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Originally Posted by Acajack
Indeed, but there is a specific reason for that: in many of these areas anywhere between 15-50% of the population might be descended from people who migrated to NE from Quebec.
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It was interesting for me to notice when in the NE US and New England the consciousness or awareness of either Quebec/Canada or people with roots from it, was on the radar, versus where the influence diminished.
It seems going down from Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, the recognition of people with French Canadian roots or ancestry seems present down until where upstate NY and Connecticut are, and until they gradually merge into the NYC metro area and its suburban areas where French Canadian ancestry becomes much less notable and people are much more conscious about people with overseas immigrant roots from the Ellis Island period (Italy, Ireland) than French Canada.