AHC: Make Cajun Nationalism a Thing

E. Burke

Banned
What would it take for some version of or variation on Cajun identity into a political reality a la Quebec nationalism.

Limits:

This identity must be relatively close to Cajun, including something close to Cajun Creole.

You can grow the size of those wok identify with it, but not to significantly.
 
Maby in one of those confederacy-survives-but-breaks-up scenarios the eastern confederates discriminate against Cajuns for being influence by black and French culture and Louisiana secedes to form its own country?
 
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As a Louisianan, I'd say this is nearly impossible with a post-1900 POD. The only way I see this even being a possibility is in the event of a break up of the US. Even then, for such an entity to exist, it'd need to incorporate New Orleans or Baton Rouge (or both) to make it economically viable. As neither of the cities (or their major suburbs) is majority "Cajun" or "Creole" and their residents would outnumber those of Cajun and Creole descent in the rest of South Louisiana, you couldn't really categorize this hypothetical country as a Cajun/Creole nation. Such a state would be less of a Quebec analog and more like an smaller version of an independent Texas with better cuisine. WWII and the explosion of mainstream American pop culture via radio and TV has brought the last few of generations of Cajuns more and more inline culturally with their neighbors in New Orleans, North Louisiana, and Texas. Heck, French is essentially dead as a language in Acadiana among people born postwar.

Bottom line is that the Cajun population of South Louisiana is too small, too poor, and too Americanized to make a go of it as an independent state.
 

E. Burke

Banned
As a Louisianan, I'd say this is nearly impossible with a post-1900 POD. The only way I see this even being a possibility is in the event of a break up of the US. Even then, for such an entity to exist, it'd need to incorporate New Orleans or Baton Rouge (or both) to make it economically viable. As neither of the cities (or their major suburbs) is majority "Cajun" or "Creole" and their residents would outnumber those of Cajun and Creole descent in the rest of South Louisiana, you couldn't really categorize this hypothetical country as a Cajun/Creole nation. Such a state would be less of a Quebec analog and more like an smaller version of an independent Texas with better cuisine. WWII and the explosion of mainstream American pop culture via radio and TV has brought the last few of generations of Cajuns more and more inline culturally with their neighbors in New Orleans, North Louisiana, and Texas. Heck, French is essentially dead as a language in Acadiana among people born postwar.

Bottom line is that the Cajun population of South Louisiana is too small, too poor, and too Americanized to make a go of it as an independent state.


I meant like a stateless nation. Like Cajuns see themselves as a nation. They don't need to be viable. How hard would it to broaden the Cajun identity? Pre 1900 is fine.
 
I'd add in one possibility. De Gaulle was a supporter of Quebec independence and was invited to Mexico- and is the only foreign leader to stand with Mexico's President when he gave the Grito de Dolores.
There was this cartoon that Herblock did as a result...
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Perhaps De Gaulle does try something like that?
 
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