How can I change the CurrentCulture of the entire process (not just current thread) in .Net?

I have a situation where I need to set my process' locale to en-US.

I know how to do this for the current thread:

System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = 
     System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US");

But my application uses BackgroundWorkers to do some processing, and the locale for these worker threads seems not to be affected by the above change to their spawning main-thread.

So how can I set the locale for all the threads in my application without setting it in each one manually?