Anglos = barbarians

[Caliga]

It takes you three hours to get to "most of the way to Norfolk" from Richmond?  You drive like old people fuck.

I didn't drive.  He insisted on doing that, too, and his route was to take 64 from Richmond to Williamsburg, get on some side road, and then take a ferry across the James.

[Malthus]

In December I saw Jamestown from the James River but didn't actually go there.

I was in Richmond visiting my brother and my parents decided at the last minute to butt in on the trip.  That day we had planned to go to Jamestown, Williamsburg, etc. my parents INSISTED on going to some diner they saw on The Food Network that took THREE HOURS to get to (it was like most of the way to Norfolk) and just had soul food.  It was good, but my Yankee parents don't understand that in a southern city like Richmond there are tons of places you can get good soul food at.  As such there was no time to actually do anything meaningful that day.

I.  HATE.  OLD.  PEOPLE.

It takes you three hours to get to "most of the way to Norfolk" from Richmond?  You drive like old people fuck.

In an experienced manner? 

[Grey Fox]

It takes you three hours to get to "most of the way to Norfolk" from Richmond?  You drive like old people fuck.

I didn't drive.  He insisted on doing that, too, and his route was to take 64 from Richmond to Williamsburg, get on some side road, and then take a ferry across the James.

He was just trying to spend some quality time with his kid. Give the man a break.

[grumbler]

I didn't drive.  He insisted on doing that, too, and his route was to take 64 from Richmond to Williamsburg, get on some side road, and then take a ferry across the James.

Sounds to me like you need to step up and be the man.

[crazy canuck]

It takes you three hours to get to "most of the way to Norfolk" from Richmond?  You drive like old people fuck.

I didn't drive.  He insisted on doing that, too, and his route was to take 64 from Richmond to Williamsburg, get on some side road, and then take a ferry across the James.

How many times did you check your oil on that trip? 

[Caliga]

Sounds to me like you need to step up and be the man.

You're probably right, but I didn't have my car with me when I was in Richmond so that's my excuse this time.

[Caliga]

How many times did you check your oil on that trip? 

We were in his Honda Odyssey and according to him the Odyssey is perfect so I'm assuming it changes its own oil somehow.

[grumbler]

Sounds to me like you need to step up and be the man.

You're probably right, but I didn't have my car with me when I was in Richmond so that's my excuse this time.

Well, I suppose we can excuse you, just this once. 

[Siege]

Alt-Hist: The French wins the French-Indian War, the whole of North America becomes French speaking.
What would have been different in that timeline?
The Revolutionary War? Would the French colonists side with the monarchy during the French revolution? Napoleon?
WW1 and 2?
War on Terror?
Would Hollywood speak French? Would French be the new Lingua Franca? ????

[Caliga]

  Why would the English Colonists stop speaking English?  They still speak French in Quebec, dude.

[Siege]

Why would the English Colonists stop speaking English?  They still speak French in Quebec, dude.

Hey, I made this scenario. It is MINE.
My precious.

[Maximus]

Why would the English Colonists stop speaking English?  They still speak French in Quebec, dude.

The French aren't as tolerant as the English.

[Admiral Yi]

   20 years of nuns smacking us with rulers for speaking English in class would do the trick.

[Agelastus]

Why would the English Colonists stop speaking English?  They still speak French in Quebec, dude.

The French aren't as tolerant as the English.

But the French have a terrible record of colonial population expansion compared to the English and English as a language (well, its' predecessor Old English anyway) has a history of not being absorbed by the language of a conqueror even when a complete elite replacement occurs. What's more the suppression of dialects in France itself didn't occur until the late nineteenth century and the era of universal conscription so I find it hard to believe that the French could launch a successful campaign against the English language in North America in the late eighteenth century.

I think Siege's "Alt-Hist" is going to see the French kicked out of the east coast by a general Anglo revolt, and that within only a few years.

What happens after that, since the French should be able to hold on to the Mississippi river and surrounding regions is the interesting question.

Do the French finally manage to get their act together and export enough people to the area to balance the Anglos.?

Or does the area become the French equivalent of "Mexican" Texas and California due to immigration from the Engish speaking part of North America? With similar results?

[Siege]

So, colonial population expansion is the answer why French, Spanish, and Portuguese ex-colonies are so poor today as compare to the British's?

Is there a source comparing colonial population expansion?
I can't find one in google.