The Croissant Democracy (Would it be possible?)

The scenario goes as follows: After 7 Years' War French Acadians move from Canada down into the Mississippi River area. Tension rises in the territory as New Spain begins enforcing new laws on the French that lived in the region, unlike OTL where New Spain was passive. Slavery & poor native treatment also add to the instability.

In 1772, French Acadians, along with Maroons and the Choctaw Nation, take arms up against New Spain. Specifically inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (same way the US was inspired by Locke) the Acadians declare themselves the Republic of Acadiana, aka the Croissant Democracy.

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Now I kind of want to write a scenario like this, but I would like to know if it would be possible.
And if it is possible, would they succeed? And how would it effect the American Revolution and the numerous other revolutions afterward?
 
Why would the Cajuns attack and rebel against their Spaniard hosts? The Creole elite of Louisiana did launch a coup in the early period of the Spanish reign and generally would be the group to seek such political aspirations. Cajun on the other hand, represented an intense rural population and strong Catholicism (similar to their relatives in Canada, less so than the Creole, who tended to be less intense). It is not their realm to be the heirs of Rousseau, if any, this would fall to the Creole, who also are ill suited as people whose economy is partly related to slavery.
 
Generaly speaking I would say they are going to lose, unless manage to get foreign support, or Spain (including the Spanish America's) is distracted by something else (like a war).
 
Generaly speaking I would say they are going to lose, unless manage to get foreign support, or Spain (including the Spanish America's) is distracted by something else (like a war).

Can we delay the uprising to the Napoleonic Wars? Instead of Rousseau, perhaps have the Acadians attracted by both the US example and the philosophy of Baron Charles de Montesquieu. Montesquieu believed you could only have a sustainable republican form of government in a city-state. Anything as big as Louisiana was in 1800 was bound to become a monarchy, if not a despotism. If you could get a popular uprising against Spanish rule determined to have a stable republic before the Louisiana purchase, this is a possibility. But it's doubtful the Cajuns would be able to scrap up the resource$ to overwhelm the Creole leadership of New Orleans. It would have to be an alliance between the two groups that found common cause against the Spanish government.

You'd probably have to generate changes further up the timeline to get the Franco-Louisianos unified against Spanish rule.
 
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