Stars, Stripes, Banner, and Sun - An US State of Philippines TL

Will Philippines become a US State or Split into 3 States or Retained Commonwealth Status?


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Stars, Stripes, Banner, and Sun - An US State of Philippines
An American Statehood in the PhilippinesTimeline by Gabzcervo

"When our nation had become part of us,
whether to gain independence or not.
First, we need to vote for independence, remain commonwealth or statehood.
And second, it wanted to be Independent or US State."
Manuel A. Roxas

Certainly, much could have been done to attempt to gained independence or retained commonwealth or split into 3 States or statehood.

At the while, the Philippines has desire for independence, after it completely damaged by WWII, as more than 957,000 died in the World War II alone, the Hukbalahap are chasing their forces after WWII, since more than 377 years of Spanish Rule, the Americans started to create a plebiscite on July 4, 1946.

When plebiscite ends whether gain independence from US, retained Commonwealth status, or gained US statehood or split into 3 for possible statehood, from plebiscite until today.


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Hi there. Long time lurker who decided to create my first TL, Philippines is more much interested. My goal with this TL is to create a somewhat plausible US statehood in the Philippine Islands
 
PART I
A NEW STATE



Chapter I: Statehood and Split of Islands


July 1946 saw the split of Philippine Islands into new 3 US States, the United States Congress and Senate were approved of splitting up into 3 new states, U.S. President Harry S. Truman appointed Governor of Luzon named Elpidio Quirino and Lieutenant Governor named Manuel Moran, Governor of Visayas named José Avelino and Lieutenant Governor named Mariano Jesús Cuenco, and the Governor of Mindanao named Ramon Magsaysay and Lieutenant Governor Tomas Cabili. On August 2, the Filipinos are granted and gained US Citizenship, while on the other hand, the US Congress ratified admissions into US State, Philippine President Manuel A. Roxas finally chosen last negotiations between Philippine Commonwealth and the Federal Government. On September 22, Philippine President Manuel A. Roxas resigned and signed final negotiations, dissolving Commonwealth of Philippines, On the other hand, US Senate proposed to change U.S. Flag to add 3 stars and update to 51st Stars of United States Flag.

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Philippines as of October 30, 1946 at the resumption of Chinese Civil War
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Elpidio Quirino, First Governor of Luzon as of October 30, 1946
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Jose Avelino, First Governor of Visayas with Picture Session
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Ramon Magsaysay, First Governor of Mindanao as of October 30, 1946
In the years following the admission of 3 Philippine Islands into US State, the Congress Ratified the Flag Update, President Harry S. Truman signed the Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao Admission Act on November 1, 1946, dissolving Philippine Commonwealth, After a popular referendum in which over 94% favor of Split up into 3 islands and statehood, Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao admitted as 49th, 50th, and 51st state on November 2, 1946.

For few Filipinos, the manner in which Philippines split up into 3 states and the abrupt dissolution of Philippines was illegal [2]. Philippine Senators and Vice President were direct appointees of the US President. Filipinos created the Home Rule Philippines Party to seek greater self-government. Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao was subject to cultural, religious [1] and societal repression during territorial, Commonwealth, World War II, and the first decade of statehood.


Flag of United States with 51st Stars as of December 1946
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[1] Due to Muslims and Moros, Mindanao experienced religious riots and violence and therefore it will be solved in 1965 or Civil Rights or Upcoming Muslim Rebellion of 1976-1994
[2] Muslims do not want Mindanao to be U.S. State, they want to declare independence or join Malaysia unless it granted rights
 
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Sceonn, as I've said, I'd think you'd need an earlier Spanish-American War to make the Philippines an American state; now, if you want it to be an area like, say, Puerto Rico, that's doable, IMO...

And make it several territories...
 
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Welcome to the forums. :p :p :p

And much as I don't like being so blunt online, this is basically ASB. America has no desire to give a country full of half-breed Oriental Papists full representation in their government, and we Filipinos wouldn't have wanted it anyway.

It would be unrealistic to make one state out of the Philippines. Far too populous. It would have to be split into three.

Not to mention this country is full of *gasp* Catholics! And worse, non-whites. And I doubt America has the willpower to genocide people to acceptably white levels. It'd be an atrocity to rival the Holocaust.
 
Welcome to the forums. :p :p :p

And much as I don't like being so blunt online, this is basically ASB. America has no desire to give a country full of half-breed Oriental Papists full representation in their government, and we Filipinos wouldn't have wanted it anyway.



Not to mention this country is full of *gasp* Catholics! And worse, non-whites. And I doubt America has the willpower to genocide people to acceptably white levels. It'd be an atrocity to rival the Holocaust.
Honestly I think you would see a weird case where both nativist and anti-colonialists would oppose the move of making states out of the area.
 
PART II
A NEW INSURGENCY
Chapter II: Rising Trouble in Luzon

January 1947, is the first year of statehood in Luzon, but suddenly a trouble came in when HUKBALAHAP are launching armed battles against local police, Governor of Luzon Elpidio Quirino reacted fast, he says "Luzon National Guard must be created, we need to put down tyrant communist rebels.", when first skirmishes between local police and Hukbalahap rebels in Isabela County, Luzon, Hukbalahap ambushed local police, leaving 6 killed, USCIC reacted fast and discovered active Hukbalahap activity, Governor enacted "Mailed-first policy" to crush the rebellion, on January 18, HUKBALAHAP kidnapped immigrant from Maryland and ambushed British farmer in Nueva Ecija county, Governor seeks assistance to deploy National Guards from U.S. Mainland to quell the insurgency, On February 1, Luzon National Guard was established replacing dead Philippine National Guard, on February 5, first battle between Hukbalahap rebels and local police with National Guard, with more than members of Hukbalahap are killed, while 4 local police with National Guard members were killed, the first victory for local police and National Guard. State of Emergency had been declared in counties of Central Luzon, Governor called Huks to surrender and gave up arms to local police and National Guard, except those who are hiding in the mountains.

Governor Elpidio Quirino also invested the economy of State of Luzon and created a railroad project and urban planning for cities in Luzon, he pursued to boost reconstruction and recovery in war torn Manila and other places[2], but an obstacle of Hukbalahap makes difficult for railroad project until 1948. Governor Qurino to launch campaign to boost tourism industry and state program to boost Filipino culture.

However the trouble is not yet finished until August, 1948.[1]


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[1] Due to U.S. State, Hukbalahap Rebellion will finished earlier
[2] Being a U.S. State will easier to rebuild war-torn buildings or infrastructure
 
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Hello, Ladies and Gentlemen, i will start my TL: Years of Hope: Global Hegemony of the Century, so changes will be announced soon.
 
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Welcome to the forums. :p :p :p

And much as I don't like being so blunt online, this is basically ASB. America has no desire to give a country full of half-breed Oriental Papists full representation in their government, and we Filipinos wouldn't have wanted it anyway.



Not to mention this country is full of *gasp* Catholics! And worse, non-whites. And I doubt America has the willpower to genocide people to acceptably white levels. It'd be an atrocity to rival the Holocaust.

Not so, anything that is highly unlikely but physically possible without evolution is NOT ASB. Nor is the entire Congress going stupid and authorizing something zero of the 50 states (it's 47 states at this point right?) want ASB. Look at TvTropes for ASB. Or better yet, look at the help forums on this very site and what they consider ASB.

I do agree that the assimilation of a state with less than 75% white levels full of Catholics is... not going to happen. With a 1870s POD and a bit of work, the Americans might have had the willpower to make it "acceptable white levels" if you get the drift. To make this plausible you'd need someone with lots of money passing bribes (1920s politics was all about the corruption) or mind control (which IS ASB).
 
Welcome to the forums. :p :p :p

And much as I don't like being so blunt online, this is basically ASB. America has no desire to give a country full of half-breed Oriental Papists full representation in their government, and we Filipinos wouldn't have wanted it anyway.



Not to mention this country is full of *gasp* Catholics! And worse, non-whites. And I doubt America has the willpower to genocide people to acceptably white levels. It'd be an atrocity to rival the Holocaust.

They could be made states due to an even worst communist presence in Asia. Would that be possible ? Protect the last vestige of murican freedom in eastern Asia from the reds.
 
They could be made states due to an even worst communist presence in Asia. Would that be possible ? Protect the last vestige of murican freedom in eastern Asia from the reds.

A let me know soon.....

Yes, Sometimes, due to US sovereign control in Philippine Islands.

By making Korean War ended with South Korean Victory and Vietnam War might ends in stalemate, resulting South Vietnam becoming the South Korea of Southeast Asia. Or i think that Chinese Civil War Ends in dividing China into 2.
 
Welcome to the forums. :p :p :p

And much as I don't like being so blunt online, this is basically ASB. America has no desire to give a country full of half-breed Oriental Papists full representation in their government, and we Filipinos wouldn't have wanted it anyway.



Not to mention this country is full of *gasp* Catholics! And worse, non-whites. And I doubt America has the willpower to genocide people to acceptably white levels. It'd be an atrocity to rival the Holocaust.

What?

No Genocide, Talking about Genocide or Atrocity is prohibited, just Emigration of Filipinos into Alaska, Mainland U.S., and Hawaii, while Americans from Mainland U.S., Hawaii, and Alaska also Immigrate into 3 U.S. States in the Philippine Islands.

Don't worry there will be a Civil Rights Act earlier.
 
No Genocide, Talking about Genocide or Atrocity is prohibited, just Emigration of Filipinos into Alaska, Mainland U.S., and Hawaii, while Americans from Mainland U.S., Hawaii, and Alaska also Immigrate into 3 U.S. States in the Philippine Islands.

It's not forbidden to talk about genocide. Just that it's forbidden to talk about it as a moral action, which it never is.

As for emigration, why? Is it because the Philippines is a shithole? Is it because America wants to assimilate Filipinos? Because if America wanted to assimilate brown Catholics, it would have taken all of Mexico already beforehand. To take the Philippines is to take in precisely what America in this era wanted to keep out. For all the rhetoric of wanting to 'uplift and civilize' the Philippines, America refused to give us the same rights, refused to give its own citizens the same rights. Ethnic cleansing need not be direct genocide.

And an earlier Civil Rights Act does not make sense unless America's whole civil society is utterly different from OTL, which it does not seem to be.
 
They could be made states due to an even worst communist presence in Asia. Would that be possible ? Protect the last vestige of murican freedom in eastern Asia from the reds.

Ick. No, that would make America reject the Philippines far more than it would accept it. It would prefer a fascist regime ruling this country than it would a leftist democracy. As it proved IOTL with their dealings with Marcos.

If anything, America would use anything else to bring the Philippines into line. Arming the anti-communist Army, putting one of its generals into power, funding anything and everything, but hell if it would acknowledge the legitimate grievances of Filipinos, let alone put us on an equal footing with white Americans.
 
Television Stations in U.S. States of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao
Telvision Stations in the U.S. States of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao has a variety of Stations and Afilliated Stations in 3 US States in Philippine Islands. It could be traced back as Radio, In 1922, a Mrs. Redgrave, an American, began test broadcasting from Nichols air field with a five-watt transmitter. This would put her ahead of Henry Hermann who began test broadcasts from three stations in June 1922. Lent's (1978) collection of histories of broadcasting in Asia shows that Philippine radio was probably the earliest in Asia, ahead of Chinese radio by at least six months and at least as early as, if not earlier than, New Zealand radio.
Hermann, owner of the Manila-based Electrical Supply Company, wanted to broadcast music to a number of radio receiving set owners, and test the business potential of broadcasting. The manuals as well as Lent indicated that Hermann went on the air armed with a temporary permit, but neither writer identified exactly whom or which institution gave Hermann this permit to operate experimental radio stations. Two years into the experiment Hermann replaced the experimental stations with a 100-watt station with the call letters KZKZ. However, Hermann soon after gave up on the commercial potential of radio. On October 4, 1924, with KZKZ but a few months old, he sold it to the Radio Corporation of the Philippines (RCP)


Lent (1973) traces the appearance of the first radio station outside of Manila to 1929 when RCP put up KZRC, now KYRC (Radio Cebu), a one-kilowatt experimental station in Cebu City.
Much of the programming was patterned after American broadcasting and was indeed run by Americans. At first, sponsors did not directly advertise their products but mentioned only their names as sponsor of particular shows, or titled the shows after their product, for example Klim Musical Quiz or The Listerine Amateur Hour. Early regulation of broadcasting was begun in 1931 when the colonial government (of the USA) began realizing the business potential of radio, and thus passed the Radio Control Law creating the regulatory body Radio Control Board. The board examined applications for licenses to operate radio, allocated band frequencies, and conducted inspections for the office of the Secretary of Commerce and Industry.
At the dawn of World War II and the subsequent Japanese Occupation of Philippines, the Japanese had seized broadcasting stations, the oldest broadcast stations in Manila is KZRH was rebranded PIAM ("Philippine Islands AM"), becoming a tool for the Second Republic's propaganda.

After the War, three prominent businessmen Maestro Frederico Elizalde and his brothers then-Ambassador JM and Manuel (also known as Don Manolo) took over KZRH and KZRC. With the help of station manager Bertrand Silen, KZRH re-established its operations, this time at the Insular Life Building on Plaza Cervantes in Binondo, Manila. In June 1946, the Elizalde family established the new network as Manila Broadcasting Company.
KZRH returned to the airwaves under MBC on July 1, 1946, and first covering the live inauguration of Three Governors and Lieutenant Governors of newly-US States in 3 Philippine Islands. In 1950s, the Television has been imported from U.S. Mainland. In 1949 of January, Governor Elpidio Quirino opened new first television station named KZRH, the oldest TV stations in the U.S. States in 3 Philippine Islands, followed by KZRC and others.


Today. Television Stations has been changed with new TV networks and affiliates.

These Television Stations in 3 U.S. States of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao
Manila

KZRH - NBC7 Manila and Quezon City
KWWX - ABC7 Manila and Quezon City
KZBB - CBS2 Manila and Quezon City
KWET-5 - PBS Manila and Quezon City
KZTV - ZTV 9, CW affiliate
KWGT - Fox 12 Manila
Outside Manila, Luzon
KWOM - NBC Baguio
KZRR - ABC Baguio
KWYZ - CBS Baguio
KWCR - Fox 6 Baguio
KWYH - PBS affiliate in Baguio
KZRW - NBC Central Luzon
KWWN - ABC Central Luzon
KZYD - CBS Central Luzon
KZRR - PBS affiliate in Central Luzon
KWYE - NBC Legazpi and Bicol
KNRW - ABC Legazpi and Bicol
KWWJ - CBS Legazpi and Bicol
KZGN - CW affiliate in Legazpi and Bicol
KZHE - PBS in Legazpi and Bicol
Visayas
KYRC - NBC Cebu
KYWW - ABC Cebu
KYWN - CBS Cebu
KYRN - PBS affiliate in Cebu
KYNT - CW affiliate in Cebu
KYMZ - Fox 8 Cebu
KYZJ - NBC 6 Roxas
KYMZ - ABC8 Roxas
KYJA - CBS 3 Roxas
KYNR - Fox 3 Roxas
KYRZ - PBS affiliate in Roxas
Mindanao
KXNR - NBC Davao
KXYJ - ABC Davao
KXNR - CBS Davao
KXOR - PBS affiliate in Davao
KXTL - CW affiliate in Davao
 
PART III
NATIONALISTS TURNED TIDES AGAINST COMMUNISTS


Chapter II: Nationalists Strikes Back

Since March 1946, is the resumption of Chinese Civil War, By the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the power of the Communist Party grew considerably. Their main force grew to 1.2 million troops, with a militia of 2 million. Their "Liberated Zone" contained 19 base areas, including one-quarter of the country's territory and one-third of its population; this included many important towns and cities. Moreover, the Soviet Union turned over all of its captured Japanese weapons and a substantial amount of their own supplies to the Communists, who received Northeastern China from the Soviets as well.

But the admission of 3 Philippine Islands into U.S. State may possibly allow United States and United Kingdom for intervention, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Harry Truman met Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek for summit to have new strategic plan to crush the communists, the new treaty on Economic, Political, and Military alliance with United Kingdom and United States, hoping for defeat to make a final blow to Chinese Communists.
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US President, British Prime Minister, and Chinese Generalissimo in Cairo conference

Conference of Cairo concludes new alliances with 2 powers to making it to intervene and crush the communists, leading to Start of Nationalists Strike Back. On February 1947, the Americans and British forces deployed in KMT-controlled cities, before the CPC start of battle, while the Kuomintang had new battle strategy plans for combined troops to batter and shatter the communists.
Knowing their disadvantages in manpower and equipment, the CPC executed a "passive defense" strategy. It avoided the strong points of the KMT army and was prepared to abandon territory in order to preserve its forces. In most cases the surrounding countryside and small towns had come under Communist influence long before the cities. The CPC also attempted to wear out the KMT forces as much as possible. This tactic seemed to be successful; after a year, the power balance became more favorable to the CPC. They wiped out 1.12 million KMT troops, while their strength grew to about two million men.
In March 1947 the KMT achieved a symbolic victory by seizing the CPC capital of Yan'an.The Communists counterattacked soon afterwards; on 30 June 1947 CPC troops crossed the Yellow River and moved to the Dabie Mountains area, restored and developed the Central Plain. At the same time, Communist forces also began to counterattack in Northeastern China, North China and East China, due to combined forces from United States and United Kingdom, KMT and combined forces launched "Chasing Battle Strategy", to defeat and cripple the CPC troops by bombing, but it leaves 1.4 million troops wiped out by British and American forces.

By late 1948, the CPC eventually captured the northern cities of Shenyang and Changchun and seized control of the Northeast after suffering numerous setbacks while trying to take the cities, with the decisive Liaoshen Campaign. The New 1st Army, regarded as the best KMT army, was forced to surrender after the CPC conducted a brutal six-month siege of Changchun that resulted in more than 150,000 civilian deaths from starvation, while in Central and South where American and British forces were strong to make difficult for CPC to fight against KMT army.

The capture of large KMT units provided the CPC with the tanks, heavy artillery and other combined-arms assets needed to execute offensive operations south of the Great Wall. By April 1948 the city of Luoyang fell, cutting the KMT army off from Xi'an. Following a fierce battle, the CPC captured Jinan and Shandong province on September 24, 1948. The Huaihai Campaign of late 1948 and early 1949 secured east-central China for the CPC. The outcome of these encounters were decisive for the military outcome of the civil war.

The Pingjin Campaign resulted in the Communist conquest of northern China. It lasted 64 days, from November 21, 1948, to January 31, 1949. The PLA suffered heavy casualties while securing Zhangjiakou, Tianjin along with its port and garrison at Dagu and Beiping. The CPC brought 890,000 troops from the northeast to oppose some 600,000 KMT troops with Strong 1,100,200 and 1,300,000 American and British troops with forces from WWII era. There were 520,000 CPC casualties at Zhangjiakou alone. They in turn killed, wounded or captured some 20,000 KMT, 3,000 Americans, 4,000 British during the campaign.

After the decisive Liaoshen, Huaihai and Pingjin campaigns, the CPC wiped out 144 regular and 29 non-regular KMT divisions, including 1.54 million veteran KMT troops. This effectively smashed the backbone of the KMT army, while KMT and combined troops wiped out more than million veteran CPC troops due to bombing and airstrikes, the CPC gradually losing sides as combined forces are too strong enough to fight it.

However, Mao invited American, Soviet and British Representatives on March 3, 1949, to sign peace treaty, dividing China into two, the Northern China will be People's Republic of China, while Southern part will retain under Kuomintang control, the Cold War ultimately began.
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World Map as of 1950 after Division of China


 
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