Survival prospects of Austria-Bohemia

Let's say we've got the standard 'Stalemate in WWI but Austria-Hungary still falls apart due to internal difficulties' scenario, with Austria pushing through a seperate parliament for Bohemia creating in effect a new Dual Monarchy. In such a scenario, assuming that Bohemia starts passing laws to help the Czechs and so forth, is the German minority in Bohemia enough to ensure a sizable base/bring round enough Czechs that will continue to support union with Austria?
 
Let's say we've got the standard 'Stalemate in WWI but Austria-Hungary still falls apart due to internal difficulties' scenario, with Austria pushing through a seperate parliament for Bohemia creating in effect a new Dual Monarchy. In such a scenario, assuming that Bohemia starts passing laws to help the Czechs and so forth, is the German minority in Bohemia enough to ensure a sizable base/bring round enough Czechs that will continue to support union with Austria?

I would say yes. I get the impression that the Czechs during this time period were relatively (RELATIVELY) Germanised for a Slavic people. This is largely because due to the more industrialised nature of Bohemia and to a lesser extent Moravia, the Austrians invested a lot more and the local population was more well-educated than most Eastern Europeans. The ethnic German (Sudetendeutsch) population was quite large, and we can assume that Germanisation would continue in a way that it did in Slovenia. Even though those laws would be easy on the Czechs, we can still assume that they would be second-class citizens and that educated Czechs would be very Germanised (German was the language of intellectuals in Eastern Europe, and to a lesser extent French). Although there may be some more resentment in Moravia, I think Austro-Bohemia could stay together relatively easily, with not many leaders of an independence movement. I see the Czechoslovak independence movement as dying away, as the (independent in this scenario, right?) Slovaks, who are considered quite backward become more and more separate to the Czechs in outlook, mainly due to the more urbane, educated Czech outlook compared to the conservative, rural Slovaks. With the Czechs having similar rights to the Austrians, we may see A-B becoming more liberal, maybe a constitutional monarchy?
 
The problem of this scenario is to get the Czechs into accepting being part of Austria-Bohemia.

To assure this, extensive laws must be in place that preserve Czech language and autonomy in the state. Therefore, "Germanization" won't happen in its usual sense. Czech language will persist and Czech self-identification will as well. However, all Czechs will be fluent in German, but also many Germans will learn Czech.
 
The last hope for Bohemia accepting to remain part of a Habsburg empire died with Franz Ferdinand, his choice to marry Countess Chotek, who, while not of royal descent and thus disliked at the court in Vienna, came from an old, pre White Mountain czech noble family and their decision to spend most of their time away from the court in Vienna at Konopiště castle made them quite popular in Bohemia. The same does not hold true for Karl and his wife Zita.

Another important factor is that from the 19th century Czech National Revival onward there was a distinct degermanisation process occuring in central Bohemia rather than vice versa, e.g. in 1780 nearly 80% of Prague's population regarded themselves as native german speakers, by the 1850s around 50%, in 1880 20%, in 1910 8.8% and in 1930 with a total of 42.000 native german speakers the percentage was down to 5%; from 1883 on Prague's representatives in the diet were exclusively czechs.
 
if austria and czechia divorce each other the german parts of bohemia would definitely go to austria, which means that czechia would be practically enveloped by austria, making it economically nearly completely dependant on it.

might as well join fully and get a special treatment.
 
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