My wife suggested I was insane last night for floating this (and you may as well) but I thought it might set off a fun discussion in the comments section so here goes.
The situation in France may give Quebec its' winning conditions. If the riots, uprising or whatever we are supposed to call it, continues and gets worse eventually people will have had enough and start leaving. It could be a repeat of the American urban "white flight" but this time on a national scale. If you are engaged in "French Flight" where might you go? Quebec seems just as likely as any. Could an influx of Francophonie be just enough to push the separatist cause of the edge?
At a minimum I am not the only one who wonders whether "French Flight" could happen. Check out Mark Steyn:
...Some of us believe this is an early skirmish in the Eurabian civil war. If the insurgents emerge emboldened, what next? In five years' time, there will be even more of them, and even less resolve on the part of the French state. That, in turn, is likely to accelerate the demographic decline. Europe could face a continent-wide version of the "white flight" phenomenon seen in crime-ridden American cities during the 1970s, as Danes and Dutch scram to America, Australia or anywhere else that will have them.
A Eurabian civil war is one of Mr. Steyn's calling cards so you may want to take it with a grain of salt, but, but he seems to be much more correct over the last couple of weeks than I would have thought a few months.
Let the comments begin.
