WI/AHC: US Cinema Centered In Texas, Not California

Do you think in general we'd see more Westerns in this world? B/c TX is the film capital of America.

California has some pretty rich Western history too, though. And can you really make more Westerns than in OTL when the genre was utterly huge as it was? But you'd have more "filmed on location" so to speak.
 
Another thing is the Mid Atlantic accent thing might be replaced by a fake southern/western accent ?
would Texas English be more seen as standard, you're asking? I'd agree.
California has some pretty rich Western history too, though. And can you really make more Westerns than in OTL when the genre was utterly huge as it was? But you'd have more "filmed on location" so to speak.
What do you mean by this?
 

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Would Texas become more liberal and California become more conservative?
California was a solid GOP state until the 90s. It was still considered a swing state in 1988! It took until 2000 to it was a solid Democratic state and uncontested.

What happened was Pete Wilson. He was governor of California during the 90s. He proposed Proposotion 187 in 1994, which denied social services to illegal immigrants. This included public schools.

It passed and Wilson won reelection, but that firmly cemented the Hispanic population to vote democratic, even higher then the national average!

Hollywood didn't make California democratic. It was a big factor but not the deciding factor. Northern California (Cascadia) was always liberal. So is San Francisco. But the Hispanic population turned it a solid D.

So, Hollywood in Texas might make it a swing state sooner.
 
California was a solid GOP state until the 90s. It was still considered a swing state in 1988! It took until 2000 to it was a solid Democratic state and uncontested.

What happened was Pete Wilson. He was governor of California during the 90s. He proposed Proposotion 187 in 1994, which denied social services to illegal immigrants. This included public schools.

It passed and Wilson won reelection, but that firmly cemented the Hispanic population to vote democratic, even higher then the national average!

Hollywood didn't make California democratic. It was a big factor but not the deciding factor. Northern California (Cascadia) was always liberal. So is San Francisco. But the Hispanic population turned it a solid D.

So, Hollywood in Texas might make it a swing state sooner.
Partially that, partially BRAC hitting California harder than anywhere else, and the end of the Cold War causing a major shrinkage in all the aerospace contractors in California.
 
"What I'm hearing from my constituents is that they're sick and tired of Galveston shoving this deviant anti-family social agenda down everyone's throat!"

"Two guys making out on the street corner might be okay in Galveston, but it sure as hell isn't anything we want to see here in Hollywood!"
While that's amusing, IMO a Texas-based film industry is more likely to resemble a "700 Club" industry than the modern Gomorrah that is L.A. More-liberal people will still tend to migrate to the West Coast, not Galveston (or Austin). (That said, IDK how liberal Galveston was OTL. If it was anything like New Orleans, :eek:I with draw my remark.)
 
Pretty much as the tin says, the challenge is to make Texas the center of the US film industry rather than California and discuss the potential ramifications of it being based in Texas. I think Corpus Christi might make a nice alternative to LA/Hollywood in this regard. It's close enough to Mexico in a similar aspect as LA was.

So, let's say movie studios decide to set up shop in Texas, specifically Corpus Christi. How does that impact the industry and Texas?

Still too close to Edison and his Lawyers

http://mentalfloss.com/article/51722/thomas-edison-drove-film-industry-california
 
Galveston made New Orleans look straight-laced in the '20s and '30s, the Free State era.
I did not know about that. Thx.

It makes me think there's going to be a lot more pressure to introduce a production code, akin the Hayes Code--but the pre-Code films are going to be wild:eek: (& in high demand among later film buffs!:cool::cool:).
 
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