POD: Furry gangs/The Warriors type US society.

Tohno

Banned
Why's that? It seems like social dislocation and urban decay, which might be two primary factors leading to organized youth violence, can be easily replicated in a number of major urban centers worldwide in the mid to late 20th century.

Well the Otaku & Furry subculture was largely exported to the US post-WWII (I know there was people doing this before - i.e. a blak science fiction author called Sun Ra). Now if you can see this fitting better in say, France or China where the KMT won, sure go for it.

Ok, lemme see if I get this straight...

with a POD of less industrialization in the 1940s/150s, you want to have furries, which did not really exist before the 1980s, to develop into a criminal Gang structure, while using a fictional book/movie based on The Anabasis as your main point.

...I don't see it.

less suburbanization/more of a 'traditional' city design. They need not all be criminal, maybe 'deliquent' might be a better term.
 
well, Gangs of New York had the "dead rabbits" so why not something similar ?

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One POD that could serve to get things moving is to have in 1975, Gerald refuse to bailout New York City from its bankruptcy. Apparently, this would have had a trigger effect in having other cities go bankrupt up until 1977. With this in play, you could certainly have gangs appear along the lines of The Warriors and the roving gangs similar to Dawn of the Dead. The "Furries" contingent could come as a result of the cultural backlash created as response to what is perceived as a "cultural war"....
 
You still have not shown a plausible scenario for turning disconnected fringe subculture groups into a wide-spread warrior-type youth/young adult gang culture; "less suburbanization/more of a 'traditional' city design" isn't enough to accomplish what you want.
 

Tohno

Banned
You still have not shown a plausible scenario for turning disconnected fringe subculture groups into a wide-spread warrior-type youth/young adult gang culture; "less suburbanization/more of a 'traditional' city design" isn't enough to accomplish what you want.

hmm. can you provide a better POD then? There need not be ALL furries, just some furry gang motifs which are more popular. Hell, it can be 'furries vs Trenchcoats' where you have 'trenchcoat mafia' and other group as different factions. Let your mind run free, broths ;):p
 
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