You won't find many men saying they're not black unless they come from old money down there.
It was a caste system and still is in some ways...most of my family is dark skinned and my great grandparents had tone preferences, gender preferences, etc....the tone preference came from the most obvious place.
People tracing themselves back to some patriarch cac because of placage. You'd have to ask somebody down there right now participating in that fukkery to give you detail...might not like what you hear. Creoles owned brehs sometimes and it wasn't for 'freeing relatives'.
Thanks for the history lesson! It is black history month, figured I'd ask to learn something

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Fascinating history the whole area.
I have friends who are creole, since I live in Atlanta, lots live here. Some just look like biracial black people, or like their from the islands for the most part which makes sense given the history of slavery and slave routes.
Cajun. .. I still don't understand. I need to read up!