Welsh speaking wales post industrial revolution

South Wales Welsh survives industrial revolution

If you have the industrial cities of South Wales (Swansea, Cardiff Merthyr etc) industrialize with more welsh workers and fewer English and Irish workers, (for example in 1851,have 13% of the population of Cardiff be English born as opposed to 25% English and 10% Irish in OTL), could you see welsh sustain itself as the dominant language in urban south Wales?, as it did in OTL North and West Wales until the first decade of the 21st century. Would it have died out anyway, if so when?


Had welsh remained the dominant language of south wales lets say after the first world war, would it still be the dominant language there today?

Would Welsh nationalism be stronger and would Plaid Cymru's appeal be Wales-wide today?

Could Wales have got an assembly earlier in the 20th century and would it be both Wales and Scotland that would be having referendums this September?

Could a strong cymraeg down south have prevented the decline of elsewhere in Wales?

How else would Wales be different?
 
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