Whether how Canada joins let's not talk it here, but assuming Canada success in joining the American side, would Catholic influence in government be better? And how would that change things?
Whether how Canada joins let's not talk it here, but assuming Canada success in joining the American side, would Catholic influence in government be better? And how would that change things?
Definitely not. The US has never been overly tolerant of Catholicism, but inheriting some (depending on the era) half a million French speaking Catholics who have entrenched their views and political power over a century?
If anything it will be worse for Catholics as the government tries to mitigate their power and the average American would be apathetic at best and outright intolerant at worst.
States did have laws relaxing discrimination against Catholics.
I don't see how those would effect any potential state of "Quebec" and defeat the impression in American minds that they would be the pawns of Rome.
I read a lot of threads on that topic, and they all say that there are solutions if done right.
Just give Quebec an ATL American Quebec Act.
The question is would they keep Quebec as a separate state or join it with the Anglo population to dilute the voting power of the Catholics?
I read a lot of threads on that topic, and they all say that there are solutions if done right.
Just give Quebec an ATL American Quebec Act.
The Quebec Act is the biggest reason why the Americans rebelled against the Crown in the first place. In the minds of the colonists, they fought a war against France...only for the Frenchie Catholics to keep the land after the war and bar any speculators who have already 'sold' land from entering the new territories. Taxation without representation, and the other 'Intolerable Acts' pale in comparison. Thus an American Quebec Act is not going to happen.
If anything, Quebec would end up like Louisiana and Northern Mexico OTL.