Dominion of Southern America - Updated July 1, 2018

[Glen]

The Federalists were trounced in the midterm congressional elections of 1882 and again in the elections of 1884. The Democrats blamed overspending and stifling tarriffs for the continuation of the economic disaster, and sought to remove the gold standard. Thus the Democratic candidate, Erastus R. Bingham won office which he assumed in 1885. President Bingham was the first president to make his home west of the Mississippi, in Washington, though his family hailed from Vermont originally. However, the economic policies of the Democrats and the Bingham administration did nothing to restore confidence to the marketplace, and the midterm congressional election saw great losses for the Democrats this time. Bingham would serve one term only, and stated he was glad of it, never traveling east of the Mississippi again after his term in office.

 

[Glen]

One obvious trope to add will be world half full.

 

[Glen]

Hmm, do we just have a low correlation between readers of the DSA and TV Tropes?

 

[Glen]

I would think at least that the Roosevelts ITTL would count as a Badass Family on TV Tropes.

 

[Iserlohn]

Hmm, do we just have a low correlation between readers of the DSA and TV Tropes?

I think the main reasons people (and that includes me) don't comment on this is simple: Either there is a lack of knowledge about specific tropes (both A LOT to work with and so. MANY. different, specific tropes!) or the fact that people just like to add tropes when they stumble across the timeline on TV Tropes (if that wording makes sense).

 

[Umbric Man]

I think the main reasons people (and that includes me) don't comment on this is simple: Either there is a lack of knowledge about specific tropes (both A LOT to work with and so. MANY. different, specific tropes!) or the fact that people just like to add tropes when they stumble across the timeline on TV Tropes (if that wording makes sense).

Bingo. While I'm pretty sure a lot of us will be happy to add in tropes once the ball gets rolling, this timeline has a lot to put in from the get-go.

 

[Lycaon pictus]

How about…

Shout Out: Great Britain's wartime prime minister is Arthur Wellesley Lovecraft… and denounces the Korsgaardist regimes for their "dehumanization in favor of the cyclopean state."

 

[W.W.A.F.T.]

President Erastus R. Bingham

Ha!-snort

didn't see that one coming

Bingham was the first president to make his home west of the Mississippi

which is awesome!

never traveling east of the Mississippi again after his term in office

And he's a true westerner to boot!

(also, on a different note: didn't you some time ago ask about different vacation destinations for TTL USA? if so and you're still interested I know a great one.)

 

[Glen]

I think the main reasons people (and that includes me) don't comment on this is simple: Either there is a lack of knowledge about specific tropes (both A LOT to work with and so. MANY. different, specific tropes!)

Search function helps.

or the fact that people just like to add tropes when they stumble across the timeline on TV Tropes (if that wording makes sense).

That's a point, but we do need to have some basics I think before creating the page, something for people to add on to.

 

[Glen]

Bingo. While I'm pretty sure a lot of us will be happy to add in tropes once the ball gets rolling, this timeline has a lot to put in from the get-go.

If so, then we ought to be able to cobble some together to start with.

 

[Glen]

How about…

Shout Out: Great Britain's wartime prime minister is Arthur Wellesley Lovecraft… and denounces the Korsgaardist regimes for their "dehumanization in favor of the cyclopean state."

Good example! The DSA timeline is full of various types of Shout Out, sometimes bordering on Reference Overdosed. We have examples of Homage in the Speculative Fiction post (with TTL's AH of LTTW, Course of Human Events, etc.).

 

[Glen]

Ha!-snort

didn't see that one coming

which is awesome!

And he's a true westerner to boot!

He just sounded like a 19th century politician! I take it you are happy with your cameo?

(also, on a different note: didn't you some time ago ask about different vacation destinations for TTL USA? if so and you're still interested I know a great one.)

Let's hear about it, please!

 

[Lord Insane]

Divided States of America and Expanded States of America - the first since the starting point is that several of the states that would have formed the USA, doesn't, while the later since the USA ends up including several states it didn't hold in OTL.

 

[IchBinDieKaiser]

After Alaska is purchased from Russia by the United States, "There goes the continent." It ain't much but there you go.

 

[Glen]

Divided States of America and Expanded States of America - the first since the starting point is that several of the states that would have formed the USA, doesn't, while the later since the USA ends up including several states it didn't hold in OTL.

Absolutely, LordInsane, absolutely!

 

[Glen]

After Alaska is purchased from Russia by the United States, "There goes the continent." It ain't much but there you go.

Every bit helps, my friend, and is appreciated. I can't find a "There Goes the Continent" trope - is it perhaps by some other name?

 

[Glen]

The Global War does go a bit Steam Punk so we can add that Trope.

 

[Glen]

I think we could justify both Zeppelins from Another World and Cool Airship for the Dirigibles developed in the end of the 19th century in general and the Orcas specifically. Also can do Cool Train for our coverage of Armored Trains in the Global War.

 

[Glen]

Everything is Big in Texas could count as TTL's Texas plays a big role in history.

 

[IchBinDieKaiser]

Every bit helps, my friend, and is appreciated. I can't find a "There Goes the Continent" trope - is it perhaps by some other name?

"There goes the neighborhood."