Over the years, many Cajuns and Creoles also migrated to the Beaumont and Port Arthur area of Southeast Texas, in especially large numbers as they followed oil-related jobs in the 1970s and 1980s, when oil companies moved jobs from Louisiana to Texas.

Contemporary usage has broadened the meaning of Louisiana Creoles to describe a broad cultural group of people of all races who share a French or Spanish background.

Their collective cultures are known as " Creole ", though many non-Louisianans do not distinguish between the two groups, or do not recognize the distinctions made in the New Orleans area between the original white colonists whose offspring were the original first born in Louisiana and Creoles that were a mixture of people of European ancestry and slave populations ( or free men and women of color ) and whose skin was mulatto for lack of a better descriptor.

* Frenchcreoles. com, about the Louisiana Creoles

* Creole Heritage Center, also about the Louisiana Creoles

The third wave of European settlers were actually descendants of the second wave, mostly true Louisiana Creoles born near the Point Coupee and Opelousas Posts.

Including extensive outbuildings at Magnolia and Oakland plantations, the Cane River Creole National Historical Park interprets the history and culture of the Louisiana Creoles.

It is similar to Cajun cuisine in ingredients ( such as the holy trinity ), but the important distinction is that Cajun cuisine arose from the more rustic, provincial French cooking adapted by the Acadians to Louisiana ingredients, whereas the cooking of the Louisiana Creoles tended more toward classical European styles adapted to local foodstuffs.

American ethnic, religious and racial diversity has also produced such intermingled genres as the French-African music of the Louisiana Creoles, the Native, Mexican and European fusion Tejano music and the thoroughly hybridized slack-key guitar and other styles of modern Hawaiian music.

The Creoles are a community with varied non-Anglo ancestry, mostly descendant of people who lived in Louisiana before its purchase by the U. S. The Cajuns are a group of Francophones who arrived in Louisiana after leaving Acadia in Canada.

Jazz's roots come from the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, populated by Cajuns and black Creoles, who combined the French-Canadian culture of the Cajuns with their own styles of music in the 19th century.

As of 2012, the rural Creoles of southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas continue to sing in Louisiana Creole French.

For 150 years, Louisiana Creoles enjoyed an insular lifestyle, prospering, educating themselves without the government and building their invisible communities under the Code Noir.

When the Civil War ended and the black slaves were freed, Louisiana Creoles often assumed positions of leadership.

However, segregationist Democrats in Louisiana classified Creoles with freedmen and by the end of the 19th century had disfranchised most blacks and many poor whites under rules designed to suppress black voting ( though federal law said all black men had the vote from 1870 ).

Because of the migration of the French-speaking blacks and multiracial Creoles, the mixing of Cajun and Creole musicians, and the warm embrace of people from outside these cultures, there are multiple hotbeds of zydeco: Louisiana, Texas, Oregon, California, and Europe as far north as Scandinavia.

The Cane River National Heritage Area marks this area of influence, with plantations and churches founded by Louisiana Creoles.

Many men were Louisiana Creoles, part of the educated class.

Many of the newcomers were white businessmen from outside of Louisiana who attempted to force the Cajuns and Creoles to adopt the dominant American cultural forms, even outlawing the use of the French language in 1916.

The term " Creole music " is used to describe both the early folk or roots music traditions of the mixed race rural Creoles of South Louisiana and the later more contemporary genre called zydeco.

In the early 1950s, zydeco evolved from the music of the Creoles in southwest and south central Louisiana.

* Jim Tucker, the first Republican to hold the leadership position of Louisiana House of Representatives Speaker in more than a century.

Louisiana, Mississippi, Virginia, and New Jersey also hold off-year gubernatorial elections.

He was signed by the Cincinnati Reds after a successful run at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, but Ted Kluszewski had firm hold of the team's first base slot.

Again, Frink did not let this hold her back, proceeding with a planned trip for exhibitions to New Orleans, Louisiana, and New York City.

Another account claims they were invented by the Elmer Candy Corporation of New Orleans, Louisiana some time during or prior to 1936 at which time the sales manager for Elmer ’ s, Morel M. Elmer, Sr., decided to hold a contest in New Orleans to give this successful product a name.

The first state to hold congressional elections for the 18th Congress was Louisiana on July 1 – 3, 1822, and the last state to vote was North Carolina on August 14, 1823.

* Yusef Komunyakaa, winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was born James Willie Brown Jr. in Bogalusa, Louisiana ( April 29, 1947 ).

* Billy Cannon, All-American football player, 1959 Heisman Trophy winner and 2008 inductee into the College Football Hall of Fame from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and one of the American Football League's most celebrated players.

Produced by Showtime starring academy-award winner Forest Whitaker, Ossie Davis, and Jonathan Silverman, the film is based on the struggle of the actual Deacons for Defense against the Jim Crow South in a powerful area of Louisiana controlled by the Ku Klux Klan.

Kirsten Thorup's novel Baby, winner of the 1980 Pegasus Prize, is published in English by the University of Louisiana Press.

Dr. William Abb " Billy " Cannon ( born August 2, 1937 ) is an All-American, 1959 Heisman Trophy winner and 2008 inductee into the College Football Hall of Fame from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and one of the American Football League's most celebrated players.

Omaha was not considered a successful sire with the best of his progeny being the Bing Crosby Handicap winner Prevaricator and the Louisiana Handicap winner South Dakota.

He was a surprise winner, helped in part by the popularity of the Nixon-Agnew ticket, which carried sixty-three of the sixty-four parishes ( the exception, West Feliciana Parish ) in traditionally Democratic Louisiana.

After multiple state Returning Boards failed to resolve the election, U. S. District Court Judge Edmund H. Darrell, ordered that Kellogg was the winner of the Louisiana election.

The winner, Calob Leindecker of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, received a college scholarship totalling $ 10, 000.

The ultimate winner of the competition, Margaret Landry Moore, was the winner of the local competition in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Louisiana Waterthrushes nest in a rock crevice, mud bank or amongst tree roots, laying 4 – 6 eggs in a cup nest from late May to mid-June.

The female Louisiana Waterthrush incubates the eggs for 12 or 13 days.

The overall plan is to pluck some 70, 000 eggs from sea turtle nests on beaches across Alabama and Florida before they hatch and swim out into the oil from the April 20 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion off Louisiana.

Instead of the standard American system of primary elections to choose each party's candidate, followed by a general election contest between the winners of the primaries, the Louisiana primary allows voters to select any candidate, regardless of party affiliation.

Grant, who was to select the general to govern each district, preferred the will of Congress through the enforcement of congressional Reconstruction, but at the outset was opposed to the use of the military ; nevertheless, he adapted, and for example, authorized Phil Sheridan to remove public officials in Louisiana who were against congressional Reconstruction.

Visitors to the Louisiana Pavilion were each given a seeding of a cypress tree.

But the result in the Electoral College was in question because the states of Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina each sent two sets of Electoral Votes to Congress.

Leland G. Mims, a Minden businessman, served as a Webster Parish police juror ( the parish governing body ) from 1953 – 1976, president of the jury each year from 1956 – 1973, and president of the Police Jury Association of Louisiana from 1965-1967.

Prior to 1968, each parish regardless of population had at least one member in the Louisiana House of Representatives.

He set in motion two durable factions within the dominant Louisiana Democratic party --" pro-Long " and " anti-Long ," each diverging meaningfully in terms of policies and voter support.

The territory was then divided in five colonies, each with its own administration: Canada, Acadia, Hudson Bay, Newfoundland ( Plaisance ), and Louisiana.

The State of Louisiana and representatives from each of the thirteen impacted parishes are working to bring this project to its full potential over the next few years.

The soldiers spent the winter of 1862-1863 at New Iberia and, according to historian John D. Winters of Louisiana Tech University in his The Civil War in Louisiana, " found the weather each day more and more severe.

Olla is the site of the annual Central Louisiana Bluegrass Festival each April and to the Olla Founder's Day Homecoming Celebration that coincides with the local high school Homecoming each Fall.

New Roads hosts the oldest Mardi Gras celebration in Louisiana outside New Orleans each Shrove Tuesday.

Prior to 1968, each parish regardless of population had at least one member in the Louisiana House of Representatives.

In Louisiana, constables are traditionally elected in each voting ward, which is a subdivision of a parish.

The territory was then divided into five colonies, each with its own administration: Canada, Acadia, Hudson Bay, Newfoundland ( Plaisance ), and Louisiana.

Clarke had tried get the courts to forbid Long from running on both the Harry Truman and Strom Thurmond slates in Louisiana, but he failed to convince the judges, and Long's votes on each slate were counted.

The majority of American alligators inhabit Florida and Louisiana, with over a million alligators in each state.

With Louisiana joining Mega Millions in November 2011, Mega Millions and Powerball each are played in 44 jurisdictions, with 43 lotteries selling tickets for both games.

At its largest extent, before the Treaty of Utrecht, this territory included several colonies, each with its own administration: Canada, Acadia, Hudson Bay, and Louisiana.

Holiday in Dixie is a spring festival held each April for the Ark-La-Tex region ( Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas ) in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Other major meetings are held in California, West Virginia, and Louisiana each year.