It's not intentional. I like them enough to give them a presence at all; realistically, there would probably be zero German speakers left in Texas, as almost no youth in rural Euro-American minority communities still speak their native languages today (Cajuns, Acadians, Texas Germans, etc., with Anabaptist groups as the very notable exception), and what few speakers are left would just get swept away by the suburbanite refugees. But that's not very fun for a unique worldbuilding setting, so I've tried to give the local linguistic minorities a second chance. The Texas Germans are at least still politically and militarily organized, and are keeping up the fight against an increasingly hard-pressed Aztlan. One of the more prominent supporting characters in the novel is a Texas German who went north to the Evangelical American Republic along with a big convoy of religiously-motivated Lutherans.
As for the destruction of Texas, it's a combination of luck (me, the author, selectively sparing a few cities) and the fact that Texas is really spread out and has a decent number of cities that are large, but not large enough to warrant getting nuked, and lack any standout features like military bases, power plants, dams, major federal government centers, et cetera. Midland and Amarillo are kind of on the verge of what would realistically get nuked, but I chose to make Amarillo a secondary target and let the Midland-Odessa Petroplex survive. Despite all the problems it's still suffering, Texas got off relatively easy from the Great War. Some states, like Virginia, North Dakota, and South Carolina, have very little left.
Ace of spades is just cobson.
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Texas looks like it wasn't hit very badly, I recognize a lot of these cities' names. Kind of coal that you consistently screw over germans though
It's not intentional. I like them enough to give them a presence at all; realistically, there would probably be zero German speakers left in Texas, as almost no youth in rural Euro-American minority communities still speak their native languages today (Cajuns, Acadians, Texas Germans, etc., with Anabaptist groups as the very notable exception), and what few speakers are left would just get swept away by the suburbanite refugees. But that's not very fun for a unique worldbuilding setting, so I've tried to give the local linguistic minorities a second chance. The Texas Germans are at least still politically and militarily organized, and are keeping up the fight against an increasingly hard-pressed Aztlan. One of the more prominent supporting characters in the novel is a Texas German who went north to the Evangelical American Republic along with a big convoy of religiously-motivated Lutherans.
As for the destruction of Texas, it's a combination of luck (me, the author, selectively sparing a few cities) and the fact that Texas is really spread out and has a decent number of cities that are large, but not large enough to warrant getting nuked, and lack any standout features like military bases, power plants, dams, major federal government centers, et cetera. Midland and Amarillo are kind of on the verge of what would realistically get nuked, but I chose to make Amarillo a secondary target and let the Midland-Odessa Petroplex survive. Despite all the problems it's still suffering, Texas got off relatively easy from the Great War. Some states, like Virginia, North Dakota, and South Carolina, have very little left.