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

You really don’t know France if you think that. Paris does have a large population of immigrants, but so does LA, NYC, Miami. The Loire Valley is amazing. Brittany and Normandy are beautiful , the former largely unknown to Americans. France has an amazingly diverse geography that can entirely change in a few miles. There are many places in France with amazing history, art, architecture, food, most Americans know little about. Where in America can you stand in a 1200 year old church in a tiny village in Brittany with 1000 year old frescoes, or walk through the castle where Henry II, Richard the Lionheart, or John Lackland, and Eleanor of Aquitaine lived?