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My son was born just months after the 1995 referendum, so it turns out he’s a referendum survivor.

A study last week found Quebec’s male birth rate dropped sharply in the months right after the ballot — as pregnant women under political pressure miscarried more boys than girls.

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So not only did we anglos lose hundreds of thousands of people down the 401 after the referendum, we lost more who never made it at all.

We had a post-referendum baby unboom.

The study says this birth plunge happened throughout Quebec but I suspect we anglos experienced it even more given our anglo angst, referendum rashes and zero-calorie referendum night diets when our community probably lost a cumulative 350,000 pounds.

The science behind the study is that pregnant women lose more male children in periods of trouble and stress. We males are more likely to die in the womb from earthquakes, severe cold and other natural disasters — like referendums.