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My question is rather simple: if somehow OTL US and Canada joined in some early stage to form one big United States, could French have survived as the dominant language of Quebec? It doesn't matter how or why they join, but is the survival of a dominant language different than English possible in a US state, the way US history progressed? I've read an unverified fact about Louisiana, that it was supposed to be French-majority, or at least French-dominated when it joined the Union. This might not be true, I don't know. But either way, French is a very small language there now (4%, I think), so it barely survives.

After all Canada is also massively English majority, so if it could happen there, why not within the United States?
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