Plainsian Cultural Revolution

## Great Plainsian Cultural Revolution

### Performers

Government of the Union of Socialist Republics of the PlainsUnited Communist Party of the Great Plains

Various mass organizations

### Location

Union of Socialist Republics of the Plains

**The Great Plainsian Cultural Revolution** was a period from 1990 to 2000 during which the government of the USRP, the Communist Party and a variety of affiliated mass organizations launched a massive effort against conservative values and to revitalize American Indian cultures. This materialized in a completely renewed education program that introduced radical feminism, tolerance of queerness, condemnation of conservatism, focus on the crimes of Manifest Destiny. The campaign is considered the pivotal moment for the formation of a unified Plainsian identity as opposed to American.

## HISTORY

The Middle West was considered a conservative region, inhabited by Christian farmers, but the efforts of the Red Bisons and Tough Riders, the Oil Crisis of the seventies and eighties and the Great Chemical Disaster in 1983 caused a radical shift to the CPUSA, which in the region was controlled by maoists. Dennis Frank, of the Indian National Movement, started to develop the idea of a Plainsian nation in the early 1980s, and, while it was originally a niche thought, the collapse of the United States between 1986 and 1988 made it mainstream. After, in 1988, the General Congress joined to declare the birth of the USRP, the new country had to be forged. While they had voted for the Communists, the farmers of the Midwest didn't become social progressives over night, and they still considered themselves American. The most shining example of this was in the western part of Idaho, were basically all of the population, collectively decided to split off as the Free Republic of Liberty under the guise of the Libertarian Party. The Plains had little to no standing army aside from the Red Bison and Tough Rider paramilitaries, and they failed to make large gains against Liberty, agreeing to a ceasefire in 1991.

In January 1990, the General Congress started to work on an ambitious set of actions to subvert reactionary sentiment in the country, revolutionazing education to the best of their capabilities and rebranding the whole country. The US Flag was banned, and any and all monument, road. square or city called in honor of someone who had participated in the genocide of Americans was renamed, including the capital city of Lincoln, renamed Tecumse, after a legendary leader of native resistance. Massive funding was given to foundations for the revitalization of Indigenous art, architecture and literature. This attracted numerous White artists, who got inspired to experiment with it and with blendings of the two cultures, creating an original Plainsian art. A large amount of land, based on some of the broken treaties of the 19th Century, creating for each ethnic group a different Socialist Republic. One of the most pivotal concepts that allowed the success of the Revolution was the attention at not colpevolizing White people (called "Riders", after the Tough Riders' Party), instead presenting the crimes of the USA and the heroic native resistance as a shared experience of the Plainsian nation. Still, backlash was inevitable, and the first years of the Revolution did see widespread protest and violence.

The key difference was that the section most opposed to the Revolution in the Plains was old people, who were both less strong and less able to use new technologies, their groups were local and easily dealt with by the militant Red Bisons. Until the mid nineties, only urban centers had access to the Freenet, so the Organization for the Restoration of America was initially confined to the small community of White suburbanites. When they did penetrate the rest of the country, they had lost the momentum of resentment and young people had began to accept and even enjoy the Plainsian identity. The ORA never achieved the level of success it had in the PUA or the North West, their only famous action was the failed assassination of Dennis Frank in 2001 in a dynamite attack, which killed 16 people.

The Revolution also saw increased acceptance of Queer people, with the legalization of gay marriage and adoption, sexual transition, the introduction of hate crime against them and the criminalization of hate speech.

A major part of the revolution was the rejection of the Old American culture and names, and thus multiple cities were renamed. The biggest was probably the renaming of the Capital, from Lincoln to Tecumseh, celebrating the Native resistance against colonization.

Some historians claim the revolution restart again after the Nuclear Bombings of 2010, though those are often called the Reconstruction period, or second revolution.

## Effect and outcome

The cultural revolution is widely regarded as very successful, as the vast majority of people in the USRP identity as Plainsians only, and abandon their old American label. The plains' culture is fundamentally socialist, with it even being commonly joked that you can see every Nationality in Las Vegas gambling, except Plainsians.

Plainsian architecture is also unique. It has been described as a mix of mid-century American and Native American. Plainsian cities have also **de-carified**, though not to the same degree as Evergreen.