Comment by kds1223 on 07/03/2023 at 06:07 UTC

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Ok, being stuck there is an explanation that makes sense. Moving there by choice is what baffles me.

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Comment by [deleted] at 07/03/2023 at 06:17 UTC

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They were born there. In fact for a time French speakers were seen as lowly and poor. They were probably isolated from moving into more expensive cities by language barrier as English speakers moved in. They didn’t start to beat the French out of kids until the early 1920s.

Comment by YourLifeCanBeGood at 07/03/2023 at 21:35 UTC

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If you even glimpsed the culture, you would see why.