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People citing that they are [[American ethnicity|American]] are of overwhelmingly English descent, but have ancestry that has been in the region for so long (often since the 17th century) that they choose to identify simply as Americans.<ref name="Pulera2004">{{cite book|author=Dominic Pulera|title=Sharing the Dream: White Males in Multicultural America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SVoAXh-dNuYC&pg=PA57|date=October 20, 2004|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-8264-1643-8|pages=57–}}</ref><ref>Stanley Lieberson and Lawrence Santi, "The Use of Nativity Data to Estimate Ethnic Characteristics and Patterns", ''Social Science Research'', Vol. 14, No. 1 (1985), pp. 44–6.</ref><ref>Stanley Lieberson and Mary C. Waters, "Ethnic Groups in Flux: The Changing Ethnic Responses of American Whites", ''Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science'', Vol. 487, No. 79 (September 1986), pp. 82–86.</ref><ref>Mary C. Waters, ''Ethnic Options: Choosing Identities in America'' (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), p. 36.</ref><ref>''French Canadian Emigration to the United States 1840–1930''. Claude Bélanger, Department of History, Marianopolis College, {{when|date=September 2022}}</ref><ref>''French-Canadian Americans'' by Marianne Fedunkiw, {{when|date=September 2022}}</ref>{{Excessive citations inline|date=April 2023}} | People citing that they are [[American ethnicity|American]] are of overwhelmingly English descent, but have ancestry that has been in the region for so long (often since the 17th century) that they choose to identify simply as Americans.<ref name="Pulera2004">{{cite book|author=Dominic Pulera|title=Sharing the Dream: White Males in Multicultural America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SVoAXh-dNuYC&pg=PA57|date=October 20, 2004|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-8264-1643-8|pages=57–}}</ref><ref>Stanley Lieberson and Lawrence Santi, "The Use of Nativity Data to Estimate Ethnic Characteristics and Patterns", ''Social Science Research'', Vol. 14, No. 1 (1985), pp. 44–6.</ref><ref>Stanley Lieberson and Mary C. Waters, "Ethnic Groups in Flux: The Changing Ethnic Responses of American Whites", ''Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science'', Vol. 487, No. 79 (September 1986), pp. 82–86.</ref><ref>Mary C. Waters, ''Ethnic Options: Choosing Identities in America'' (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), p. 36.</ref><ref>''French Canadian Emigration to the United States 1840–1930''. Claude Bélanger, Department of History, Marianopolis College, {{when|date=September 2022}}</ref><ref>''French-Canadian Americans'' by Marianne Fedunkiw, {{when|date=September 2022}}</ref>{{Excessive citations inline|date=April 2023}} | ||
Maine has the highest percentage of [[French Americans]] of any state. Most of them are of [[French Canadian American|Canadian]] origin, but in some cases have been living there since prior to the | Maine has the highest percentage of [[French Americans]] of any state. Most of them are of [[French Canadian American|Canadian]] origin, but in some cases have been living there since prior to the American Revolutionary War. There are particularly high concentrations in the northern part of Maine in [[Aroostook County, Maine|Aroostook County]], which is part of a cultural region known as [[Acadia]] that goes over the border into [[New Brunswick]]. Along with the [[Acadians|Acadian]] population in the north, many French-Canadians came from [[Quebec]] as immigrants between 1840 and 1930. | ||
The upper [[Saint John River (Bay of Fundy)|Saint John River]] valley area was once part of the so-called [[Republic of Madawaska]], before the frontier was decided in the [[Webster-Ashburton Treaty]] of 1842. Over a quarter of the population of Lewiston, [[Waterville, Maine|Waterville]], and [[Biddeford]] are Franco-American. Most of the residents of the [[Mid Coast]] and [[Down East]] sections are chiefly of British heritage. Smaller numbers of various other groups, including [[Irish American|Irish]], [[Italian American|Italian]], [[Swedish Americans|Swedish]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Bringing in the Swedes|url=https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/795/page/1205/display|website=Maine History Online|date=2010|access-date=January 8, 2024}}</ref> and [[Polish American|Polish]], have settled throughout the state since the late 19th and early 20th century [[immigration]] waves. | The upper [[Saint John River (Bay of Fundy)|Saint John River]] valley area was once part of the so-called [[Republic of Madawaska]], before the frontier was decided in the [[Webster-Ashburton Treaty]] of 1842. Over a quarter of the population of Lewiston, [[Waterville, Maine|Waterville]], and [[Biddeford]] are Franco-American. Most of the residents of the [[Mid Coast]] and [[Down East]] sections are chiefly of British heritage. Smaller numbers of various other groups, including [[Irish American|Irish]], [[Italian American|Italian]], [[Swedish Americans|Swedish]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Bringing in the Swedes|url=https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/795/page/1205/display|website=Maine History Online|date=2010|access-date=January 8, 2024}}</ref> and [[Polish American|Polish]], have settled throughout the state since the late 19th and early 20th century [[immigration]] waves. | ||