AHC: More American America

Have America with...

More wealth
More racial inequality
Fatter
More religious South
More Hedonistic Hollywood and Wall Street
Nerdier Silicon Valley
More guns
More waste
Worse test scores
Stronger military
More aggressive and overtly corrupt CIA

If you can add anymore stereotypes, go ahead.
 
No, America's wealth had gone down to drain with it.

Hard to imagine For All Time being any better on that score.

That said, I think religiosity in the South is the only one of these trends that isn’t accelerating as we speak, so just wait ten years.
 
I know this is the post-1900 board, but preventing the civil war as we know it might accomplish at least some of these. Without the war to break the South's political power and allow the Radical Republicans a window to implement things like the 13th and 14th amendments I think you're likely to see slavery continue for awhile longer, and with its eventual end being followed up by very strict Jim Crow-type laws and political restriction. This'd give you more inequality, and the authorities might turn to an increasingly religious view on this issue to justify what they're doing. Obviously this would have huge butterflies that would change history to a huge degree, but I think it's a possibility of how one could achieve more stereotypical Americanness.
 
More wealth

More irredentism, more annexations, monopolise the rare metals industry via asteroid mining

More racial inequality

No minimum wage, no increasing tax brackets


Subsidised... everything that would require physical work. So subsidised public transport, subsidised heavy machinery, and of course subsidised food

More religious South

Something that can't be easily explained with the science of the time (like an off-course Tunguska blast) happens in the deep south, destroying a town that was mostly populated by non-christians

More Hedonistic Hollywood and Wall Street

Hedonistic??

Nerdier Silicon Valley

Elon Musk has a larger presence there

More guns

No gun-free zones or firearms regulations, thus far less mass shootings, thus no gun-free zones or firearms regulations, thus the cycle of death doesn't happen

More waste

Climate change is never taken seriously, and t's evidence is eventually covered-up by the government

Worse test scores

Even less funding of anything education-related

Stronger military

Rather than gradually losing confidence, the US decides to win the Vietnam war by any means necessary
Four decades later, rather than just attack Iraq as in OTL, the US goes after all of the "axis of resistance" countries at once

More aggressive and overtly corrupt CIA

9/11 happens when the towers are full, and the fourth plane hit's it's target
 
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