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Originally posted by KillarneyRose
I've also come across Cajun characters in the same books but wasn't sure what is meant by that.
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Cajuns are descendants the Acadians, who were driven out of Nova Scotia (Acadia) by the British in the mid-1700s for their refusal to swear allegiance to the British Crown. The Acadians were French. They relocated to Louisiana, which at the time was still under French control.
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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.
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You can pretty much substitute one had been raised a cultured city-girl and the other had been raised as an uncultured Bayou redneck and you would have the gist of the prejudices involved.