أمريكيون فرنسيون
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| التعداد الإجمالي | |
|---|---|
| (11,800,000 4% of the U.S. population) | |
| المناطق ذات التواجد المعتبر | |
| New England, the Midwest, Louisiana | |
| اللغات | |
| American English, French | |
| الديانة | |
| Predominantly Roman Catholicism , also Calvinist Protestantism | |
| الجماعات العرقية ذات الصلة | |
| French people, French Canadian, Quebecois, Cajuns, Acadians |
الأمريكيون الفرنسيون هم مواطنوالولايات المتحدة الامريكية ذووالأصول والتراث الفرنسيين. معظم الأمريكيين الفرنسيين لم يأتوا مباشرة من فرنسا وإنما من أراض (مستعمرات) فرنسية في أمريكا الشمالية -على الأغلب في القرنين السابع عشر والثامن عشر الميلادي- كانوا فيها قبل الانتنطق إلى الولايات المتحدة. حوالي 13 مليون أمريكي من أصول فرنسية نحو1.7 مليون منهم يتحدثون اللغة الفرنسية في منازلهم. يهجرز الوجود الفرنسي في أمريكا في ولايات لويزيانا ومشيگن ومين ونيوهمبشر وڤرمونت. وقع مهم في تاريخ الأمريكيين الفرنسيين كان الانفصال عن كويبك في 1840 إلى 1930 ووقتها انتقل مئات آلاف الفرنسيين الكنديين إلى الولايات المتحدة.
تعداد الأمريكان الفرنسيين
خريطة فرنسا الجديدة. Light Blue= Claimed by Great Britain.
Many French-Americans are descended from the casket girls and comfort women who were sent to Louisiana from France as brides for the French colonists in the 18th century.
مجتمعات الأمريكان الفرنسيين
Distribution of French Americans according to the 2000 census
According to the U.S. Census Bureau of 2000, French Americans (of French and French-Canadian ancestry) made up close to, or more than, 10% of the population of:
| نيوهامپشر | 25.2% |
| Vermont | 23.3% |
| Maine | 22.8% |
| Rhode Island | 17.2% |
| Louisiana | 16.2% |
| مساتشوستس | 12.9% |
| Connecticut | 9.9% |
In states that once made up part of New France (excluding Louisiana):
| Michigan | 6.8% |
| مونتانا | 5.3% |
| منيسوتا | 5.3% |
| Wisconsin | 5.0% |
| North Dakota | 4.7% |
| وايومنگ | 4.2% |
| Missouri | 3.8% |
| Kansas | 3.6% |
French Americans also made up more than 4% of the population in
| Washington | 4.6% |
| Oregon | 4.6% |
| ألاسكا | 4.2% |
National percentage of Americans of French & French-Canadian ancestry: 5.3%
- States with the largest French communities include (according to the 2000 U.S. Census)
French and French-Canadian
| 1. | كاليفورنيا | 927,453 |
| 2. | مساتشوستس | 818,388 |
| 3. | Michigan | 680,939 |
| 4. | Louisiana | 680,208 |
| 5. | نيويورك | 628,810 |
انظر أيضاً
- Category:French Americans
- European American
- French Canadian
- The Huguenot Society of America
- Hyphenated American
- List of French Americans
الهامش
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^ "Selected Population Groups: French and French Canadian". 2000 U.S. Census. U.S. Census Bureau.
French ancestry: 9,529,969, French Canadian ancestry: 2,265,648
المصادر
- Marianne Fedunkiw. "French-Canadian Americans", in everyculture.com, retrieved April 24, 2008
- Bradley G. Bond (2005). French Colonial Louisiana and the Atlantic World, LSU Press, 322 pages ISBN 0807130354 (online excerpt)
- James S. Pritchard (2004). In Search of Empire. The French in the Americas, 1670-1730, Cambridge University Press, 484 pages ISBN 0521827426 (online excerpt)
- Yves Roby (2004). The Franco-Americans of New England. Dreams and Realities, Montreal: Les éditions du Septentrion, 543 pages ISBN 2894483910 (online excerpt) translated by Mary Ricard.
- Jean Lamarre (2003). The French Canadians of Michigan, Wayne State University Press, 209 pages ISBN 0814331580 (online excerpt)
- François Lagarde (2003). The French in Texas. History, Migration, Culture, University of Texas Press, 330 pages ISBN 029270528X (online excerpt)
- Jacqueline Lindenfeld (2002). The French in the United States. An Ethnograpic Study, Greenwood Publishing Group, 184 pages ISBN 0897899032 (online excerpt)
- Patricia Keeney Geyh, Joyce Soltis Banachowski, Linda Boyea, Patricia Sarasin Ustine, Marilyn Holt Bourbonais, Beverly Ploenske Labelle (2002). French Canadian Sources. A Guide for Genealogists, Ancestry Publishing, 320 pages ISBN 1931279012 (online excerpt)
- Peter J. Gagné and Adrien Gabriel Morice (2000). French-Canadians of the West. A Biographical Dictionary of French-Canadians and French Métis of the Western United States and Canada, Quintin Publications, ISBN 1582112231
- Carl J. Ekberg (2000). French Roots in the Illinois Country. The Mississippi Frontier in Colonial Times, University of Illinois Press, 376 pages ISBN 0252069242 (online excerpt)
- Armand Chartier and Claire Quintal (1999). The Franco-Americans of New England. A History, Manchester and Worcester: ACA Assurance and Institut français of Assumption College, 537 p. ISBN 1880261057
- Albert Valdman (1997). French and Creole in Louisiana, Springer, 372 pages ISBN 0306454645 (online excerpt)
- Dean R. Louder, Eric Waddell (1993). French America. Mobility, Identity, and Minority Experience Across the Continent, Louisiana State University Press, 371 pages ISBN 0807116696
- Carl A. Brasseaux (1987). The Founding of New Acadia. The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765-1803, LSU Press, 229 pages ISBN 0807120995
- Gérard-J Brault (1986). The French-Canadian Heritage in New England, Hanover: University Press of New England, 1986, 282 p. ISBN 0874513596 (online excerpt)
- Louis Fréchette (1982). The United States for French Canadians, 345 pages ISBN 0665177941 (was originally published in the 1890s)
- Pierre Anctil (1979). A Franco-American Bibliography: New England, Bedford, N. H.: National Materials Development Center, 137 p.
- J.L.K. Laflamme, David E. Lavigne & J. Arthur Favreau. "French Catholics in the United States". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
- Charles Washington Baird (1885). History of the Huguenot Emigration to America, Dodd, Mead & Company, (online: Volume I)
- Philip Henry Smith (1884). Acadia. A Lost Chapter in American History, published by the author, 387 pages (online)
وصلات خارجية
- Extensive studies, Documents, Statistics and Resources of Franco American History
- Franco American Center
- Franco American Women's Institute
- Institut français
- Dave Martucci, , in Flags of the World
- Vivre en Orange County - French Community in Orange County, California
- Council for the Development of French in Louisiana - a state agency.
