John LaFleur held a meeting at his place concerning the Creole areas of northern “Acadiana.” Avoyelles, Evangeline and St. Landry are
really Creole areas. It’s really simple
to understand once you think about it. A
simple example: A Vidrine or Fontenot
went to Lafayette and married a Boussard or Trahan and had several
children. Now the wife and kids has the
French Creole surname but the kids grew up within an Acadian area. So those Vidrines and Fontenots became Cajuns. The overwhelming majority of the people were
under the Acadian umbrella. Now if that’s
true, then what about the overwhelmingly French Creole areas of the north? Say a Broussard moved to Marksville and
married a Bordelon woman. Their children
will have an Acadian surname but their friends and neighbors are all
Creoles. So, these Broussards became
Creoles. If you read explanations of how
people were “cajunized” then that explanation must fit for the northern areas
too. Otherwise it’s all nonsense. Anyway, the article was in the
Ville Platte Gazette. Mardell Sibley was
also there and she’s researching, among other things, the French Creole Vidrines and Spanish Creole Ortegos
within her family.