How to get more French immigrants coming to America along with Irish, Italians, etc? And why is it that the U.S. never had a sizable French population outside of New Orleans?
New Orleans and Louisiana as a whole received a large amount. However, this area is unique within the US; thus it cannot be applied as examples.
Just to flip the script, so to speak, but what if we chsnge the US a bit, instead of France? For example, a scenario in which Quebec is part of the US and has entered under terms very amenable to the Catholic French population. Basically, if the US as a whole is seen as less anti-Catholic and Anglophone, we might see more immigration.
Catholics from other countries didn't seem to have a problem immigrating to the US. There just were not that many French people that wanted to emigrate in the first place.
Yeah, you need a lot of Catholic immigration to have the kind of anti-Catholic backlash that America had in the nineteenth and even early twentieth centuries. French folk would fit in just fine. The question is if they would settle somewhere like New England, move out West, or congregate in pre-existing French communities, like New Orleans. I guess it would all depend on what their finances look like as a group... how rich were the average emigrant? Dirt-poor like the Irish or relatively mobile like the Germans?Catholics from other countries didn't seem to have a problem immigrating to the US. There just were not that many French people that wanted to emigrate in the first place.