Jackson Lennock
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A prior thread had bene posted on whether France could have given all Algerians citizenship, and discussed the Blum Viollette proposal.
I have a narrower question: what would have been the consequences of the proposal going through? It would have granted citizenship to Algerian Veterans of the French Military and highly educated individuals. There were expectations that the benefits would be extended to other Algerian muslims at a later date, though when and to how many appears unclear. I assume civil servants, law enforcement/militia/gendarmerie, income thresholds, landholding, and french language fluency would have been the relevant criteria, but that is just a guess.
240,000 Algerians served in WWI. Assuming 250,000 get the franchise from the proposal, that would make Algerian Muslims 2% of all franchised voters in 1936. After WWII (in which 290,000 fought OTL), that would be perhaps 4% of all French voters. What would be the consequence of so many having involvement in French politics?
I have a narrower question: what would have been the consequences of the proposal going through? It would have granted citizenship to Algerian Veterans of the French Military and highly educated individuals. There were expectations that the benefits would be extended to other Algerian muslims at a later date, though when and to how many appears unclear. I assume civil servants, law enforcement/militia/gendarmerie, income thresholds, landholding, and french language fluency would have been the relevant criteria, but that is just a guess.
240,000 Algerians served in WWI. Assuming 250,000 get the franchise from the proposal, that would make Algerian Muslims 2% of all franchised voters in 1936. After WWII (in which 290,000 fought OTL), that would be perhaps 4% of all French voters. What would be the consequence of so many having involvement in French politics?