Photos from Featherston's Confederacy/ TL-191
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I am pretty surprised that in Richmond was any blacks living anymore in 1943 unless it is some another Richmond not Richmond, Virginia.
It's Richmond, Virginia. https://turtledove.fandom.com/wiki/Richmond_Ghetto_Uprising
Soldiers of the U.S. 17th Infantry Division make their way through the ruins of Salt Lake City; circa January, 1943. With the third (and presumbably final) Mormon Rebellion crushed, the U.S. could shift some additional forces to quell the Candadian Uprising (though a good chunk would go to General Morrell to aid in liberating Ohio). The 17th Division in particular would be sent north , and by the Spring of 1943 would contribute to the siege of Winnipeg.
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I could see a similar policy with Native Americans from both countries. The US and CS may try to keep their Natives away from contact so that they don't become too friendly.
In 1939, President of the United States, Al Smith, believing it would help bolster retail sales during one of the final years of the Great Depression, moved the date of Thanksgiving one week earlier than its usual date. The mayor of Atlantic City, Charles D. White, coined the term Smithsgiving. This plan was met with opposition by the Democrats and some Socialists. Hebert Hoover had called the plan "another illustration of the confusion which [Smith's] impulsiveness has caused so frequently during his administration. If the change has any merit at all, more time should have been taken working it out... instead of springing it upon an unprepared country with the omnipotence of a Featherston." [1]
On Thanksgiving day, 1939, several states chose to celebrate the different dates, with some pundits and historians giving the term of the controversy "Socialist Thanksgiving" and "Democratic Thanksgiving." However, Colorado and Houston chose to celebrate on both dates.
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In 1940, while Al Smith was narrowly re-elected, many state governors, including Kentucky and Houston, chose to celebrate the moved date.
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The debate was ignored during the Second Great War, as states chose the traditional date. However, in 1942, most states chose the new date to remember Al Smith in light of his death in February of that year. As one of Charles W. La Follote's last actions in office, Thanksgiving was moved back to its traditional date.
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1. A quote from Alf Landon in otl, replaced was FDR in Smith's place, and Hitler in Featherston's place.
2. Apologies if the Arkansas, Virginia, and Houston borders aren't fully accurate.
On Thanksgiving day, 1939, several states chose to celebrate the different dates, with some pundits and historians giving the term of the controversy "Socialist Thanksgiving" and "Democratic Thanksgiving." However, Colorado and Houston chose to celebrate on both dates.
[2]
In 1940, while Al Smith was narrowly re-elected, many state governors, including Kentucky and Houston, chose to celebrate the moved date.
[2]
The debate was ignored during the Second Great War, as states chose the traditional date. However, in 1942, most states chose the new date to remember Al Smith in light of his death in February of that year. As one of Charles W. La Follote's last actions in office, Thanksgiving was moved back to its traditional date.
References
1. A quote from Alf Landon in otl, replaced was FDR in Smith's place, and Hitler in Featherston's place.
2. Apologies if the Arkansas, Virginia, and Houston borders aren't fully accurate.
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Zehner's Chicken Restaurant in Frankenmuth, Michigan. One of the largest restaurants in the US and founded in 1856, the owner of the restaurant pledged in the local newspaper the morning after Operation Blackbeard began that he would destroy it if the CSA seemed on the verge of taking the town, declaring "I will not feed Featherston's barbarians."
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Coca Cola was one of the Confederacy's most recognizable brands and iconic exports. The drink was first created by Colonel John Pemberton, a veteran of the war of secession, and it quickly became the most popular soft drink in the Confederacy. By the 1920s Coke had become a worldwide phenomenon, as it was sold in places as far away as China and the Ottoman Empire, and the Coca Cola corporation was one of the most valuable companies in the Confederacy. The Coke syrup was produced in Georgia, while several plants around the world operated under a franchise model and used the syrup to produce the drink itself. Production of Coca Cola was also a major part of the Confederacy's industralization, as several bottling plants were opened in southern cities such as Nashville, Chattanooga, and Vicksburg.
A Coca Cola plant in Alabama
During the Featherston regime and the Second Great War, Coca Cola advertisements served as a major source for Freedomite propoganda. Several posters encouraged citizens to contribute to the war effort and support Jake Featherston, and depicted Confederate heroes such as Stonewall Jackson in order to improve morale. In addition, Coca Cola was sent to soldiers on the front lines. Black forced labor was used in several plants during the Population Reductions, where many were worked to death.
A Coca Cola ad with Stonewall Jackson printed during the SGW
Coca Cola did not survive the end of the Confederacy. US bombing raids had destroyed much of the plants and infastructure used to create Coca Cola in the South, and the formula for Coca Cola syrup was lost in the chaos of war. During the occupation, the remaining facilities that were once owned by the Coca Cola Corporation were dismantled and sent North during the Southern deindustrialization.
Despite its demise, Coca Cola still lingers on in the cultural memory in the North and the South, and an obcession over recreating the iconic taste remains. Rumors abound that President Dewey ordered US soldiers to scour the ruins of Atlanta in search of the secret formula. In the independent CSA today, several companies produce soda under the "Coca Cola" label, though these drinks do not come close to the original flavor. Several fake recipies purporting to be the "lost formula" for the drink occassionally spread over the internet. The most infamous was a 4Chan hoax in 2022 that spread widely on TicTak, resulting in the hospitalization of over thirty people in both the USA and CSA.
The taste of Coca Cola is something that will forever be lost to time.
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Boston Red Sox's own Ted Williams featuring in one of Moxie's most well known posters from the 1950s
Prior to the Great War, much of the soda market in the americas was dominated by CSA based companies like Coca-Cola and Pepsi, a fact that many were not happy about. The Moxie Company dates its origins back to 1876, where former union soilder turned physician Augustin Thompson of Lowell, Massachusetts began selling a "Nerve Food" he claimed could help the consumer protect their helath against "paralysis, softening of the brain, nervousness, and insomnia", all thanks to a rare South American plant we now know to be gentian root. While it struggled against its largest southron competors, it would eventually establish itself as a popular alternitve and regional favourite across New England and Maine in particualr. Moxies true big break would come with the outbreak of the First Great War and the American publics sudden rejection of the formerly popular southron brands, seizing on Moxie as a proper patriotic drink to quench their thirsts with. And while brands like Coca-cola and Pepsi would return to shelves after the war, they were never able to capture anywhere near the same market share they'd previously enjoyed. Following the Second Great War and the destruction of the Cola-cola company, Moxie would be among many of the companies to snatch many of the surviving assets of their devastated competitors, from bottling plants to varient flavour formulas. So popular and well known in the american zetigesit, the term Moxie has come to synomous with the concepts of energy, determination, and daringness.
Comic book ad (date unknown) featuring one of many reinterpretations of the pointing Moxie Man, this time re-styled as a dance hall singer in order to help build appeal with an emerging youth demigraphic
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Coca Cola was one of the Confederacy's most recognizable brands and iconic exports. The drink was first created by Colonel John Pemberton, a veteran of the war of secession, and it quickly became the most popular soft drink in the Confederacy. By the 1920s Coke had become a worldwide phenomenon, as it was sold in places as far away as China and the Ottoman Empire, and the Coca Cola corporation was one of the most valuable companies in the Confederacy. The Coke syrup was produced in Georgia, while several plants around the world operated under a franchise model and used the syrup to produce the drink itself. Production of Coca Cola was also a major part of the Confederacy's industralization, as several bottling plants were opened in southern cities such as Nashville, Chattanooga, and Vicksburg.
A Coca Cola plant in Alabama
During the Featherston regime and the Second Great War, Coca Cola advertisements served as a major source for Freedomite propoganda. Several posters encouraged citizens to contribute to the war effort and support Jake Featherston, and depicted Confederate heroes such as Stonewall Jackson in order to improve morale. In addition, Coca Cola was sent to soldiers on the front lines. Black forced labor was used in several plants during the Population Reductions, where many were worked to death.
A Coca Cola ad with Stonewall Jackson printed during the SGW
Coca Cola did not survive the end of the Confederacy. US bombing raids had destroyed much of the plants and infastructure used to create Coca Cola in the South, and the formula for Coca Cola syrup was lost in the chaos of war. During the occupation, the remaining facilities that were once owned by the Coca Cola Corporation were dismantled and sent North during the Southern deindustrialization.
Despite its demise, Coca Cola still lingers on in the cultural memory in the North and the South, and an obcession over recreating the iconic taste remains. Rumors abound that President Dewey ordered US soldiers to scour the ruins of Atlanta in search of the secret formula. In the independent CSA today, several companies produce soda under the "Coca Cola" label, though these drinks do not come close to the original flavor. Several fake recipies purporting to be the "lost formula" for the drink occassionally spread over the internet. The most infamous was a 4Chan hoax in 2022 that spread widely on TicTak, resulting in the hospitalization of over thirty people in both the USA and CSA.
The taste of Coca Cola is something that will forever be lost to time.
Boston Red Sox's own Ted Williams featuring in one of Moxie's most well known posters from the 1950s
Prior to the Great War, much of the soda market in the americas was dominated by CSA based companies like Coca-Cola and Pepsi, a fact that many were not happy about. The Moxie Company dates its origins back to 1876, where former union soilder turned physician Augustin Thompson of Lowell, Massachusetts began selling a "Nerve Food" he claimed could help the consumer protect their helath against "paralysis, softening of the brain, nervousness, and insomnia", all thanks to a rare South American plant we now known to be gentian root. While it struggled against its largest southron competors, it would eventually establish itself as a popular alternitve and regional favourite across New England and Maine in particualr. Moxies real big break would come with the outbreak of the First Great War and the publics sudden rejection of the formerly popular southron brands, seizing on Moxie as a proper patriotic drink to quench their thirsts with. And while brands like Coca-cola and Pepsi would return to shelves after the war, they were never able to seize the same market share they'd previously enjoyed. Following the Second Great War and the destruction of the Cola-cola company, Moxie would be among many of the compnaies able top snatch many of the surviving assets of the companies, from bottling plants to varient flavour formulas. So popular and well known in the american zetigesit, the term Moxie has come to synomous with the concepts of energy, determination, and daringness.
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Comic book ad (date unknown) featuring one of many reinterpretations of the pointing Moxie Man, this time re-styled as a dance hall singer in order to help build appeal with an emergin youth demigraphic
Cool stuff I have been wondering what the popular soft drinks would be in 191's world.
In OTL 1940, Fanta came as a result of the American embargo on Germany in the Nazi era. I don't think Fanta would exist in TTL unless the Germans want to come up with a soda that will replace the lost Coca-Cola.
Given that it was invented by Coca Cola Germany as a response to trade with the US being cut off, I doubt it.
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Given TL-191 blatant disregard for Butterflies, there’s probably some way to giggle the history of Fanta around to make it fit, like having it be a replacement for Moxie due to British/French interference with imports to Germany. That said, Fanta as we know it today is much different to WW2 Fanta, where it was used more as a sweetener in cooking in place of highly rationed sugar rather then a beverage and the orange soda only really coming about as a result of the opening a bottling plant in Naples. So TL-191 Fanta might be Italian
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Since Coca Cola was a worldwide company which had facilities in Germany, Fanta could be created as a replacement for the Confederate soda during the Second Great War
Second Great War German poster promoting Fanata.
Trade between the CSA and Germany stalled following the CSA's declaration of war on Germany in 1941. Max Keith, the head of Coca-Cola Deutschland (Coca-Cola GmbH), decided to create a new product for the German market, using only ingredients available in Germany at the time, including sugar beet, whey (a cheese byproduct), and apple pomace. The name of the product came from a brainstorming session, which started with Keith's encouraging his team to "use their imagination" (Fantasie in German), to which one of his salesmen, Joe Knipp, retorted, "Fanta!" Production was slow due to Entente advancement into Germany, but production was completed in early 1944. Worldwide production would begin in the mid-1950s. Today, Fanta is one of the largest soft drink companies in the world.
Fanta logo (1955-present).
Nice soda write up are you doing ones for Pepsi and Doctor Pepper or Dr. Hopper as it is called in the books
Columbia, South Carolina, after its fall in the Second Great War, ca. late 1944.