reader (the Second) wrote:
Murgen wrote:
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I assume your French resembles Cajan dialect (related to Acadien).
Good for you Reader, you picked that up. Cultures do cross borders and those that make fun usually don't know anything about it!
Did France have any impact and any migration into/on the US?
Remember I was first in linguistics before computers (before TSEs took away my time). Weren't the Acadiens chased out of Canada and settled in Northeast U.S. and in Louisiana? The other French influence is on Haitian and we're seeing Haitian influx currently. I can think of Spanish and Italian and German and Norwegian and Puerto Rican and Jamaican and Arab migration into US. I'm sure there was French also but it's not popping into my head. Well the French had a major impact on the Founding Fathers -- in architecture, fashion, political science, literature and so on.
Surely there must have been quite a few French in the North American Colonies, and probably later, too, in the fledgling USA, as the French were instrumental in the victory of those desiring freedom, weren't they?
Don't forget the French influence in that a major portion of the land area of this nation was purchased from France. In SD, there still are some people of French descent. Some of the fur traders were Frenchmen who married women of the Indian Nations in the north parts of the USA. There were quite a few Scottish fur traders, too, in the Dakota Territory. Don't forget the Irish immigrants! And those are just the major ones. Surely there were legal and illegal immigrants from most nations of the times who came to our shores in one way or another, one era or another.
MRJ
A good number of plantation owners in the south at one point were Huguenots fleeing religious persecution in France.