SpudNutimus
I make maps and things.
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What are some overdone tropes and bits of alternate history which you think actually deserve to be as popular as they are? Concepts which are commonly seen in amateur work but nonetheless still valuable on their own at face value without too much additional subversion or finicking. I'll start with some of mine:
- American Cuba (but ONLY when done properly and fleshed out instead of just "Cuba is a state now, let's never mention it again")
- Texas remains an independent nation (once again, ONLY when done properly, for example portraying it as a late-stage slave power or petrostate instead of just "look how cool independent Texas is!")
- Socialist uprisings in the Gilded Age United States (these are more of a stretch than "Teddy Roosevelt never takes office and everything stays terrible" as they're often portrayed, but they can still be interesting and well-done)
- Newborn United States falls apart after a failed Constitutional Convention
- Victorious Confederacy turns into a mainland Haiti
- Texas and/or California are admitted to the Union as/split into multiple smaller states
- American Baja California/Sonora (as opposed to all of Northern Mexico or, God forbid, all of Mexico)
- Unified state of Dakota
- State of Franklin/Frankland/East Tennessee after the American Civil War
- State of Sequoyah (something of a stretch but not impossible)
- American purchase of Greenland