Recent content by Desmond Hume

An alternate earlier ending to World War I. POD is something like the Battle of the Marne being a more decisive Allied victory. The war still stagnates into trench warfare but Germany is in a less advantageous position in the West. Germany still does OK in the East but Russia narrowly avoids...

This scenario is so cool! I wonder what might happen with language, given Dutch and English are so closely related. Maybe a unique "Amerikaans" creole language might emerge from the linguistic border zone? Is Dutch-English bilingualism very widespread? Or only in certain parts of the country?

Yes, I suppose it would have to unless this United States got rid of the EC. My rough calculation is that this system would yield an EC with 571 votes, so 286 are needed to win (assume House stays at 435 + DC's 3 EVs). I hadn't thought much about it, but there are some interesting...

A map of an alternate method of apportioning seats in the US Senate. Instead of every state getting 2 seats, the states are divided into 4 "tiers" with each tier containing roughly 25% of the country's population. The largest states get 5 seats, the next largest get 4 seats, the third largest...

An alternate election map for the US House of Representatives loosely based on TL-191 but with some changes. I used the districts from the OTL 1970's as the base map (original on Wikipedia) and didn't change them mostly because I lack the mapping skills for that. I tried to include the TL-191...

The wider world of my Florida maps. I should do a graphical timeline for these. The lands that comprise the republics of Roanoke and Muscogee were once the core of the CSA. But after Confederate defeat in the Second Great War, the USA vowed it would never again permit any threat to it to emerge...

I was going to post a map of the other ex-Confederate countries from my timeline before I did any more Florida material, but this map is done and the other one will take some more time, so... Republic of Florida National Assembly Election, 2017 In Florida, the legislative branch consists of a...

I did some work on my Republic of Florida map to make it into an election map. Republic of Florida county elections, 2019 Local elections for the positions of county councilors and county Executive Commissioners are important barometers for national elections in the Republic of Florida. By a...

The Republic of Florida is one of the four post-Confederate republics founded after the CSA was broken up by the victorious Yankees after the Second Great War ended in 1955. It consists of the entirety of the former state of Florida plus the coastal territories of the former states of...

So I've been getting back into making AH as a way of dealing with quarantine. I decided to try making a transit map and made this light rail system map for Tampa, Florida. There is no real timeline behind it, let's say the United States takes some different directions after 1945 and mass transit...

Hesperia, if the namer is in to classical imitation.

The way the author discusses culture strikes me as especially simplistic, because he posits too clear of a break between the pre- and post-Reformation periods. While it's undeniable that the destruction of monasteries in particular caused a lot of England's medieval, Catholic heritage to be lost...

Censorship in Elizabethan and Jacobean England tended to be more inconsistent and unpredictable than in later periods. Decisions about what to censor or permit were not standardized. Instead, there were all kinds of royal decrees, Parliamentary statutes, and such that imposed censorship on...

One thing about the realignment I don't get (I'm way younger than the NFL-AFL merger, so I don't remember the reasons for this): why those three teams? Why Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore, instead of any other three? All three were well-established NFL members by the time of the merger. Is...

Before a Canada vs. Russia hockey match, the Russian leader does a few too many vodka shots and, feeling overconfident, bets his nation's sovereignty on the game's outcome. Russia goes on to lose the game. Perhaps this could happen when Boris Yeltsin is president.