Integration would have demographically swamped metropolitan France

Evidence

On demographic calculations alone, Aron reckoned that within twenty-five years an integrated Algeria 18 million strong would swamp a metropolitan France of 48 million, politically if not numerically. Acting as a bloc, the seventy-five Muslim deputies which it would be Algeria’s right to send to the Palais Bourbon could provide a balance of power to whichever side of the Assembly they wished, thus preventing it from functioning normally. Integration would also slow down, if not halt, any rise in the French standard of living, and he concluded, “An Algerian France, if it pretends to regenerate France by governing it, will irremediably tear asunder the nation.” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 943 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Demographic reversal will erode France’s capacity to back the CFA currencies — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 337; Demographic arithmetic made Algerian integration untenable for France by 1958; Soustelle’s integration policy rejected assimilation while promising perpetual French provincehood (+1 more)

Related

• Algerian integration would numerically swamp metropolitan France politically. (similarity 0.98)
• Demographic arithmetic made Algerian integration untenable for France by 1958 (similarity 0.93)
• Demographic reversal will erode France’s capacity to back the CFA currencies (similarity 0.85)
• Algerian integration was only ever workable before 1958 (similarity 0.83)
• Integration was feasible in 1936 but a delusion by 1958 (similarity 0.82)
• Both Muslims and pieds noirs read integration through self-serving demographic math. (similarity 0.82)
• Pieds noirs read integration as a path to numerical submergence of Muslims (similarity 0.82)
• Post-independence Arabization made French integrationist dreams seem never realistically possible (similarity 0.81)
• Soustelle’s integration policy recognized Algeria’s distinct personality while keeping it French (similarity 0.80)
• French metropolitan democracy attenuated, while colonial Algeria criminalized, dissent against empire. (similarity 0.80)
• Demographic pressure rather than French presence produced Algerian misery (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria’s separate electoral colleges made 60,000 Muslims equal to 500,000 French (similarity 0.80)
• Soustelle’s integration program dismantled the two-college system and communes mixtes (similarity 0.79)
• France could not contemplate Algerian withdrawal because Algeria was legally part of France (similarity 0.79)
• Francisation destroyed Algeria’s native political cadres, leaving no negotiating partners. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Algerian integration would numerically swamp metropolitan France politically. #corroborates (0.90) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 943