Talk:French Americans

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It is a inspired by :Template:African American topics sidebar, :Template:Hispanic and Latino Americans and other similar ones.
Now would be the time to give me some feedback. Merci beaucoup! :-) -- Mathieugp (talk) 00:47, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Feedback on sidebar

message: The article is about people of French origins not the names of states.  So I reduced a long rambling unsourced section that tells us very little -- it has even suggested that Delaware and New Jersey had French origins based on English words many centuries old (much of the English language is based on French of course). All this trivia takes up too much space, and we need to pay more attention to the main theme of the article, which is the history and culture of the people in America with French connections.Rjensen (talk) 13:17, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The paragraph begins: Most of the names were bestowed by early French explorers who were not permanent residents of the area that became the U.S.  Those explorers were of French decent, and we are talking about people.  If you want to save space, one just has cut off the immigration from France between 1827 and 1868.  Stop vandalising this site!  If you have something against French Americans, write a book, if you really have a PHD.  Take your racism and bigotry somewhere else!--66.254.43.184 (talk) 18:41, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: State names?

message: There is nothing about the French-American participation in the Revoltionary War and War of 1812. In The Battle of New Orleans there was a huge amount of French combatants.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 08:26, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds great Jeanne, maybe you and I should write about it, since I know that the pirate Jean Lafitte and his men participated on the American side, even though the British had offered him money and Lordship.  Without him and his men, it is probable that Andrew Jackson would have lost, since the British had 3 times more men.  Did he make the write decision or not?  Remember that the US government went after his island, seized his ships, and plundered his treasures.  Did you ever watch the movie with Yul Brynner in The Buccaneer (1958 film)?  Great movie!  I always loved this actor and he does a magnificent job portraying Jean Lafitte.  Happy Thanks Giving weekend!--Chnou (talk) 21:55, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. Some of my French ancestors from Louisiana fought under the Spanish General Galvez in the Revolutionary War as Spain was an ally of the US colonies. The list of those who served under him can be found on Internet.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 06:49, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: French participation in Revolutionary War and War of 1812

message: Would the Population section be better represented with a table, perhaps with the Top 10 states in terms of percent of the population and persons? As is it seems rather arbitrary- for example, if we're going to list states with more than 4% French population, then why not for more than 3%, so on and so forth. A table would also get rid of the excessive amount of white space that exists as of now. Minnecologiest,c 22:02, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Population section

message: One way to make French Americans look stupid is to make wildly exaggerated claims about them--such as the claim they named numerous states.  The people covered in this article did not do that and so the section on "State names given to American states" is not encyclopedic. Rjensen (talk) 14:30, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: State names given to American states

message: She is under :Category:American people of French descent.Bleubeatle (talk) 07:18, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Would Beyonce be an example as well? 

message: I knew he had to have French ancestry, his last name being "LeBlanc". I searched him up, his dad is of French-Canadian. He's pretty prominent, leading role in one of America's most-watched sitcoms. PacificWarrior101 (talk) 22:35, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, of course. Before we start another edit war, nobody knows where LeBlanc even lives. He's born in the United States, that makes him American by nationality. PacificWarrior101 (talk) 22:39, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  I added Matt LeBlanc 

message: Political controversies aside, Shouldn't there be a separate article to distinguish Francophone Canadians, or (emigrants from other French colonies in the New World) who emigrated to the United States (i.e.Quebecois, cajuns, etc.) from immigrants who came to the US directly from France? Francophone Canadians have a very distinct culture, dialect and heritage from citizens of France proper, to lump these groups together as "French-Americans" is perfectly ridiculous - its as absurd as referring to Mexican-Americans or Colombian-Americans as Spanish-Americans.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:5B0:2CFF:1EF0:0:0:0:3B (talk) 18:46, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: But all the groups you mentioned are referred to as Hispanic Americans. I think it's okay to have "French American" as an umbrella term, while acknowledging that there are distinct sub-groups within it.  108.254.160.23 (talk) 06:23, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I strongly recommend this idea too. People who emigrate from Quebec are NOT necessarily of French descent - many were actually English, Scottish, Metis, Jewish, etc. Like the US, Canada has been a society of immigrants for hundreds of years. Many who ended up in Quebec were from other parts of the world. Wikimandia (talk) 02:56, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Francophone Canadians

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message: @ has repeatedly replaced a cited value in the "religions" info with an inexact and uncited description. It may be justified, but I haven't been able to get this user to respond here or to talk page messages. I don't want to get involved in an edit war; does anyone want to render an opinion here? NewEnglandYankee (talk) 02:47, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
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thread_title:  Move discussion in progress 

message: I propose merging Franco-American Flag into French Americans, because the Franco-American Flag page is a small stub, and would not cause this article to be too long. Thank you! 你好... Community Centre 23:59, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Oppose Small indeed, but still significant enough to warrant its own article. James Ker-Lindsay (talk) 11:19, 15 January 2023 (UTC)

text: Oppose. Article size should not be a factor in determining merges. Libcub (talk) 05:58, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

text: Support. The information about the flag would be better placed within the context of the French American population. Joyous! | Talk 19:23, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

text: Support. Can very easily have its own section in the French Americans article and its size and notability does not meet requirements for its own article. Yeoutie (talk) 00:06, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

text: Support At least from my own knowledge in New England, I have serious doubts that this particular flag is real.  Earlier versions contained different flags that were personal initiatives, which made more sense. That's because in reality, there's no one single flag that would represent the entirety of the Franco-American community.  Now, it might be the case that out of personal ignorance, I haven't seen any of the flags that had been mentioned, but at least for me and most people, the flags that had been shown over time in Wikipedia would count as "fantasy" flags.  In that case, a merger would be better, as long as it's emphasized that there's no single flag (hence deprecating the existing flags and relegating the other designs elsewhere in Wikimedia Commons. 108.34.188.84 (talk) 16:45, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

text: Klbrain (talk) 10:18, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: Does Eugene V. Debs count? Both of his parents immigrated from Alsace. Should Alsatian Americans have their own page?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs 2603:6011:A400:8A82:9023:C912:3CB4:169F (talk) 17:19, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does Eugene V. Debs count? Should Alsatian Americans have their own page? 

message: This makes no sense:
"Huguenots and their descendants would immigrate to the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Provinces of Pennsylvania and Carolina due in large part to colonial anti-Catholic sentiment, during the period of the Edict of Fontainebleau.
Why would a group of Protestants immigrate somewhere because of "anti-Catholic sentiment"? The Edict of Fontainebleau revoked the Edict of Nantes which was a policy of tolerance for Protestant French. So it was an anti-Protestant edict that forced them to migrate to pro-Protestant states and colonies. Jonathan f1 (talk) 01:46, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huguenots