re: Can anyone explain Alabama fans’ infatuation with using French heritage as an insult?

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Germany occupied France for like four years, yet French is still being spoken…in France

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Do you know why Germany only occupied France for four years? That is the reason the French still speak French. Because they still are French and not German.

Had Germany held onto France, they would have transitioned to German. Just like the people living in the Louisiana territory transitioned from French to English when it became part of the United States. It took time, generations, but it happened. I am sure there would have been pockets there in France that kept speaking French, just like there are still backwaters in Louisiana that speak an unintelligible language they brought with them. The Gullahs do it in coastal Carolina. And just like in neighborhoods all throughout metro cities world wide that speak a foreign language. But the signs, documents, the official language of what was previously France would have been German.