These are some Flags I made for an Alt-history scenario where the US is a multilingual country.
If you wanna know more Here's a Link the post I made https://www.reddit.com/r/AlternateHistory/comments/1un9yq8/e_pluribus_unum_what_if_the_usa_was_a/
This is an alternate history scenario I made for the 4th of July! Sorry if its a little bad I'm not a historian I just like to make maps for fun and I kinda procrastinated on this too. Regardless I hope ya'll enjoy!
The main divergence in this world is the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, in our world Dutch in New York faded away pretty fast but in this one anglicization efforts by the British fail and more effort by the New Amsterdamers to keep their language alive in the region result in Dutch being more major than it was in our world. By the time the American revolution happens New Amsterdam sides with the revolutionary colonies. New Amsterdam politicians also manage to convince Quebec to rebel too since unlike our timeline the New Amsterdam shows it isn't a purely English movement. The US with Quebec's help manage to kick the British off the continent with the British only holding Newfoundland and Caribean colonies (Newfoundland would later be acquired by the US in 1812 war). After independence the US struggles more with uniting since New Amsterdamers and Quebecers often join forces against the English States due to fears of being overshadowed in an English Majority country this delays the first presidential election to 1792. Washington still becomes president like in our timeline but Jefferson becomes his VP since Jefferson is better connected to French language Americans unlike Adams, once Washington dies in his second term in 1799 Jefferson steps up as his successor (although he does feud with congress over it). Presidents in this timeline need to know more languages to connect better to the voters and this is a trend that'd show up through history, Jefferson with help from New Amsterdam and Quebec beats Adams in 1800 and with his VP George Clinton who is able to help Jefferson connect to all Americans. As the US expands further West a problem arises of which language group gets what. The great Lakes become a hot point of contension since all three of the founding language groups claim this as their own territory even though the constitution states protects languages of being spoken in the first amendment. Jefferson makes a compromise by letting the Dutch settle the area and appeasing the French Americans with the Louisiana purchase this makes the Quebecers and New Amsterdamers happy since this gives them better footing to stand up against the English majority in the country. Jefferson after serving 8 full years resigns his presidency willingly being the first president to do so as a way of respecting Washington's 2 term tradition. Madison wins in 1808 and 1812, and Monroe wins in 1816 and 1820. In 1824 the Federalists never once holding the presidency collapse and it's a four way race between democratic-republicans. John Quincy Adams doesn't make it far despite being the son of a founding father instead DeWitt Clinton takes his place. Jackson wins in 1828 and 1832, Martin Van Buren then wins as his successor in 1836, whilst he does know English and still uses English throughout his presidency Buren is the first President to serve primarily in a language that isn't English. Many presidents in this world tend to choose French or Dutch language VPs with Washington being the only president not to up to this point, having a one language ticket is pretty disadvantageous in a national election so William Harrison and his VP Webster become the first and only elected ticket in the nation's history after Washington that didn't natively speak to any non-English language, this is because they won by uniting the English vote together but as the nation diversified it never happened again. Texas in this timeline still breaks away from Mexico and follows in the footsteps of the US by being a trilingual country (with English, French, and Spanish being spoken within its claimed borders) and as the US annexes Texas and moves further West the question arises of which language gets to settle the newly conquered territories. It was decided that Spanish would become the lingua franca for anyone who wanted to go out west with Texas being the only former Mexican state that is majority English. The multilingual acceptance of this US also allows Spanish states like Arizona and New Mexico get to be states way sooner since the south wants more states to counteract the growing north and keep balance, due to Canada adding so many more states to the north the Mason-Dixon line was raised further north to the southern border of Kansas. Kansas in this timeline is also a slave state, this is due to the fact that many who wanted to go to Kansas to turn it free need to not only travel a long distance but also learn French meaning the pro-slave French Louisianans have an advantage when the state was deciding whether to be free or slave. The Mormons in this world also exist with them trying to appeal across language, eventually they try to create their own language as an American Esperanto but it doesn't really stick outside Utah. Many describe the language as being American Afrikaans with French influences. Abraham Lincoln in this world would be an exceptional candidate for president since in this world he has an English family and lives in a Dutch community letting him speak both Dutch and English and he also learns French too which allows him to speak to most Americans in their native language directly, this gets him elected in 1860 and as in our world this leads to the civil war, the civil war in this world lasts a little longer but still leads to the same conclusion. When Lincoln got shot however his VP George-Étienne Cartier becomes president. Cartier is a Quebecer and unlike Johnson is an abolitionist, instead of feuding with congress like Johnson did in our world he'd carry out Lincoln's plans and moderate with Congress over specifics this leads to a cleaner reconstruction although it isn't perfect. Cartier is also the first president to serve in French. after Cartier a long line of Republicans get elected, first Grant, then Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Blaine, and Harrison. From Lincoln to Harrison republicans have held the presidency for over 30 years non-stop this allows them to bring in a lot of abolitionist policies but also a lot of corruption. The Democrats are still around but they struggle to take the presidency since they can't win Quebec and Canada, Cleveland was the only candidate that got close but it wasn't enough, William Jennings Bryan would be the democrat to break the cycle as progressivism and populism becomes more popular among Americans. After Bryan served his 2 terms Roosevelt would bring the republicans back to the white house in 1904, his successor Taft would only serve 1 term though as he is defeated by the democratic Judson Harmon who brings the US into the second world war. Hiram Johnson wins in 1924 and becomes the US's first Spanish speaking president, he'd win reelection although the hot potato of the great depression ruins his otherwise popular presidency and brings FDR to the top. FDR is like in our timeline the first and only president to serve 4 terms. Harry Truman ascends to the presidency after he dies. in 1960 the race between Eisenhower's VP Nixon and the charismatic John F. Kennedy results in the closest election in US history with Kennedy and his Iowa VP Paul Martin narrowly winning. History follows the same lines as it does in our world although once Nixon resigns his VP John Lindsay would become president. Unlike Ford Lindsay is runs a better campaign in 1976 not making the same gaffes as Ford did this allows the Republicans to hold onto the presidency even after the Watergate scandal. Lindsay being the former mayor of New York the most diverse city in the world keeps him in office for a second term, once 1984 comes around Reagan is far too old to run, Lindsay's VP George H.W. Bush does instead. Bush faces off in an election against Jesse Jackson and narrowly loses. Jackson serves for 2 terms, in 1992 his Arkansas VP runs against Bob Dole and Ross Perot but Perot spoils the election for the GOP and again in 1996 too. In 2000 John McCain gets elected, Obama then wins as the first president to be able to speak Hawaiian and in 2016 Donald Trump loses the primary due to lack of support from Spanish voters, Cruz wins the primary but Trump spoils the election for Republicans as he runs as a 3rd party candidate. Trump like Perot runs again as a 3rd party in 2020 handing Clinton a narrow second term but he doesn't run in 2024. 2024 results in the victory of Florida governor Ron DeSantis and his VP Doug Burgum.
I hope ya'll enjoyed my scenario! If you have any questions I'd happily answer them and I'm open to critique if you have any (although keep it civil and polite)
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