Our Fair Country: The Commonwealth of New England
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Ah! Speaker Armstrong! I hope you're ready for an unforgettable luncheon!
Yup!
https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...h-of-new-england.434287/page-49#post-16759466
My BBC news articles are the ones I pack with details. Most of the things there aren't new! The British withdrawal from Burma is more akin to the withdrawal from Iraq, not the newly announced Syria agreement. The Burma conflict has been ending, and it has been alluded to many times this year.
The first article about Belgixt was also posted back in May! While some things are parallel, a lot have been brewing for quite some time in OFC! If you check my earlier articles, I lay everything in advance haha
Yeah I had noticed the Beljump stuff a while back but I completely had missed the Burma stuff
The United States in this timeline is great! The differences are planned really well, and even if everything is roughly similar to OTL enough is changed that it is still interesting. Plenty of other graphics timelines have implemented the sort of "similar to OTL" system, but I think that OFC had definitely mastered it and all changes feel natural and seem plausible.
Haha thanks! I can admit I will keep some things roughly similar (Great Depression happening around 1929/1930 for instance) but a lot of things are actually fairly different. America's political system is all kinds of different, and it is more prone to depressions (note in the 1904 election, I talk of a "Decades Depression" which is analogous to our Great Depression, only spread out longer. The OFC Great Depression is actually worse than the Depression we know of, which is why a socialist like Thomas had been able to "win." Of course, you're only getting little snippits of U.S. History so it's really easy to compare it to OTL, but I promise one I start getting into the 40s and 50s, you'll see the differences!
The similarities aren't necessarily bad, and I think you use them to your advantage to create an alternate America with familiar individuals while still creating a completely different nation. Either way, I will definitely be looking forward to more information about the alternate United States of America, and I love how you managed to implement a President Norman Thomas into an FDR-esque historical role.
Haha I am glad!! I hope to move in to my house in about two weeks so I defo will be gearing up for more content soon!
Ireland was not a nice place to live.
Sadly.
Congratulations! Moving into a new house must be pretty exciting, so good luck!
well this the same house ive been building since right after the new england election so yeah, it's finally friggen time!
I know what it's like to fix up a house for a long time before moving into it so extra congrats on that from me!
What an odd map. Ford wins the popular while coming last in both electoral vote and states carried.
Its not just America. I remember a thing @Thande did in which he created his own electoral system. He used the UK as an example and I remember for his 2010 results he had the Conservatives coming first in a seat that was made up of the Copeland, Barrow and Westmorland and Lonsdale - the first of which elected Labour MPs and the latter elected a Lib Dem MP in 2010.
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