Hmmmm, how about Thomas Turtledove?
Thomas Turtledove, private eye for hire...
Hmmmm, how about Thomas Turtledove?
The Federal Government moved its operations back to Washington, D.C. during the Dewey and Truman administrations, both to symbolize the reunion of the United States and due to the devastation suffered by Philadelphia at the end of the Second Great War.
I think there had been a reference to not caring for slave owners like Washington and Jefferson, instead preferring Hamilton and Adams.This is like an old theory of mine I had with my brother once upon a time - since it never stopped being the official capital, Washington would be seen as an excellent place to hold government business in again due to what you said about symbolizing reunion. Your mentioning of Philly is something I never made a connection with though, so good call on bucking the concept up with it.
Indeed, I think anything associated with the name Washington (the man, that is) will become even more revered than OTL due to him successfully uniting north and south in early American history and a perfect symbol of union at its best.
Will American history try to empathize any common connections the entire countries they have in their fold (Canada, CSA, Mormons, West Indies, etc)? I keep imagining a shared English-speaking, common-law heritage or something ('to New England or the Chesapeake or Barbados, our ancestors went for freedom and prosperity in their own ways, even after the Revolution some kept going westwards like the onetime Loyalists and Mormons...').
This is like an old theory of mine I had with my brother once upon a time - since it never stopped being the official capital, Washington would be seen as an excellent place to hold government business in again due to what you said about symbolizing reunion. Your mentioning of Philly is something I never made a connection with though, so good call on bucking the concept up with it.
Indeed, I think anything associated with the name Washington (the man, that is) will become even more revered than OTL due to him successfully uniting north and south in early American history and a perfect symbol of union at its best.
Will American history try to empathize any common connections the entire countries they have in their fold (Canada, CSA, Mormons, West Indies, etc)? I keep imagining a shared English-speaking, common-law heritage or something ('to New England or the Chesapeake or Barbados, our ancestors went for freedom and prosperity in their own ways, even after the Revolution some kept going westwards like the onetime Loyalists and Mormons...').
I think there had been a reference to not caring for slave owners like Washington and Jefferson, instead preferring Hamilton and Adams.
Not Jefferson. Consider the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions.In the pre-Second Great War years, yes. But post-SGW, Washington and Jefferson would be used as symbols of of a reunited nation.
Not Jefferson. Consider the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions.
When is the next update?
He said sometime in December, good sir.
When I reread the wikia today and started counting states, I'm glad I also read this post. Trying to figure out how to make a 74-star flag on MS Paint when the West Pacific Territories will likely make this a 77-star flag by the end of the series seems a bit too irritating for a Saturday night I'd rather spend out in town. I'm thinking something like nine horizontal rows of stars, with the top and bottom being nine stars wide, and the middle seven rows being eight stars wide for the current TL flag, and something like a 9-8-9-8-9-8-9-8-9 pattern in a configuration akin the the OTL-present day. If anyone wants to rip this and add stars (and/or drop in the whichever flag thread is the current one,) feel free. I'm just not motivated at the moment.
Why not 7 x 11?
I don't think it's terrible, though. Lines up nicely with the stripes to the right. Maybe make the stars a little smaller so it doesn't look so crowded.
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Damn! I never thought about using the seven stripes up top for something like this! Awesome how it came out, but it's up to David how to deal with the newly civilianized West Pacific Islands to get to 77. I assume in the case of the current TL you'd have the even lines (white stripes,) staggered to get to the TTL-current 74? Props!
I wonder what the state flags in the TL look like?
I wonder what the state flags in the TL look like?