Re: [OT] Invading America
From: Glenn M Wilson <triphibious@j...>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 11:35:22 EDT
Subject: Re: [OT] Invading America
On Thu, 30 May 2002 07:29:31 -0700 "Brian Bilderback"
<bbilderback@hotmail.com> writes:
>>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.
>
See it begins, the change!
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