This is true. And (given their larger than OTL presence nearby) Francophones. Everyone wants the chance to get rich off gold, after all.
Maybe Germans or Poles too? Coming through Russia once the Transsiberian Railway is completed.
A Few Acres of Snow: A Map and Graphic Timeline
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Maybe Germans or Poles too? Coming through Russia once the Transsiberian Railway is completed.
Yes I think there would probably be a lot of waves of migration from different places with all the various gold rushes, with many of the immigrants then leaving and some staying, along with a larger and more permanent wave of migration of White Russian refugees fleeing the Russian Revolution (and possibly other minority groups from the Russian Empire - in addition to the famous plan to settle Jewish refugees in Alaska that inspired The Yiddish Policemen's Union, I'm kicking myself that I only just found out about the proposal to create a New Finland in Alaska after finishing the map).
Retcon, January 2024
Happy new year, all! As is my typical bad habit, after much agonizing I've decided to make some retcons. France was now on the winning side of the Great Wars and is still a great power. The posts on the First Great War and the list of French monarchs should now be considered non-canon, and Canada no longer has its Caribbean and Pacific territories. The first page is updated with a new world map but that should still be considered subject to change in Europe, Africa, and East Asia as I work out the new history more.
Map of Oregon
Motivated by @tae_will21's excellent new Changing of the Seasons TL (check it out!), here's AFAoS's own version of an independent Oregon:
New Jersualem - did the Mormons settle in Oregon ITTL?
EDIT: Looked up Nampa, Idaho on Wikipedia. Apparently the early settlers, while not Mormons, were very religious, so it got the nickname of New Jerusalem early in its history.
EDIT: Looked up Nampa, Idaho on Wikipedia. Apparently the early settlers, while not Mormons, were very religious, so it got the nickname of New Jerusalem early in its history.
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I really hope people there would still tell me to fuhgeddaboudit
How are linguistic and ethnic relations in California? I assume the Anglos mostly live in the north and Deseret.
God, is there a timeline without a Mormon state? In addition, it looks like California will be largely an English-speaking state.
Yes, roughly speaking Shasta, Nevada, and Deseret are majority Anglo, San Francisco and Tulare are mixed, and Los Padres, Colorado, and Baja are majority Hispano (though all have minorities from the "other" side).
For the first few decades after independence, power was rotated between the northern Anglo businessmen and southern Californio landowners, then after the turn of the century the Anglos increasingly consolidated power (aided by the Deseret Mormons gradually giving up some of their former autonomy and cooperating more with the Anglo mainstream) and imposed de facto segregation for the next few decades until it was ended by the Chicano Movement in the 60s and 70s. Since then California has been avowedly bilingual and multicultural (including smaller groups like indigenous peoples, the growing numbers of Asian immigrants, and the Russian settlers of the Shasta coast) a la OTL Canada, with all the continuing tensions that implies, both inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic (between Californios and Chicanos among Hispanos, and between Mormons and gentiles among Anglos).
What can I say, the Mormons are just too juicy to give up (and yes I know that Mormons shouldn't realistically exist in this timeline but I've never respected butterflies before and I'm not about to start).
Currently it's about even, with a lot riding on which group the Asian population swings towards.
Hey it's still Canada, they'd tell you to fuhgeddabootit, eh
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