Pied-noir FN voting stems from mapping colonial enemies onto today’s immigrants

Evidence

The explanation I propose is this: the Pieds-Noirs who vote Front National are those who associate the former fellagha with today’s immigrants. For these voters the same causes are continuing to produce the same effects: just as the leniency of the French authorities is believed to have caused the loss of Algeria, the laxness of today’s governments enables the former fellagha to continue violently defying France in the nation’s working-class suburbs. Their choice of the Front National is thus explicable in terms of an urge to put an end to an Algerian War transplanted into France by fellagha living on French soil. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 854

Categorization

• SEED: Possible essay angle on how defeated groups keep a war alive by re-identifying the old enemy inside the new society.
• XREF: connects to: The new immigration became a target largely because prior enemy categories failed — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 518; A new nationalism rechanneled existing race feelings onto immigrant targets — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1012; Migrants become scapegoats for the loss of an imaginary Golden Age of homogeneity (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• A new nationalism rechanneled existing race feelings onto immigrant targets #corroborates (0.90) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1012
• Classic racisms located race as an external colonial invader threatening European homogeneity #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 359
• Newly assimilated colonized people become colonialisms most zealous defenders #exemplifies (0.75) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 220
• Migrants become scapegoats for the loss of an imaginary Golden Age of homogeneity #corroborates (0.72)