Reply #4: Remember that the next time you encounter someone who knows nothing of the CA mission history.

[Gormy Cuss]

There is much regional variations in the teaching of U.S. history based on local relevance. In Maine we all knew about L'Acadie and the expulsion because Longfellow was a Maine poet and the state has a heavily Franco-Canadian history. Many mill towns became primary French-speaking in the mid-19th century and there are still parts of the state where one is as likely to hear French spoken as English.

Now Mainers learning about the CA missions, not so much.