politically-correct?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_the_Beautiful

 I forgot to ask, but who kept changing the words to the song?
Alabaster cities (where?) I always thought, maybe from watching a video, that the statue of Liberty was involved. Boy was I wrong.
"whiter jubilee" o...k

Could this have been a thought or a memory or an inspiration for
"Bioshock Infinite"??

If I could be allowed to drift off for a second...
The original words "O beautiful for Halcyon skies" which means, the pleasant way things used to be.
Now she (the author) could have been speaking about the pristine skies above Pike's Peak, in contrast to the smog in cities. But I wonder if she realized that she was living in what most people call the belle epoque, before the biggie wars and dirty cities. No, she might have been thinking of her own antebellum epoque, in (maybe) 1859 or so.

Halcyon vs spacious, hmm
Fruited vs enameled.

I'm confused.
(Why did they change words, or was it accidental?)

I'd have to buy a book to find out

I'll read the reddit version, if there is one.

Why are all "patriots" republican and survivalists? (sorry, nothing to do with the poem, more like commercials on TV.)

https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/17f96m1/mariah_carey_singing_america_the_beautiful_before/

Google AI refers to the "racially charged" third verse. I'm assuming that they meant the first two versions.
But the last version of the third verse goes on about refining gold... I don't really understand.

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Fireworks!! It's Xmas.
(Lol)

Bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night, that we are still here.