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World History: Flight of the Spanish Dominicans

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Footnotes​
  • Floridian Spanish specifically refers to the type of Spanish that has developed in the Floridas, but particularly East Florida.
  • The island of Hispaniola is referred to as Haiti in TTL; after the Treaty of Valencia, the French decreed the island would no longer be referred to as Hispaniola (deemed as harkening to Spanish rule) as part of La politique de francisation d'Haïti. Instead, French authorities began referring to the island as Haïti, a name based on the native Taino word for the island. In the present day, the island is known universally as Haiti, however, it's inhabitants are known as Dominicans or dominicaines.
  • The Dominican Kingdom is a present day country encompassing the entirety of the OTL island of Hispaniola .
  • Franconisation is TTL's (American) English word for policies which seek to make an area decidedly more French.
  • Jean-Paul Gerard Rochette is a fictional figure who was Colonial Governor of France's Saint-Domingue Colony from 1711-43.
  • A general note is that both Spanish Florida and Spanish Hispaniola had more Spanish settlers in TTL's 1702 than in OTL.
  • Colorado refers to the country north of Mexico that separated after the fall of the First Mexican Empire.
  • As mentioned earlier, East Florida had a larger Spanish population ITTL's 1702 as opposed to in OTL - with it being considered far less valuable than Haiti, France determined East Florida would be the location where Spanish speakers in other parts of the empire (namely Haiti) would be sent to. The move bolstered the Spanish population of East Florida further, and East Florida under the French (1702-54) became largely autonomous.
  • Espiritu Santo is roughly OTL Tampa, while Espiritu Santo Bay (Bahia del Espiritu Santo) is OTL Tampa Bay.
  • Floridian-Dominicans are largely indistinguishable from other Spanish Floridians, but due pervasive tracking of ones descent, continue to be recognized as a separate group within East Florida.
  • The OTL city of Santo Domingo is the TTL capital of the Dominican Kingdom and is universally known as Saint-Domingue; in 2020 it is home to ~1,430,203 (commune)/~4,549,392 (metro) making it the largest city in the country, the second largest city of all the Antilles and the largest metropolitan area of all the Caribbean islands. The island of Haiti is the most populous island in the Caribbean at ~25M (about 5M more people than OTL) with nearly half of the entire population of the Antilles living on the island.
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