10 Facts About French American

State with the largest proportion of people identifying as having French American ancestry is Maine, while the state with the largest number of people with French American ancestry is California.

The city with the largest concentration of people of French extraction is Madawaska, Maine, while the largest French-speaking population by percentage of speakers in the U S is found in St Martin Parish, Louisiana.

Nevertheless, the French presence has had an outsized impact on American toponyms.

Vital segment of Franco-American history involves the Quebec diaspora of the 1840s–1930s, in which nearly one million French Canadians moved to the United States, mainly relocating to New England mill towns, fleeing economic downturn in Quebec and seeking manufacturing jobs in the United States.

The largest number settling in South Carolina, where the French American comprised four percent of the white population in 1790.

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French American Canadians set up a number of villages along the waterways, including Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin; La Baye, Wisconsin; Cahokia, Illinois; Kaskaskia, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan; Saint Ignace, Michigan; Vincennes, Indiana; St Paul, Minnesota; St Louis, Missouri; and Sainte Genevieve, Missouri.

Amid the decline of the textile industry from the 1920s to the 1950s, the French American element experienced a period of upward mobility and assimilation.

French American was the most commonly taught foreign language until the 1980s; when the influx of Hispanic immigrants aided the growth of Spanish.

French American identifies three categories of scholars: survivalists, who emphasized the common destiny of Franco-Americans and celebrated their survival; regionalists and social historians, who aimed to uncover the diversity of the Franco-American past in distinctive communities across New England; and pragmatists, who argued that the forces of acculturation were too strong for the Franco-American community to overcome.

French American'storians have pushed the lines of inquiry on Franco-Americans of New England in other directions as well.