4) In the 20th century up to the present, South #Louisianians use #Cajun generally as a synonym for #White and #Creole generally as a synonym for #Black.

But while the revisionist history put forth in (3) did not hold for how locals define #Creoles today, it has become the prevalent misconception about what #Creole meant in the early #colonial years. Also, in the 21st century especially, there have been activists who've sought to recapture the original use of #Creole as just meaning 'local'

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1) #Creole meant 'local' even into the 19th century (i.e., all native-born #Louisianians were #Creoles)

2) The #LouisianaPurchase and #racial tensions before and after the #CivilWar complicated the picture in the 19th century

3) Post Civil War, #Whites made concerted efforts to revise history so that Creole meant #White Louisianian of #European ancestry, and therefore collapsed former Free people of color in with former enslaved people as Black.

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