French Ancestry
Approximately 9,447,000 people claimed French ancestry according to 2008 figures, and 1,979,951 people use French in their home on a daily basis. The US Census Bureau's 2000 census lists French as the fourth most-spoken language in the nation after English, Spanish and Chinese, although this is somewhat misleading because the census groups together the various languages of China. Thus, this population forms the fourth largest ethnic market, hailing from such places as France, Quebec, Belgium, Haiti, Senegal and other parts of the world.
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