This was the Point of No Return for America
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In the 1990's, Disney was planning to build a theme park in Virginia themed specifically around Walt Disney's reflections on American history. It was going to have segments on life in colonial America, the Civil War, the frontier, the industrial revolution, the World Wars, and a state fair.
It was cancelled due to leftist outrage (and the failure of Disney Paris, which left the company short on money).
I've thought for a while that, had that park been built, it might have signaled a reverse back towards a new sense of civic pride. But the leftists wouldn't even allow that much to exist.
The way I heard it, Colonial Williamsburg, King's Dominion, and Busch Gardens didn't want the competition and managed to keep Disney out.
That's the story I got growing up in VA around that time.