A communist revolution halts all immigration to the United States, and prevents movement from state to state without restrictive state passports that are only granted with Party approval. Each state develops its own culture over decades. In Louisiana, the plurality Cajun population assimilate the rest.
That regime would last 10 minutes
What would it take for Lousiana to be a majority French speaking community that had a similar history of conflict with the Anglophone majority as the Québécois have to Canada.
Louisiana having a population at least 20 times greater when it is purchased, if not 50 times, that means a pre 1900 POD. The thing with Quebec is that Quebecois made up a very large part of the Canadian population, and still do. Cajuns in Louisiana, do not and never have. They can't really have a conflict, they aren't stupid, that kind of low ratio means they can't win any conflict, and have much more to gain by working with the Anglophone majority and assimilatingWhat would it take for Lousiana to be a majority French speaking community that had a similar history of conflict with the Anglophone majority as the Québécois have to Canada.
Well, aside from distance, I think the climate would be a major problem for the French-Canadian immigrants if they went further south, especially Louisiana.This may have to stretch before 1900 but I believe in the late 1800's and early 20th century hundreds of thousands of french canadians migrated to the US. They mostly ended up in New England and eventually assimilated to speaking English.
If they had ventured all the way to Louisiana they may have decided to preserves their french language a little more?
I am one of those Americans, my ancestors came to New England for the jobs, same as the Italians, Irish, etc. There is a reason the Immigrants mostly came where they did, namely that was where the factories and supporting jobs were. Given that people were leaving Louisiana for those sorts of jobs at the same time, not gonna happenThis may have to stretch before 1900 but I believe in the late 1800's and early 20th century hundreds of thousands of french canadians migrated to the US. They mostly ended up in New England and eventually assimilated to speaking English.
If they had ventured all the way to Louisiana they may have decided to preserves their french language a little more?
There are several million americans alive today who are descendants of these french canadians.
Since this is the post-1900 forum, this will be very difficult to achieve. The Cajun population simply isn't large enough, and maybe only 5% of Lousiana's population spoke French in OTL. Perhaps you could have massive Francophone immigration in the early 20th century. One possibility would be that the French-speaking population would be augmented by refugees from France in the event of an Axis victory. I don't think they would face much oppression, though they would be Catholic and that wouldn't sit very well with some people. Another possibility would be immigration from Haiti or French-speaking African colonies (as to how this could happen, I'm not sure). In the atmosphere of the pre-Civil Rights Act South, I'd expect that Black immigrants would be in conflict with the White majority.
I am one of those Americans, my ancestors came to New England for the jobs, same as the Italians, Irish, etc. There is a reason the Immigrants mostly came where they did, namely that was where the factories and supporting jobs were. Given that people were leaving Louisiana for those sorts of jobs at the same time, not gonna happen
Is there any particular reason why you put this in the After 1900 forum?
[...]Under the terms of the purchase, the large Francophone community of Louisiana was to retain the full of the French language in government and education. The conclusion of the Anglo-American War in 1815 brought an end to British attempts at conquest, and Louisiana was confirmed as an American state.
Louisiana's population was quite diverse, but it was still Francophone. The Cadiens -- survivors of the British deportation of the Acadiens from eastern Canada in the Seven Years War -- constituted the single largest group of Louisiana Francophones, rapidly expanding in number throughout the bayous and prairies of western Louisiana. In the east of Louisiana, the Creoles descended from the pre-Seven Years War settlers vied with the tens of thousands of settlers Napoleonophile settlers who fled France after 1814 for control of state politics. There was also a large group of Black Creoles, descended from Caribbean immigrants and slaves. By the eve of the First Civil War, these Francophone groups constituted almost three-quarters of the Louisianan population. In addition to the Francophones, there was a large Anglo-American community took shape in New Orleans to profit from the Mississippi trade, and forty-five thousand immigrants -- nearly all Catholic, mainly French, Irish, Spanish, or Italian, most settlers in the New Orleans area.
Even though Louisiana was a Southern state, the passage of the Graduated Emancipation Law in 1853 also made it a free state. The rapid growth of the Cadien, Creole, and foreign Catholic agricultural settlements led to the formation of a free agricultural peasantry, unique in the South. This, and the ideological opposition to slavery on the part of the Catholic Church, led to Louisiana opting to remain outside the secessionist Confederacy, and to remain loyal to the Union, consequently making Louisiana the first target of the Confederacy...
1814: The Congress of Vienna ends the Napoleonic Wars. Like France, which has been allowed to keep its pre-Revolutionary frontiers, the United States is forced only to cede most of northern Maine to the British colony of New Brunswick and to pay an indemnity of 20 million pounds to Britain. It is allowed to keep formerly French Louisiana though, and the terms of the Treaty of Brest are honoured. This suits the almost 20 thousand French liberals and their families who flee reactionary Restoration France for liberal Francophone Louisiana.
1815-1850: The Louisiana French community grows as more French liberals continue to immigrate to republican Francophone Louisiana. By 1850, there are almost one hundred thousand Louisiana French. The intermarriage of the élite of the Louisiana French community with the prosperous upper-class Créoles of New Orleans and the Mississippi delta, and of the poor among the Louisiana French with the Cadiens of west Louisiana, creates a united Francophone enclave within the United States, amounting to more than 70% of the Louisiana population. This population is quite radical -- in 1853, Louisiana is the first state in the Union to abolish slavery, by enacting a graduated emancipation law. This anti-slavery radicalism sets Louisiana apart from the rest of the South: Although Francophone Louisiana sees itself as an integral part of the United States, neither it nor the South sees itself as Southern in the sense of being a conservative slaveowning society.
Here's a prior thread I made about it. I quote Tripartite Alliance Earth a good amount, a much older timeline that had an independent Louisiana.
Here's a prior thread I made about it. I quote Tripartite Alliance Earth a good amount, a much older timeline that had an independent Louisiana.