I know, but when a country that has no real dominate culture that exists in the game, like the California republic, its just odd. It suddenly goes from being Mexican controlled to having yankee and dixie as the only acceptable pops when there are NONE in the nation, at all, cant even get them to emigrate there. I'm finding myself choosing the options that PO dominate culture just because there are none to get POed about it.
It would be like... lets say england forces Russia to release Poland, and Poland didn't allow for Polish to be a main culture
Just don't release it til it has some. Pretty simple.