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Our next stop is a city full of various ethnicities, and languages.
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Hello,and welcome to New Orleans, Louisiana. Louisiana, most notably the Delta region, is an enclave of
ethnic heterogeneity in the South. At the end of World War II, the established population
of the Delta, included blacks, French, Irish, Spanish, Filipinos, Italians, Chinese, American
Indians, and numerous other groups. Two groups that have been highly identified with the
culture of Louisiana are Creoles and Acadians (also known as Cajuns). Both descend primarily
from early French immigrants to the state, but the Cajuns trace their origins from the
mainly rural people exiled from Acadia (Nova Scotia) in the 1740s, while the Creoles tend
to be city people from France and, to a lesser extent, from Nova Scotia or Hispaniola. The
term "Creole" also applies to the relatively few early Spanish settlers and their descendants.
Languages spoken today are English, French, French Cajun, Spanish or Spanish Creole, French
Creole and other various languages.