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Originally Posted by Capsicum
I felt that while traveling in parts of New England, awareness that the part of Canada that was French-speaking was right above them (even while in places pretty far from the border, like small town Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut) was pretty high, among country folks and city folks alike.
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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.