning CSA successfully split up the USA such a theory is probably more popular and perhaps a given.
Does the US have 79 stars on its flag or did they stop adding them at a certain point? Because I feel like it would've been pretty cumbersome to have to switch out the flag every couple years during the 20th century whenever a new state was added.
Was the Eiffel Tower rebuilt after it was destroyed during the superbombing of Paris?
The Eiffel Tower was eventually rebuilt after the end of the Second Great War.
Migrants from the Midsouth did not become the majority in any of the cities where they moved to in large numbers.
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There was more of a culture shock to the new migrants in some US cities than in others.
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The film Enemy Ours was directed by Roy Sawyer and released in 1984. Sawyer moved from New Orleans to New York City to attend film school in the early 1980s and never returned. The plot of Enemy Ours is of a con artist and fixer from Louisiana who tries to build his personal fortune in New York City, only to fall after managing to make an enemy out of everyone who he meets. The plot of Enemy Ours is analogous to the film noir Night and City by Jules Dassin, from 1950 in our world.
The film Tupelo’s Way was directed by Shad Hayes and released in 1992. Hayes moved to New York City from Jackson, Mississippi to attend film school in the late 1980s and never returned. The plot of Tupelo’s Way is of a man from Mississippi moving to New York City and failing to find a job, before eventually going insane from desperation and loneliness. For an idea of the plot to Tupelo’s Way, imagine if the novel A Confederacy of Dunces from our world had been an unremitting tragedy, instead of a comedy.
The film Caffeinated was written and directed by Lambert Perkins and released in 1995. Perkins was born in Montgomery, Alabama, and later moved to Chicago, Illinois. The plot of Caffeinated is of a man racing around Chicago in the course of a day while trying to put together a family reunion and World Bowl viewing party, reconcile with his ex-wife, pay off half a dozen debts, and close a drug deal with someone from a Dixie Mafia outfit. The plot of Caffeinated is more or less an extended version of a famous sequence from the film Goodfellas, from 1990 in our world.
The film North Orleans was directed by Annabelle Marchbanks and released in 2001. Marchbanks was the daughter of migrants from Georgia who had settled in the Dixieland enclave in Boston that came to be known as Far North. The title of North Orleans is also the name of the film’s setting, of a fictional version of the Far North enclave. The plot of North Orleans concerns the people of the fictional North Orleans enclave who transform from being friends and neighbors with each other into bitter enemies when a rumor spreads that there is a buried treasure hidden somewhere in the enclave. For an idea of the plot of North Orleans, imagine a more sinister version of the film It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, from 1963 in our world.
The film Everglade Cafe was directed by Cyrus Abernathy and released in 2012. Abernathy was the son of migrants from Kentucky who had settled in the Dixieland enclave in Detroit that came to be known as Iron Briar. The title of Everglade Cafe is also that of the film’s setting, a fictional all-you-can-eat restaurant in a fictional Dixieland enclave based heavily on the Iron Briar enclave. The plot concerns a man who seeks to eat in peace while his friends try to drag him into different insane schemes, before all of these schemes are resolved in the Everglade Cafe, in one way or another. For an idea of the plot of Everglade Cafe, imagine if the film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, from 1998 in our world, or the film Snatch, from 2000 in our world, had been told in the style of the OTL play Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
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I don’t have the names of any popular bands from the different Dixielands in TTL.
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Outside of the police targeting actual criminal suspects, such as the members of different Roundhead gangs or Dixie Mafia outfits, the police in most US cities don’t really focus attention on Dixieland enclaves. However, there is a popular fear of the police in many of these enclaves throughout the late 20th Century and early 21st Century.
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English and German are among the most widely spoken languages around the world by 2023.
How many people in hispanphone, francophone, and Japanesephone? states now speak English, and how many speak English as first language.