1948IW

1948: Identity War (often abbreviated to 1948 IW) is an Alternate-History mod created by Efficient_Concert403. The mod takes place in an alternative timeline where President Franklin D. Roosevelt does not replace Henry Wallace with Harry Truman as his running mate at the 1944 DNC. As is what happened in real life, Roosevelt dies in 1945 and Henry Wallace takes the office of President, he is subsequently renominated at the 1948 DNC following a primary challenge by Senator (and real-life Vice President of Harry Truman) Alben Barkley. The Republican Nominee is conservative isolationist Robert Taft, and like in real life, Southern Democrats run Strom Thurmond as a southerner splinter candidate under the States' Rights. Canonically the election is deadlocked, with Henry Wallace only winning with the defection of a single elector from Taft's home state of Ohio. The mod was coincidentally released on the same day as Tom's 1948Red, a mod with a similar premise of Henry Wallace not being replaced by Franklin Roosevelt in 1944. 1948IW is often considered the most controversial mod in the history of TCT, attracting widespread criticism for the usage of censored slurs in Strom Thurmond's side of the mod, an uncensored anti-Japanese slur in Henry Wallace's side, and for the generally unrealistic portrayal of segregationists and Henry Wallace. Thurmond's side of the mod was removed from the mod loader two days after release for the usage of various censored slurs, and on May 24th, 2023 the entire mod was removed from the mod loader by Astro for the usage of slurs on Wallace's side of the mod. It has been promised that the mod will be put back on the mod loader in the case that all slurs are removed from the mod, although the creators of 1948IW have rejected these overtures.