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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?
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