America takes Canada: Quebec Federalist or Democratic-Republican?

In your standard TL where the US takes Upper and Lower Canada and Nova Scotia in the ARW, and Quebec and Nova Scotia become the 14th and 15th colonies.

Presuming that the Washington administration and the outbreak of the French Revolutionary wars are roughly similar to OTL. Where does Quebec stand in the dispute between the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans?

Without any special knowledge or insight, I'm guessing that Quebec would be a Jeffersonian state. He favors more internal autonomy and a smaller federal government, which one presume Quebec would favor. He's anti-British and pro-French. I'm less certain how this tilts the Quebecois, since OTL I understand that they were solid royalists at this time and for decades afterwards. However, in an American Canada, one presumes the ideals of Republicanism would gain more purchase, and might open Quebec up to pro-French and hence Jeffersonian sentiment.

Is the outcome of an American Canada a Jeffersonian victory in 1796 and an early rematch with Britain?
 
Thats a massive presumption. With Quebec, the constitution is gonna be really different. That is gonna affect party politics immensely. Although a yeoman farmer party versus an urban party will emerge. It could be different than more vs less state control.
 
Neither: it'd be dominated by a French ethnic nationalist part like the PQ, who unite rural and urban francophones against Anglo rule.
 
Neither: it'd be dominated by a French ethnic nationalist part like the PQ, who unite rural and urban francophones against Anglo rule.

In the 18th Century? That seems like a bit of an anachronism. I'm not aware of any French-Canadian political party even close to this early in OTL.
 
Neither: it'd be dominated by a French ethnic nationalist part like the PQ, who unite rural and urban francophones against Anglo rule.

Cute assumptions about my people.

Now, there was the Patriots in 1837, which show some ideas for you guys to use.
 
Neither: it'd be dominated by a French ethnic nationalist part like the PQ, who unite rural and urban francophones against Anglo rule.

What Anglo rule? The Constitution as it was originally interpreted prior to the Civil War would let Quebec make French the language of the state government and make the Roman Catholic Church the state church.
 
Cute assumptions about my people.

Now, there was the Patriots in 1837, which show some ideas for you guys to use.

It's not a specific assumption about your people. If it was one English colony in a union with thirteen French colonies it would be the same.

In a democracy, when has a group of people speaking one language not resented having a government over them mainly of people speaking another language? Particularly when the two peoples were only recently at war...
 
Democratic-Republican. State's rights and pro-French.
The only way Quebec would even go Federalist in an election is if, say, Lafayette settled down there afterwards and was elected to the Presidency on the Federalist ticket from Quebec.
 
Bi-lingualism in the US

Also what people seem to fail to realize that up until the late 19th century certain states successfully passed bi-lingual requirements in education and law. Certain notable examples include German for Ohio in 1839, Luisianna for French in 1847 and New Mexico territory for Spanish in 1850. In fact the only groups that were discriminated against learning and using their native toungue from the get go were Native Americans.

Of course the clear exception of having Quebec and Nova Scotia having a majority in non-English speakers rather then merely a sizable minority. It would perhaps mean the argument against bi-lingual education that became so popularized in the late 19th and early 20th century could be sidetracked if no other major events occure due to their inclusion.
 
Democratic Republican, as their economy is very rural and agriculture oriented. Also, the Democratic Republicans were the ones who looked favorably on France when it came to foreign policy during the Napoleonic Wars.
 
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