These Fair Shores: The Commonwealth of New England
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It's tantamount to ethnic cleansing. The Rhineland was one of the most population-dense places in Europe even in the early 1800s and a near absolute of them were German/German Speaking. To have been reduced to a minority language in simply a century implies more than just a few language policies and their consequences.
To be fair, this is par for the course for even OTL France when dealing with non-francophones in their territory. It's still not great, though.
IRL, Corsican went from having a 85% transmission rate to a 30% one in the span of 20 years between 1914 and 1934;
Many studies of turn of the century/early 20th french languages report that families where the younger siblings couldn’t speak the local language while the older sibling of the same familly could were a common occurrences.
Transmission breakdown can happen very quickly within a generation. And once there is a transmission breakdown you just have to wait a lifetime to see an extremely quick collapse of speakers of a language, this has affected many languages and still affects many languages, the first generation after a quick transmission breakdown usually keeps a good level of passive understanding but is rarely comfortable with using their ancestral language for everyday life’s
IRL quick Gallicisation affected most peripherical french cities uniformly (with some exceptions) from the start of the third republic and urban inter generational transmission of local languages had mostly stopped by 1900, the Rhineland being very urbanised, and considering TFS France was more politically stable and developped. I think it’s plausible such transmissions breakdown had been accomplished in the Rhineland by 1900, add 40 years and the working population is mostly francophone.
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It feel like every nation has something to poorly and horrible in at entire existence since the POD.
France held control of the territory for quite some time, and as TheKutKu had pointed out, the transition period over to French was pretty rapid, especially once you consider French language policies. The share has been declining since then, but the Rhineland has protections for French speakers so it's unlikely to return to monolingual any time soon.
There was also this factor, yeah. A lot of French families moved into the Rhineland in the 1800s.
The climate is a-changing
Only time will tell...
I wouldn't say that, no more than the ups and downs nations and people experiance IRL
The Russians are apologizing for their Anti-Semitism, wow. What happened to New Orleans and Houston?
New Orleans was flooded after the river control system failed. Not sure about Houston though.
It was on the frontlines of the war with the British Empire, but maybe some of the population will return gradually.
New Orleans was hit by a double whammy of the river control system failing (through attacks and lack of maintenance), and a hurricane hitting it shortly after the control system actually completely failed. Houston lost population due to another hurricane, mixed with estimated movement from the warfare and fighting.
It was on the frontline of the war with the British Empire. Much of the city was destroyed, and the people fled as quickly as they could while the city wasn't surrounded. It was pretty much flattened, and it'll be a lot to rebuild it.
The SUP should meet the United Party, Holstein’s electoral mode seems very Vermont-coded
