Recent content by bm79

I'm from New Orleans, which is why I asked. In modern OTL politics, we are a small leftist island in a deep sea of (to be kind) incredibly backwards-looking conservatives. Were this Communist insurgency just based on support from the Black community, there are few parishes where Black people...

Une question: So is New Orleans loyal to the CSA, part of the USA, or independent? Hard to tell from the colors. I ask cuz if that part of the world were ever to go Communist, that would have started in New Orleans and not have left it out.

What is this border between Luisiana and Florida? Also, this basemap sucks in terms of the coastline here in Louisiana. It pretty much erases Terrebonne Parish off the map, which won't bother anyone besides the 150 000 or so people who live down there, but they're fine. But what it this weird...

Rast, your English is like my French: generally right on the money but sometimes, when you're searching for the right word... I didn't know that laicism and laicist were even words in English. My spellchecker has even flagged laicist as I'm typing this. Since I speak French, I completely...

Just had a brainfart: a version of Jean-Jacques Goldman's "Je te donne" as the rallying cry for aid to those in the formerly occupied parts of France and Belgium. Not exactly that song, but the idea of a Frenchman and a Brit doing a duet. Band-Aid 1942? What a public relations coup amongst the...

Great update! Must admit to being a bit confused, however. With brief updates spread over a long span of time with many pages in between (no shade, I understand life gets in the way), I no longer have a good grasp of the situation on the ground and don't have the time to comb the thread for...

SO the original expulsion of the Acadians wasn't enough, you'd like that that tragedy be compounded with the creation of an offshore Bantustan for their inland cousins? This is just sick and disturbing

Seconded. With all the buildup, we deserve a fuller picture, not just a mention as a footnote. If you're waiting for the release of the full post-disaster analysis to come out before posting a detailed update on the event, you could have at least done a short "Breaking News" post. You've done it...

In FTL/France Fights On www.1940lafrancecontinue.org/, the MN Surcouf does indeed serve in the Pacific, showing up in all sorts of places... like Tokyo Bay in one instance! An amazing read if you speak French

In this scenario, we are only talking about the return of Upper and Lower Canada (including Labrador) and Cape Breton and Prince Edward Islands. NB and mainland NS were ceded to England back in 1713 and would not have been on the table. As for Louisiana, the French had ceded it to the Spanish in...

Indeed. Outside the Border states, the vast majority of African Americans in Northern states would have been found in the cities. This can be traced back to colonial times. While slavery was legal in all the colonies, above the Mason-Dixon line, few slaves were agricultural. They served in all...

Hurray 300 pages! Any chance of an update of the Western Front soon?

OTL Cyrenaica and Crete were ruled together as a Roman province.

Between Boulogne and Cherbourg, there just so happens to be Le Havre. What's the logistical issue that exists here for the BEF? Much more of the rail network of northern France is open to the Brits than it was during the first war, and they've had a year to plan for this offensive.

I hadn't realized before this that the German offensive early August had split the Belgian Army into two, that they held the line on both sides of their corridor to the North Sea. I now understand why the Belgian troops on the northern side of the corridor were placed under Dutch command, as the...