social and technical changes of the world up to 1946
The Confederate States of america is a conservative nation where chnage is delibritaly slowed. The white man is obviously in charge in this nation. Blacks,american indians and mexicans have to have internal passports. THe CSA is a national security state with subjects ranging from abortion,social democracy and ending prohibition beign verboten to mention in te news on radio,TV or the papers. Industrialization is slow to come to the CSA but it comes anyway. The CSA technically has freedom of religion but for all intents and purposes the southern baptist church is the ONLY religion. Even thoguh the constitution states that no religion is to be established, southern baptist leaders are given influence in congress and a veto on lawss. Socialism or even social democracy are taboo in the CSA because of a unionist taint and the connection with the poor. Political dissidents are sent to prison with hard labor,torture and execution being common punishments for minor offenses. Women only got te vote in 1940 in the CSA, which is 30 years behind the union. The CSA calls the USA and canada "a bunch of godless commies" and the USA calls them "Idiot capitolist bible thumpers"(this shows the love
). Science fiction and fantasy are so unpopular with the governemtn that in the CSA, Heinlein and tolkein are a few of many banned authors. President Strom Thurmond is presiding over a nation that is despised y everyone else on the north american continent so things will be tense especially with a secessionist party thats formed in the far western(mexican) states of the CSA. In this timeline rock music will be a yankee thign as a large black population has moved north.
the USA is a nation that is the most liberla in the world. Social democratic policies like a 40 hours workweek,national healthcare and welfare are either implemented or are beign planned. The USA is far more socially liberla with no prohibition being done. Marijuana and other drugs are legal and are gaining acceptance in society. The Union is a nation that believes that technology is the future. Race relations between white and black are far better than OTL. One side effect of this is that the same acceptance of hispanic-white intermarriage that happened post 1950's of OTL will also happen with black and asian marriages. America in this universe follows the path of liberal socialism with the rest of its allies around the world doing so. Science fiction is far more popular in the 1946 of this than OTL's west with one exception, the CSA. The society's zeitgeist is at the point where by 1970 they predict a black or president at soem point. The young local New York representitive and born of a former slave Martin Lithor King jr whose family emigrated from the CSA before he was born is a rising star and he might run for president someday after he gets to be 35... Rock Music won't form south of the border but it will arrive as a union invention.
The cold war in this timeline will be less tense than the one between the USA/USSR because both are capitolist. Japanese culture like anime and manga will be part of the counterculture so it will filter into america a little bit earleir thna IOTL but slower. THings will be tense in the 50's and early 60's but from that point on the cold war is calmer with detente until Japan's empire collapses in a soft landing in 1991. On a side note there won't be the flourishing of japanse pop culture in the 90's-2000's because the stuff will have been available for a longer time. With a right-wing enemy america will go on a more leftist slant so imagine Fidel Castro ando ther lefttis radiclas in south america getting aid and troops. Central america and at least western south america have better economies than OTL because of the foreing aid,alliance of the USA and no drug war. Being that the USA and CSA are on opposite sides of the codl war thier two cultures will diverge farther and farther....
some notable dates for inventions up to 1946
1890-first submachine gun is invented
1901-first airplane flown
1915-first tank invented
1919-talking motion picture invented
1924-transistor invented and patented
1926-first jet airplane flown
1933-first cigarship invented
1938-ENIAC computer system put online
1942-K-3 missile invented(think primitive ICBM)
1943-first saucerfjet plane flown