The uniform pied-noir vote is a recent constructed political myth

Evidence

Likewise, the political leanings of French repatriates were heterogeneous and subject to historical change. Savarese rejects the still widespread belief in a uniform pied-noir vote as a powerful political myth that came up in the aftermath of the French municipal elections in 1977, when a prominent pied-noir association claimed to have organized a collective vote in Southern France. In contrast to the Vertriebene, the political choice of repatriates was not restricted by anti-communism, but by a fierce rejection of Gaullism, as they blamed de Gaulle for ‘abandoning’ French Algeria after they had put great hopes in his accession to power in 1958. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 86

Categorization

• XREF: The manufactured ‘collective vote’ claim by an association echoes the reader’s theme of constructed versus primordial group solidarity. — connects to: The reputed pied-noir voting bloc existed only in political rhetoric — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 836
• QUESTION: Do similar origin myths exist for other diasporic voting blocs (e.g., claimed ‘Hispanic vote’ or ‘Muslim vote’)?

Broader Connections

• The reputed pied-noir voting bloc existed only in political rhetoric #corroborates (0.95) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 836