Most pied-noir OAS supporters sought to stay in Algeria rather than share its ideology

Evidence

Apart from those active members with fascist, nationalist and traditionalist tendencies who went on to join organizations like Occident, Jeune Nation, and then the Front National, the great majority of the French from Algeria who supported the OAS in the final months before independence did not actually subscribe to its values: rather, they saw it as their last chance not to have to leave Algeria. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 897

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in manufactured/grievance solidarity: this is a case where a political movement’s mass base shared none of its professed ideology, only the instrumental goal of staying put.’ — connects to: Pieds noirs actually wanted economic privilege, not formal French Algeria — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1652

Broader Connections

• Pieds noirs actually wanted economic privilege, not formal French Algeria #qualifies (0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1652