Petit blanc poverty drove them into O.A.S. extremism that doomed them

Evidence

The grands colons could (and did) afford to get out, write off their stake in Algeria, and start up somewhere else before the debacle of 1962. But not the petits blancs. Thus (not unlike the artisan class Rhodesians who backed Ian Smith), fear at losing all drove them progressively into hard-line reaction — finally, in desperation, into the arms of the O.A.S., which, in tragic paradox, was to make it impossible for any of them to remain at all in the native land. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1652

Categorization

• XREF: Direct parallel to Rhodesian artisan class supporting Ian Smith — settler bledekirch dynamics. — connects to: Desperate petits blancs rallied to the O.A.S. as the F.L.N. had to Muslims; Desperation drove the poorer pieds noirs to rally to the O.A.S. as their protector; Desperate pieds noirs rallied to the O.A.S. to reverse their decline — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1487 (+2 more)

Related

• Desperate petits blancs rallied to the O.A.S. as the F.L.N. had to Muslims (similarity 0.93)
• Desperation drove the poorer pieds noirs to rally to the O.A.S. as their protector (similarity 0.91)
• Desperate pieds noirs rallied to the O.A.S. to reverse their decline (similarity 0.90)
• Pied noir survival in Algeria was untenable even without O.A.S. violence (similarity 0.85)
• Pied noir militants read self-determination as betrayal of the war dead (similarity 0.83)
• Urban pied noir proletariat could not afford liberalism and swung to extremes (similarity 0.83)
• Pieds noirs most closely resembled whites of South Africa and Rhodesia (similarity 0.80)
• O.A.S. terror drove out the very pieds noirs it claimed to defend (similarity 0.79)
• Pieds noirs never honestly wanted Algérie française but a protected white-ruled Algeria (similarity 0.79)
• Most pied-noir OAS supporters sought to stay in Algeria rather than share its ideology (similarity 0.79)
• OAS leaders dreamed of a South Africa-style apartheid Algeria. (similarity 0.78)
• The pieds noirs, not Muslims, triggered the events sealing Algérie française’s fate (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Urban pied noir proletariat could not afford liberalism and swung to extremes #corroborates (0.85) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 167
• Pied noir survival in Algeria was untenable even without O.A.S. violence #expands (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1655