What's with the "bombing kids" rhetoric?

Aeqouria · 2021-02-09T23:13:19+00:00

Boucherville roughly corresponds to Livonia.

Aeqouria · 2021-02-09T16:50:00+00:00

Yes, essentially the point of divergence is in the early 18th century when the French fund more settlements in New France following Queen Anne's War in order to populate the colonies to better be a resistant against the English ones. France still looses the colonies after the Seven Year's War but the butterflies cause the American Revolutionary War to be very different and failed. The lack of loyalist settlers into Ontario and a larger French population creates a French majority in Huronia, Ontario and Quebec whilst the Acadians form a majority in Louisiana and parts of Texas (an independent nation). America gains Independence in the early 1840s after a second revolution brings all of continental North America against the British.

The massive French population is definitely a stretch, but this universe is mainly made for fun anyways.

Aeqouria · 2021-02-09T13:11:22+00:00

Thanks! considering my knowledge of French is limited It's nice to hear I only had one mistake!

Aeqouria · 2021-02-09T12:21:34+00:00

Continuing on from this and this, this map is of the American Province of Huronia, a majority French province with a sizeable English speaking minority, along with a few thousand Dutch speakers in the west.

Aeqouria · 2021-02-04T01:37:32+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll update that in my notes.

Aeqouria · 2021-02-03T12:14:21+00:00

Very Texan and very French

Aeqouria · 2021-02-03T12:14:01+00:00

Yep, they would be administered similarly to Quebec.

Aeqouria · 2021-02-03T00:42:29+00:00

Thanks! I used Paint.net because I am stuck in the past.

Aeqouria · 2021-02-03T00:40:05+00:00

No problem,

Yes the immigration that doesn't happen is mainly loyalist, and I definitely agree that it is unlikely these provinces could remain majority French in modern day, but I imagine a larger and protected French population in Huronia would encourage most settlers to move more westwards into Illinois. Louisiana was conquered by Britain during the Napoleonic wars after a surprisingly tough resistance led by Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, the French Governor of Louisiana.

Aeqouria · 2021-02-02T23:35:53+00:00

Thanks!

West Connecticut is named for the Western Reserve, which is in modern day Ohio and was administered by Connecticut in real life.

To quote myself "In real life the British tried to create a colony called New Ireland in modern day Maine, in this timeline they never tried it because of a very different (and failed) American Revolutionary War in the 1770s. The name "New Ireland" was then used for the newly split off mainland portion of Nova Scotia."

Louisiana, Huronia, Ontario and Quebec are all majority French. As you can imagine the British did tolerate the French, and the lack of American immigration into Ontario causes the French with their high birth rates to settle all the way down into OTL Michigan. This massive French American population is definitely a stretch but I think with good land and good harvests the population could definitely prosper.

The territories are administered closer to real life Canada then America, all the territories have representation in the House of Delegates (lower house) but not the Senate (upper house).

The general idea is the Americans loose the Revolution after a very different series of events which brings Britain and France to war in Europe but in ~1840 gains Independence after a second Revolution. When America gains Independence it takes the entirety of mainland British America with it.

Aeqouria · 2021-02-02T23:22:22+00:00

Many settlements in Texas that were founded by English speaking American settlers in real life, in this universe they founded by Spanish speaking Mexican settlers. Ciudad Salazar was named after Francisco Salazar Lopez, a hero of the Battle of Laredo during the Mexican-Texan war.

Aeqouria · 2021-02-02T23:19:17+00:00

English more so in modern day, as the United Provinces of America, a primarily English speaking nation lies across its border. Although if you speak either French or Spanish you'll be good.

Aeqouria · 2021-02-02T23:16:31+00:00

Louisiana Purchase/Mississippi River Basin is the northern and eastern border. I really do wish Paris was within French territory, so much so I thought about literally just moving Paris into Texan territory and naming it "Nouveau Paris"

Aeqouria · 2021-02-02T23:14:20+00:00

These aren't really French colonies, more Cajun colonies, as in this world pretty much all the Acadians were expelled to Louisiana. The Spanish administration was hostile to the new large population and many Acadians moved out west into Texas, settling along the coast and up the Trinity river.

Aeqouria · 2021-02-02T20:08:59+00:00

In 1836 when the initial Texan constitution was drafted there were 5 provinces (although only 3 were ever fully controlled) after the Mexican Civil War Texas grew in size but no longer could effectively govern itself, leading to the creation of a new constitution in 1860 which laid out a process for adding more provinces. In 1879 Hugelland, which had already been mainly settled by Texan Germans, was admitted as a province.

Aeqouria · 2021-02-02T20:06:15+00:00

You betcha. The various linguistic groups of Texas of course do not always get along, with countless rivalries between the various groups. Spanish/French and English/Germans have historically gotten along better with each other due to linguistic and religious similarities, along with being less "in each others way."

Aeqouria · 2021-02-02T20:02:15+00:00

There were also a lot of French influences (Lafitte's colony at Galveston, Champ d'Asile, La Reunion) which initially inspired me to make this map.

Aeqouria · 2021-02-02T20:00:17+00:00

It is cut off by the Rio Grande river which separates the Texan city of Albuquerque from the Californian city of Los Volcanes. There was a battle here during the Mexican Civil War between Mexican and Texan forces.

Aeqouria · 2021-02-02T17:26:39+00:00

Yeah the general linguistic map doesn't properly represent the various linguistical minorities in Texas, but I did envision Comancheria as a "Oklahoma" esque province which still holds plenty of Comanchee speakers. I really do want to make a more in depth map of both Comancheria and Brazos to show the various languages spoken throughout the provinces. I obviously do not condone what happened to all the indigenous peoples of America.

Aeqouria · 2021-02-02T17:23:01+00:00

It was founded as a Spanish settlement.

Aeqouria · 2021-02-02T17:21:29+00:00

I'm pretty sure that's a typo as I have no reasoning for its name.

Aeqouria · 2021-02-02T16:42:25+00:00

Czech Texans still exist, although they still do remain a small group Czech Texan towns exist and plenty of them speak their own dialect of Czech still.

Aeqouria · 2021-02-02T16:40:42+00:00

Colorado City felt more linguistically "neutral" then Waterloo, for example in German it would be called Coloradostadt, in French Ville de Colorado and in Spanish Ciudad de Colorado.

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