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Re: [OT] Invading America

From: "Brian Bilderback" <bbilderback@h...>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 07:29:31 -0700
Subject: Re: [OT] Invading America

>From: John Sowerby <sowerbyj@fiu.edu>

>One set of ideas I do like is from Harry Turtledove. In a world where
the 
>CSA won at Antietam, and then won again 10 years later with the aid of
the 
>French and British, the Great War opens out on the US continent with
the 
>USA fighting with the Germans / Austrians, and the CSA alongside the 
>British and French.

Given the number of German immigrants in the North, and the British
cultural 
heritage of the South, I find that culturally plausible but politically 
distasteful.  Of course being pro-Germany in WWI doesn't rankle me quite
the 
way it would in WWII.

3B^2

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