DBWI: A smaller Union?

I imagine the Crown might resettle the Tories there, since it's a lot easier than relocating them to South Africa and the Caribbean. With Quebec still a British territory, they'll probably not be inclined to sell Rupert's land either.

I guess there's a Loyalist Dominion that forms above the smaller America.
 
What if Quebec, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland hadn't accepted the invitation to join the Union in 1776?

This is an interesting question, and could have gone several ways. Newfoundland, by the way, only joined the Union thanks to Jonathan Eddy's efforts. But what if Mr. Eddy hadn't traveled to St. John's in 1779?

I imagine the Crown might resettle the Tories there, since it's a lot easier than relocating them to South Africa and the Caribbean. With Quebec still a British territory, they'll probably not be inclined to sell Rupert's land either.

I guess there's a Loyalist Dominion that forms above the smaller America.

There was a really fascinating collaborative TL written back in the '90s with just that same premise: a "Canadian Confederation" forming where the states of Quebec, Ontario, Saint-Jean, Nova Scotia, Acadia, and later Ungavia were IOTL.
 
A monolingual union?

I am wondering: As without the French in Quebec and the Métiz in all three colonies, the remaining 13 lower colonies will all be not even majority but almost uniformly English speaking... Okay, I'm wondering: Without the northern French states, would the US be monolingual English, even have English as the official state language? Of course we would still have the massive immigration of German speaking people, but with just one language they might take up English as a lingua franca and forget about their ancestral language three generations down the road, just like the Gaelic Irish did. Of course we would still have to find a way to account for the Mexican Spanish... Perhaps only integrate the northern half of Texas and California... Leave the Baja California peninsula with Mexico and move the Texas frontier north to San Antonio?
 
I am wondering: As without the French in Quebec and the Métiz in all three colonies, the remaining 13 lower colonies will all be not even majority but almost uniformly English speaking... Okay, I'm wondering: Without the northern French states, would the US be monolingual English, even have English as the official state language? Of course we would still have the massive immigration of German speaking people, but with just one language they might take up English as a lingua franca and forget about their ancestral language three generations down the road, just like the Gaelic Irish did. Of course we would still have to find a way to account for the Mexican Spanish... Perhaps only integrate the northern half of Texas and California... Leave the Baja California peninsula with Mexico and move the Texas frontier north to San Antonio?



Don't forget about French speaking Louisiana.
 
I am wondering: As without the French in Quebec and the Métiz in all three colonies, the remaining 13 lower colonies will all be not even majority but almost uniformly English speaking... Okay, I'm wondering: Without the northern French states, would the US be monolingual English, even have English as the official state language? Of course we would still have the massive immigration of German speaking people, but with just one language they might take up English as a lingua franca and forget about their ancestral language three generations down the road, just like the Gaelic Irish did. Of course we would still have to find a way to account for the Mexican Spanish... Perhaps only integrate the northern half of Texas and California... Leave the Baja California peninsula with Mexico and move the Texas frontier north to San Antonio?

I wonder if Anti-Catholicism would be worse than OTL. I think that English would be used as a lingua franca, after all it is OTL and there'd be less of a reason to demand such.
 
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