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Inaccuracies in the 2000 US Census lead to the omission of St. Charles Parish from this list.

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As a polyglot (I speak Acadian French, Metropolitan French, Russian, German, Cockney, Received Pronunciation English and World Standard English) native of Saint Charles Parish Louisiana, I can say with no fear of contradiction at all that there ARE Francophones (speaking both prairie and bayou dialects of Louisiana French as well as Metropolitan and New Orleans French) in St. Charles Parish and have been since French colonization of the lower Mississippi Valley. There continue to be such today, including most of my extended family.

Bayou dialect Cajun French with occasional German overlays (such as the substitution of ej - an approximation of the German ich - for the first person singular pronoun je) is the predominant "native" dialect of French spoken in St. Charles Parish. Through the efforts of CODOFIL and cultural diffusion from neighboring Jefferson and Orleans Parishes and Vietnamese immigrants in the fishing and commercial communities, metropolitan/New Orleans French predominate over any Cajun dialect, but probably not by much. Saint Charles Parish, then, not only has French speakers, but perhaps one of the richest mixtures of French dialects - including the obscure "German Coast" dialect of Cajun French - to be found in Louisiana.

The only reason that Saint Charles Parish has been omitted from this list is that the 2000 US Census drastically undercounted French speakers in the parish and failed to count Cajun French speakers entirely. A less charitable man than me might deduce that the Clinton Administration was not anxious to count one of the most staunchly politically conservative ethnic groups in the United States of America. There are in reality more French speakers in my native Des Allemands business district (encompassing the strongly Francophone community of Bayou Gauche as well as Des Allemands) than the US Census states lived in the entire parish, and that is utter nonsense. Cajun French speakers were completely UNCOUNTED in St. Charles Parish, probably because colloquially, the distinction between Cajun and Metropolitan French isn't recognized in the parish. You either speak "French" or you don't.

I realize that WP requires facts to be "verifiable" before they can be reported, but short of introducing my entire extended family and all of our cousins who now live in Saint Charles Parish to Jimmy Wales (and to the US Census Bureau, which was transferred by the Obama administration from the Commerce Department to the White House for reasons I leave to anyone who knows how Congressional Districts are assigned to figure out for himself), I'm at a loss to figure out how to rectify this issue. Even a boucherie of my famille to which Mr. Wales would be invited would, sadly speaking, be original research.

But I will be actively compiling verifiable references to contradict the US Census Bureau's non-count of Cajun French speakers from my homeland. loupgarous (talk) 15:19, 3 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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