TLDR: It couild possibly be done but will take extreme measures, cost a lot of money, fuck the economy and create a lot of animosity between ethnic groups
Also: the US must ensure that it never becomes officially bilingual or that will lead to a massive pain in the ass
*This is my understanding of the story, some facts may not be entirely accurate but I think it's close enough.
I'm not sure if the comparison is relevent as the context is entirely different but the French speaking province of Quebec (with help from the Catholic church) implemented a program called the
Revenge Of The Cradle over 100 years ago that saw Quebec women give birth to a very high number of kids in order to ensure that the English wouldn't totally out number them and it worked. Families of a dozen or more children common, former PM Chretien (1990-2003) was the 18th of 19th kids, the Quebecois knew that in order to survive as a unique people in a sea of British influence (not to mention being next door to the US), they had to breed like rabbits.
Before and after WWII, the province went through a period called
The Great Darkness, where politicians enacted some draconian measures to fight communism and the people had to be dragged into the war, even though their French cousins were being killed, they wanted nothing to do with Anglo wars. The high birth rates continued.
Then in the 1960's they had enough of the controlling politicians and the church and went through a period called the
Quiet Revolution
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The Quiet Revolution (French: Révolution tranquille) was a period of intense socio-political and socio-cultural change in the Canadian province of Quebec, characterized by the effective secularization of government, the creation of a state-run welfare state (état-providence), and realignment of into federalist and sovereignist factions and the eventual election of a pro-sovereignty provincial government in the 1976 election.
They told the church to fuck off, enacted socialist welfare policies and created a separitist party to try to have indepenance from the Anglo bastards once and for all with two referendums in the early 80s and mid-90s (I remember that one, it was shitty). In the 70s they used guerilla tactics, kidnapping and killing a politician and
kidnapping a British diplomat, Pierre Trudeau enacted the war measures act that saw the Canadian military kicking down doors looking for FLQ terrorists (Quebec Liberty Front), they even got the government to charter them plane and took it to Cuba, Castro accepted them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Crisis
After losing the second referendum, the separatist leader blamed money and the ((ethnic)) vote:
https://www.cjnews.com/news/canada/pariz...-community
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The mention of Jacques Parizeau over the past two decades has sent a shiver through members of the Jewish community, not only because of his hardline separatism, but also because they felt he really meant Jews when he blamed ethnics and money for the 1995 sovereignty referendum defeat.
Since then things have been relatively peaceful but Quebec has some really hard core language laws and actively discriminate against Anglo Quebecers who make up about 10% of the population of about 9 million, really you wouldn't believe it until your read it, when a satirical article came out that an English speaking parrot at a Montreal zoo was being deported, people believed it to be true because of the crazy lengths they go to protect French:
https://www.economist.com/americas-view/...-craquelin
So what has the end result been so far? Quebec is the economic basket case of Canada (although improving), capital fled to Toronto in the 80s but Quebec is still 90% French speaking, about 70% of Quebecers cannot speak English at all, it has the whitest and safest cities in Canada (outside of Montreal) and sees a continuous exodus of the English minority and an influx of Francophone immigrants in hopes to ensure the future of Quebecois language and culture in the province.
Here's an article to see the special treatment that Quebec recieves from Ottawa today, if an Anglo province such as Ontario made similar demands, they'd be labelled Nazis but in nationalist, vote rich Quebec they call the shots.:
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnist...l-politics