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David Vermette

@DavidVermette

Author "A Distinct Alien Race," researcher, editor, musician. https://t.co/sgk2zvmtuH

Katılım Nisan 2010
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David Vermette
David Vermette@DavidVermette·
Enfin! Aujourd’hui voit le lancement de la traduction française de mon livre. En 2015, j’ai dit que l’objectif était de le publier en français comme en anglais et que je voulais que Les éditions du Septentrion soit l’éditeur de cette traduction. Après neuf ans, le voici ! #AmFr
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David Vermette@DavidVermette·
@VincentGeloso That's a stretch. I grew up with Québécois people outside of Québec and I often tell people that one of the clearest cultural differences b/w my family and our neighbors is that for us the British were enemies while for others they were friends, allies, the mother country even.
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Visages de France@Agedo_Memoria·
"La diaspora canadienne-française constituait la principale cible de cette organisation" Dans les années 1920 au Maine, le KKK, alors très puissant (jusqu'à 150 000 membres), était radicalement anti-canadien-français catholique, qu'il considérait comme une menace culturelle et politique. Les règlements anti-français finirent par être abolis en 1960. (source article Jean-François Nadeau "ledevoir")
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David Vermette@DavidVermette·
@mbockcote The arrogant and condescending replies and comments on the article at the G&M site tend to prove the author's point.
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David Vermette@DavidVermette·
I am going to be on the NPR radio call-in show "Maine Calling" tomorrow (3/23) at 11 A.M. to Noon. We will discuss immigrants to that state and the reception they received there. I'll be speaking to the Franco-American story there, of course. mainepublic.org/show/maine-cal… #NPR #Maine
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David Vermette@DavidVermette·
But those who were there will recall that the whole period from the oil embargo of the early 70s, through stagflation, and into the nadir of the early 80s was grim as hell and everyone was wondering if young people had a future. ("Go into computers!" said your parents.) (3)
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David Vermette@DavidVermette·
The problem with the generational battle over "who had it worse" is that younger people don't rate the real ups and downs that happened over the decades. They think that the whole period from 1945 to 2000 was like a happy 1950s sitcom where everything was easy and wonderful. (2)
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David Vermette@DavidVermette·
The graphs showing housing prices vs. real income are missing a variable: interest rates. In 1981, rates rose to near 19%. It was incredibly expensive to borrow money back then. And 1981-82 also saw 11% unemployment and inflation at 10%. The worst economy since the 1930s. (1)
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David Vermette@DavidVermette·
One of the lessons of the Little Canadas story is that, in a French-speaking place, it must be economically viable to speak French. An economically vibrant francophone community is a safeguard of the language. If you work in English Mon-Fri the pull can be irrestible.
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David Vermette@DavidVermette·
There were attempts at repression but that's not why the Little Canadas dissolved. The mills moved elsewhere. Economics called those neighborhoods into existence and when the cheap labor was no longer needed away they went. The F-As followed jobs where English was the language.
Rémi Francoeur@RemiFrancoeur1

Le français ne disparaît pas d’un coup. Il s’efface d’abord du quotidien, puis du quartier, puis de la mémoire. Dans ce texte, je raconte ce que j’ai vu dans mon Manchester natal — et pourquoi j’ai choisi le Québec. À lire ici : open.substack.com/pub/remifranco…

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David Vermette@DavidVermette·
@SpockPQC @AlexClouti86748 @RemiFrancoeur1 The "quarter million francophones" (c. 1930) number counts only the Canadian-born. There were many more than that, since U.S. born kids spoke French for a couple generations here. It's credible that there were a million or more French speakers in those states 100 ys ago.
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David Vermette@DavidVermette·
@SpockPQC @AlexClouti86748 @RemiFrancoeur1 Remi's ancestors built your country as much as yours did. The Franco population of New Hampshire was not tiny at one time. One half of all the foreign born people in NH were of F-C origin and there were more than quarter million francophones in New England. It's valid analysis.
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Rémi Francoeur@RemiFrancoeur1·
Le français ne disparaît pas d’un coup. Il s’efface d’abord du quotidien, puis du quartier, puis de la mémoire. Dans ce texte, je raconte ce que j’ai vu dans mon Manchester natal — et pourquoi j’ai choisi le Québec. À lire ici : open.substack.com/pub/remifranco…
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David Vermette@DavidVermette·
I was interviewed for this CBC article about the recent legislation re: "lost Canadians" and have a couple of (accurate) quotes in it. cbc.ca/news/canada/mo…
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Michael Brendan Dougherty
Michael Brendan Dougherty@michaelbd·
Went down a little rabbit hole. In the 1920s Maine arguably had the largest percentage population as members of the KKK in New England- 23 percent of the state. Hardly any blacks in the state. The organization was focused on keeping down French Canadians.
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Philippe-Antoine Hoyeck@PAHoyeck·
Who is a non-philosopher who should really count as an honourary philosopher?
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David Vermette@DavidVermette·
@Lianne_R @15thCenturyLiz @zenahitz That's fantastic. Glad you found it! You'll find some interesting things about Lewiston in there. My folks were French-Canadians who came to Brunswick and Biddeford, ME.
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Lianne Raymond
Lianne Raymond@Lianne_R·
@DavidVermette @15thCenturyLiz @zenahitz Oh wow - I'm so glad Zena shared your tweet. I can't wait to read your book. These are my people! - my great grandparents were French Canadians who crossed the border to work in the mills in Lewiston, Maine.
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Zena Hitz
Zena Hitz@zenahitz·
I knew a stockbroker who taught himself Homer at NYPL in his spare time and became a Homer scholar. but it is definitely not typical.
argon@ArgonGruber

@zenahitz I think that’s not true. For the learned w/out the doctorate, there is no way to join the community of scholars.

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David Vermette@DavidVermette·
If you're an indie scholar who wants to be taken seriously by PhDs then prove you can do the job. 1) Cite your sources impeccably. 2) Address the existing literature. 3) Try to get legit academics to review your work (or parts of it). 4) Don't be a crackpot. #scholarship
David Vermette@DavidVermette

@zenahitz Humbly, I'm not a PhD but I published on a particular topic and am now among the small "community of scholars" on it. I am asked to do many things academics might do such as write book reviews and journal articles, go to conferences, I'm consulted by scholars, I'm cited, etc.

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