Who are the Creoles?
The term “Creoles” is used in a number of different ways. In the United States, it is generally used to refer to people in the Gulf States who are of foreign descent, most particularly Spanish and French Creoles, who have ancestors who settled in the region before it was incorporated into the United States. The term is also used more generally to refer to the city of New Orleans, which has a large Creole population, thanks to the fact that the region was originally settled by the French.
