I'm afraid that after reading this thread I still don't understand quite what is meant when someone is described as Creole. Could someone please dumb it down for me? I love historical fiction set in the South and I've "run into" many Creole characters but I had always assumed Creoles were simply descended from French immigrants to Louisiana.
I've also come across Cajun characters in the same books but wasn't sure what is meant by that.
I remember one book where identical twins were separated at birth and one was raised by her wealthy father in New Orleans and the other was raised by her mother on the Bayou and when they met the New Orleans one thought she was superior to the other because she had been raised as a Creole and the other one had been raised as a Cajun. I had no idea what the big deal was, so I just skimmed over that part
