WI: More populated French Louisiana

crya_

crya_

When the USA purchased Louisiana in 1803, most of the settlers either became slaves or integrated into American culture and society, causing most urban regions of the state to become Americanized almost completely.

But what if, in an alternate timeline, the New Orleans region of French Louisiana was more heavily populated and developed before the Purchase? Furthermore, what if the Louisianans didn't integrate into American culture and were willing to defend their culture? Would we have a situation similar to that of the Boer Wars? Would the Louisianans move westward against their oppression, much like the Mormons under Brigham Young? Where would Quebec and Acadia fit into all of this?

How could this be accomplished, and what would the shock-waves create from this?
 

Wolttaire

darthfanta said:
He’s saying what if Louisiana was much more populated with French settlers than otl?He also asked whether the Louisianans would militarily defend themselves against infringement from the US.
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Yes but they had very large French pop and it was not easily integrated there presence was really only gone by world war 2 and the were simply allowed to do there own thing
 
Revachah

Revachah

Create laws that put free people of color in a good social position with opprotunities to advance and you'll get a massive flood of Mixed and Black education elites migrating from throughout the Americas to the region.
 
Tomislav Addai

Tomislav Addai

I can imagine three or four different cultural regions of French Louisiana:
  1. Cajunia (Mississippi delta). Based around Nouvelle Orleans, this area corresponding to the OTL state of Louisiana has a large proportion of African-descended and mixed European-African descended population. They speak a French-based creole, and are considered to be currently one of the distinct minorities in USA.
  2. Middle Louisiana, based around Saint Louis in the state of Missouri. Originally, this area was populated by European French colonists, mostly Catholics, but also Huguenots. Primarily a farming and agricultural community, these folx are similar to the Anglo population of the Midwest in their values, and unlike their Metropole, they are still known to be deeply conservative. Yet, their original homeland was overwhelmed by the newcoming American settlers, the Francophone community of Missouri consists of 18% of the states population
  3. Haute Prairie : The upper Prairie, around the Dakotas and and neighbouring states, is home to an American Metis community. Descended from French adventurers, many of whom would have been considered outcasts in the Metropole, these people intermarried with the Native Americans. The community is known really to have values based around the idea of autarky and self-reliance, yet have taken many cultral customs from the Sioux as well.
  4. The foothills of the Rockies: was populated by some fractions from the second group, along with hardliner Huguenot exiles, who wished to escape the rule of American authorities. They have formed one can say ultraconservative agricultural communities, and tried to form their own states, which were later admitted into the union. In fact, the states of Colorado and Wyoming are officially bilingual, recognize the Francophone heritage, despite the current Anglophone majority 76% and 64% respectively
 
Dylanperr

Dylanperr

I think the French Louisianans and then French from both France and Quebec would move westward establish their own nation in the what was unclaimed Pacific Northwest part of the United States which was the present day states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
 
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