It is interesting to compare the list of cities which
Chateau Marmont will tour with the locations of AAm autographed
UEdS CD recipients and also the locations of French speakers in North America. Of course, ALL of these will be larger in regions of high population density, all things being equal.
First, the list of tour cities:
Tour Dates
Mar 09 - The Abbey - Chicago, IL
Mar 10 - The Drake Hotel - Toronto
Mar 11 - The Studio at Webster Hall - NYC
Mar 12 - Le Belmont - Montreal
Mar 14 - The Velvet Lounge - Washington, DC
Mar 18 - SXSW - Austin, TX
Mar 19 - SXSW - Austin, TX
Mar 20 - SXSW - Austin, TX
Next, below is the map showing the aforementioned CD recipients in North America. Save for the Austin gigs, the correlation under examination is significantly positive.
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Finally, below is the map showing where French is most often spoken in the USA at home, along with selected remarks first posted at
How many Americans know French? Who are they? . Note that the Louisiana Cajun concentration is somewhat close to Austin. (Also, since the map data was collected
Hurricane Katrina drove MANY people from coastal Louisiana to coastal Texas! Louisiana will lose one seat in the next US Congress and Texas will gain four seats.). Finally, for a city in Texas,
Austin is especially hip, with an important university population and a non-trivial Internet development contingent.
<big>US regions where French is spoken at home</big>
<table width="435" align="center"><tr><td>At-home French language distribution in the United States. Counties and parishes marked in yellow are those where 6% to 12% of the population speak French at home; brown, 12% to 18%; red, over 18%. Cajun French and French-based creole languages are not included even though the Creole dialects are spoken throughout the U.S. and taught in many U.S. schools.</td></tr></table>
In the US, French is spoken mainly by the Louisiana Creole, native French, Cajun, Haitian, and French-Canadian populations. French is the second de facto language in the US state of Louisiana (where the French dialect of Cajun/Creole predominates). The largest [at-home] French-speaking communities in the United States reside in Northeast Maine; Hollywood and Miami, Florida; New York City; certain areas of rural Louisiana; and small minorities in Vermont and New Hampshire. Among US adults who can converse in French, WOMEN OUTNUMBER MEN ALMOST (23/12) TWO TO ONE.
Roughly speaking, 1.6 million Americans age 5+ speak French at home. Six times as many adults (age 18+), about 10 million, can converse in French, and comprise 4.4 percent of US adults...
In America, over 13 million people report their dominant ancestry as French. About HALF as many Canadians, 6.6 million, speak French at home, 91% resident in Québéc. About 3 million Québécois, some 41%, are bilingual. The population of metropolitan France is 63 million, about five times as numerous as nominal Franco-Americans.
<big><big>French surnames - provincial per capita densities</big></big>
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We gotta invert that ENORMOUS US francophone gender gap before Institubes sends us one GIRL instead of four BOYS, ROFLPMP!