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I don't think it would make much of a difference. As I said, the issue is "cheap" not "brutalist". Because reinforced concrete was in favor as the cheapest way to make buildings, things would probably still be from that, just with various facades. If you have a good source of clay nearby, brick...

The Midwest is cold for elephants. Anywhere that you could call "the Midwest" with a straight face is cold, miserable, and often snowy for months in the winter. There's an elephant sanctuary in Tennessee, though, and they do very well with heated barns in the winter (both African and Indian). I...

I'm somewhat concerned about the "league of leagues". There's some precedent in the Unterwalden, which sent representatives from each valley even from the signing of the original Pact of Brennan. But the formal advent of half-cantons doesn't happen until Appenzell's Catholic and Protestant bits...

I mean, it depends. Do the towers have large windows? Are there balconies? Are they perhaps painted in bright, friendly colors? Are their bases surrounded by friendly community gardens with plenty of grass, trees, and the occasional playground? Consider, for example the Barbican in London. It's...

What is the distinction between NE WASPS and Virginia Planters on the one hand, and British settlers on the other? Both of those groups are originally British settlers...

That's not true. The Stykkishólmur Church in Iceland, for example, is quite beautiful in my opinion. Or the Orange County Courthouse in upstate New York. There are others, too. The problem is that the stark, unadorned style means that you tend to end up with buildings that are either boldly...

At first I was very perturbed, but the more I look at it, the more okay it seems.

You have blown-up maps of Chicago, Philadelphia, and Manhattan displayed off the East Coast.

Why just Manhattan? By 1922, all of NYC had consolidated, and Brooklyn's population was barely smaller than Manhattan's (though I wasn't able to find House districts).

Turkish and Arab nationalism was already rising before WWI. France was already taking a special interest in Lebanon, and Zionism was already A Thing. It's very likely that the Ottoman Empire would have had to reform within a couple decades even without WWI, and that this may have seen the Arab...

No one's going to bring up the fact that the Confederate constitution forbids this practice?

Ah, my favorite fallacy! A lot of good has been said in this thread already, but I nevertheless want to go into a few things. People say this a lot, and it simply isn't true. It fits nicely into a narrative about European colonialism, but it goes too far. Aside from a few straight lines drawn...

1922 saw an exchange of 1.5 million people between Greece and Turkey, sometimes at the end of a bayonet. This was widely considered a good thing, and was one of the major things cited when giving Nansen his Nobel Peace Prize. The early Soviet population transfers to shore up their "ethnic...

Absolutely. Don't forget the mass deaths from infrastructure collapse! Survivors need to either already be subsistence farmers/hunters/fishers, or become such very quickly. And transition over to maintaining their own tools in the months and years to come, which is a tall order. I don't think...

This is true...but also Philip had pretty good relations with the Papacy in general. For example, he was granted permission to marry his aunt (by marriage, but still forbidden by consanguinity laws). He was also a pretty good patron of the Church, and was so enthusiastic about donating to the...

It's because the building that the Senate and House of Representatives meet in is called the United States Capitol, the name invoking the hill in Rome. So a place that may be considered the US seat of government is called the "capitol".

God, I still can't believe how many people vote for the Gender Reveal Party. Are they not aware that even though the Dyson swarm is being sold as "an end to energy scarcity system-wide", the Revealers clearly intend to use it to power a vast post-human mass of self-replicating constructs in...

I rather like Pas de Calais - Nord. It makes sense for that spot to be governed directly from Paris, possibly as some sort of militarized exclave.

Would it be possible for the Savoyards to impose their own language/dialect on Italy instead of the "standard" version that only people who lived in Florence anyway spoke? While Victor Emmanuel very likely spoke French at home, the Savoyard court had been in Turin for quite some time by Italian...

Sorry, I forgot because of