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Regional breakdown of the Franco-American population (1930)1

REGION AND STATE NUMBER OF FRANCO-AMERICANS AND PERCENT OF TOTAL (1930)
New England 743,219 (67.2 %)
Maine 99,765 (9 %)
New Hampshire 101,324 (9.2 %)
Vermont 46,956 (4.2 %)
Massachusetts 336,871 (30.5 %)
Rhode Island 91,173 (8.2 %)
Connecticut 67,130 (6.1 %)
Middle Atlantic 96,621 (8.7 %)
New York 83,057 (7.5 %)
New Jersey 7,423 (0.7 %)
Pennsylvania 6,141 (0.6 %)
East North Central 146,752 (13.3 %)
Ohio 9,428 (0.9 %)
Indiana 3,120 (0.3 %)
Illinois 24,250 (2.2 %)
Michigan 87,911 (7.9 %)
Wisconsin 22,043 (2 %)
West North Central 51,354 (4.6 %)
Minnesota 29,384 (2.7 %)
Iowa 4,233 (0.4 %)
Missouri 2,701 (0.2 %)
North Dakota 6,084 (0.6 %)
South Dakota 2,773 (0.3 %)
Nebraska 2,591 (0.2 %)
Kansas 3,588 (0.3 %)
South Atlantic 5,835 (0.5 %)
Delaware 177 (nil)
Maryland 908 (0.1 %)
District of Columbia 745 (0.1 %)
Virginia 574 (0.1 %)
West Virginia 371 (nil)
North Carolina 227 (nil)
South Carolina 132 (nil)
Georgia 343 (nil)
Florida 2,358 (0.2 %)
East South Central 1,261 (0.1 %)
Kentucky 373 (nil)
Tennessee 350 (nil)
Alabama 342 (nil)
Mississippi 196 (nil)
West South Central 4,444 (0.4 %)
Arkansas 380 (nil)
Louisiana 895 (0.1 %)
Oklahoma 1,372 (0.1 %)
Texas 1,797 (0.2 %)
Mountain 13,963 (1.3 %)
Montana 6,788 (0.6 %)
Idaho 2,075 (0.2 %)
Wyoming 570 (0.1 %)
Colorado 2,568 (0.2 %)
New Mexico 282 (nil)
Arizona 652 (0.1 %)
Utah 545 (nil)
Nevada 483 (nil)
Pacific 42,710 (3.9 %)
Washington 14,137 (1.3 %)
Oregon 4,930 (0.4 %)
California 23,643 (2.1 %)
Total 1,106,159
States bordering on Canada or on the Great Lakes2 542,463 (49 %)

1. Source : Leon E. Truesdell, The Canadian-Born in the United States. An Analysis of the Statistics of the Canadian Element in the Population of the United States, 1850 to 1930. New Haven & Toronto, Yale University Press & Ryerson Press, 1943, pp. 77-81. Figures drawn from the 1930 U.S. Census. Franco-Americans are defined as Americans declaring themselves to be of French or French Canadian ethnic origin born in Canada or of at least one parent born in Canada. Figures have been rounded to one-tenth of a percentage point. Alaska and Hawaii are excluded from this table.

2. Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin.