The reputed pied-noir voting bloc existed only in political rhetoric

Evidence

Insofar as carefully targeted electoral analyses have shown that there was no such thing as a pied-noir vote, the situation remained highly paradoxical. Metaphorically speaking the ‘pied-noir vote’ was every-where: in the speeches of politicians out to capture it and in the statements of community association activists harping on the pied-noir capacity to influence election results. At the same time it was radically absent from the statistics. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 836

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s question about whether professed conviction predicts actual measured bias vs. diverges from it. — connects to: Pied-noir associations fragmented by schism almost immediately despite unity rhetoric — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 652; The uniform pied-noir vote is a recent constructed political myth — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 86