Pied noir survival in Algeria was untenable even without O.A.S. violence

Evidence

Taking into account the huge discrepancy in wealth, property and land between the two communities — nine-tenths belonging to one-tenth — the excruciating land hunger of the Algerians coupled to their soaring birthrate, racial stresses and pied noir intolerance, and — perhaps above all — the accumulated hatreds of seven and a half years of war, could the Europeans realistically have remained more than a few additional years at best? — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1655

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: An Algeria cut off from France could not survive more than a fortnight — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1374; Petit blanc poverty drove them into O.A.S. extremism that doomed them — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1652; Pied noir denial and metropolitan complacency froze Algeria into a vicious deadlock — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 332

Related

• An Algeria cut off from France could not survive more than a fortnight (similarity 0.87)
• Petit blanc poverty drove them into O.A.S. extremism that doomed them (similarity 0.85)
• Pied noir denial and metropolitan complacency froze Algeria into a vicious deadlock (similarity 0.85)
• French metropolitan public had grown apathetic about Algeria by late 1961. (similarity 0.85)
• Pieds noirs never honestly wanted Algérie française but a protected white-ruled Algeria (similarity 0.85)
• O.A.S. terror drove out the very pieds noirs it claimed to defend (similarity 0.84)
• The pied noir dilemma left its people dispossessed in both countries. (similarity 0.84)
• Europeans were only one-third of Algiers’ 900,000 population yet dominated its cityscape (similarity 0.84)
• Desperation drove the poorer pieds noirs to rally to the O.A.S. as their protector (similarity 0.83)
• The pieds noirs, not Muslims, triggered the events sealing Algérie française’s fate (similarity 0.83)
• Pied noir soldiers balked at shooting Muslim demonstrators to save Algérie française (similarity 0.83)
• Pieds noirs actually wanted economic privilege, not formal French Algeria (similarity 0.82)
• The pied noir exodus far outpaced French government predictions (similarity 0.82)
• Pied noir control of the Algerian Assembly blocked every major reform since 1909. (similarity 0.81)
• Desperate pieds noirs rallied to the O.A.S. to reverse their decline (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Pied noir denial and metropolitan complacency froze Algeria into a vicious deadlock #corroborates (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 332