It’s good to keep it updated. You can’t foresee when you may need it.
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AFAIK, no Real IDs include place of birth. Passports do include it.
Pretty sure it’s not a requirement to be put on the ID, but your state knowing it from valid source data and, presumably, recording it, is a requirement for them to issue a Real ID.
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Yup. Once the Canadian Peacekeeping forces have to cross the border to suppress the riots and cross-border refugee hordes you’ll be glad to have documentation - it will allow you to make your way to our “Quebecois Refugee Support Centre and Resort” (Bed, breakfast and optional French lessons for a low price, paid for in Canadian currency, Gold Bars, Barter and/or amusing anecdotes from your flight to freedom). 
Yup, this. When I went to register my Canadian-born kids with the US consulate, I had to document enough years residency in the US before I turned 18 to have them qualify. I managed to do it by obtaining copies of my school records from kindergarten to 8th grade (which is when we left California for Australia).
I thought documenting through 6th grade would be enough, but the consulate guy explained that I “could have been travelling out of the country each summer”, so they only counted 9 months per documented school year… 
Still, I pulled it off and now each kid has a US, a Canadian and an Australian passport, so they have a few choices, if needed, in the coming excitement…
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Yup, I’ve had a valid US passport since I was 12, and counting!
This is hardly new. They’ve been trying to impose restrictions on non-white people and newly naturalized citizens and others for decades. I believe the true purpose of the so-called SAVE act is to intimidate legitimate voters in these and other categories into not voting at all.
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We are over by Manitoba. No French requirement there.
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Winnipeg has Canada’s largest Francophone population outside of Quebec. It’s centered primarily in the area called St. Boniface. Street signs are in French, and most businesses have signs in French. It’s a lovely area.
My kids went to a French immersion school when we lived in that city. My eldest became fluent by the end of 6th grade. After that, we moved to Iowa. He breezed through junior high and senior high French courses.
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When I was working for 3M, some eleven years ago, I got sent to Morden for two weeks. The plant I worked in was in Winkler, I think. It was all during the Hudderite rage on reality TV. The Walmart across from my hotel always had some Hudderites shopping.
It was a little too small town for my tastes, but it was fun.
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As predicted:
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