Well that's different. They have excuses. First most french citizens know little or none of what is going on at the EU level when it comes to citizen rights and certainly the Press does little or none to change that. Second,  french gov has openly fought for a long time in some cases with a lot of state violence any resurgence of the defense of these regional or minorities interests. Lots of them forced into an identity that isn't theirs have in many occasions slipped towards a lot of confusion leading some into extreme views of the french identity.... Once more u know it is not based on what most people under french administration learn in school or later through medias and "national conversation" that they can easily demonstrate wiseness when it comes to express themselves on "national identity"... which is insane anyway.