I wonder what sort of movies one would see depicting life in any little Dixies that pop up across Northern cities. ITTL these neighborhoods full of Southern migrants and their descendants seem to be pretty rough, many having a multitude of gangs that seem to engage in a lot of violence’s
I also wonder what sort of music and literature have been created in these communities in the years following the annexation of the former Confederacy.
The mass migration of people from the Midsouth to other regions of the USA began in the 1980s. This was primarily because of economic reasons. The enclaves formed by these migrants in different US cities became popularly known as Dixielands.
There were several themes that were present in many of the songs, poems, novels, and films by migrants from the Midsouth who either moved to or were born in Dixieland enclaves. These themes included the struggle to survive and move up the economic ladder, the suspicion of outsiders and reliance on family, the goal to escape the legacy of the CSA and failing to do so.
Some of the films made by Dixieland migrants and their descendants in the late 20th Century and early 21st Century, such as
Enemy Ours (1984),
Tupelo’s Way (1992),
Caffeinated (1995),
North Orleans (2001), and
Everglade Cafe (2012) were inspired by older kinds of filmmaking styles in the USA, such as those derived from American Nihilism in the 1970s in TTL.
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Migrants from the Midsouth brought the region’s music to the various Dixielands, including analogues to what someone in our world might recognize as Bluegrass, Country, and Gospel. Unlike in our world, these genres would not contribute to anything as influential worldwide as Rock and Roll. Popular bands that emerged in the Dixielands in the late 20th Century and early 21st Century were influenced heavily by other kinds of popular music, such as Stomp in the 1980s, Fabrika-Punk in the 1990s, and Ios Sound in the 2010s.