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Originally Posted by jtown,man
Good flags:
MD
NM
OK
WA (I love the simplicity)
TX
SC
RI
CA
Quebec
Acadie (what is Acadie btw?)
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The ancestors of the Cajuns (Cajun is a corruption of "Cadien" which is a short form for "Acadien").
Acadie or Acadie was another smaller French colony among the North American colonies that made up New France. Acadie was roughly made up of Canada's current Maritime provinces.
The biggest French colony was actually in the St. Lawrence valley and called "Canada", and is considered somewhat equivalent to present-day Quebec.
The British conquered Acadia some decades before Canada, and seized the Acadians' land and deported all of them that they could catch or find. Leaving them pretty much to their own devices, which is how some ended up in Louisiana.
But some of them remained in Acadia, and some of them came back from exile.
I myself am Acadien (born and partly raised there) descended from those who escaped the deportation, though I've lived in Quebec for quite some time. And Lio45 is a Québécois of Acadian origins.
My surname is actually extremely common in Louisiana, so I guess these are all long-lost cousins of mine. Though they spell it with an X at the end down there.