AHC: Francophone Louisiana post 1803

Challenge: With a POD after 1803, have the State of Louisiana maintain a Francophone majority till 2010. (IE, a large Anglophone minority is permissible, but 51%+ of the people speak French as a native language).
 

archaeogeek

Banned
Hard that late, unless you channel a lot of french immigration in the region: when the US bought Louisiana, the entire region had about 50-60 thousand settlers.
 
Maybe the French Speaking people in the Territory are obligated to move to New Orleans or to the Missouri Area, and there they form a state which makes French it's official language, like a mini-Quebec?
 

archaeogeek

Banned
Oh, idea!
During the 19th century there was a lot of emigration of french canadians, probably as much as half of the province's population, which is why the Laurentians were eventually opened to colonization in order to stop the bleeding; if you divert enough of it you could end up with a majority french Louisiana with Tyr's idea.
 
Oh, idea!
During the 19th century there was a lot of emigration of french canadians, probably as much as half of the province's population, which is why the Laurentians were eventually opened to colonization in order to stop the bleeding; if you divert enough of it you could end up with a majority french Louisiana with Tyr's idea.

During 19th Century, as much as half of French Canadians emigrated to the USA, so if we achieve some way to redirect them to the sparsely populated forests of Minnesota and Michigan we can achieve it.
 
Challenge: With a POD after 1803, have the State of Louisiana maintain a Francophone majority till 2010. (IE, a large Anglophone minority is permissible, but 51%+ of the people speak French as a native language).
Ummm... "State" of Louisiana, as in US State? Don't think it's possible. There was a HUGE flood of Anglo settlers from Kentucky and Tennessee.

Given a PoD of 1803... We could have something that happened right at the beginning of the year that derails the Purchase.

We could have a different war of 1812, where the British take Louisiana, and possibly hold it, or have it returned to Spain (or Royalist France). (see my TL https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130408 - although it's a lot easier if you start a decade earlier than your PoD, as I did)

Hmmm....
Aside from that.... A massive Yellow Fever epidemic that scares away Kaintucks? ??? (ASB intervention?) that frees slaves and makes the area unprofitable for plantations?
 
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