Your article misinforms the "Creole" class of people in two ways.
1) You speak of the history of the South, specifically the Gulf Coast as if it has been one country the entirety of its existence under that name and title. "Creole" is not an English word but a Latin one. It was a term used by the Portuguese, Spanish, and French to denote those born in the colonies owned by their European kingdoms.
2) It did not denote race. It began as a national marker which would evolve in 3-5 generations into an ethnic one. There is historical record of Alabaman Creoles, Mississippi Creoles, Missourian Creoles, Texan Creoles, and Louisiana Creoles across racial designations from the area was part of the French Empire, Spanish Kingdom, New Spain, Mexico, New France and eventually the United States.
Please revisit your understanding people in present day United States the preexist the 13 colonies expansion.
Brother, the word creole has changed many definitions over time. Words are not stagnate but are dynamic things as material and demographic conditions change. If you read Black Reconstruction, you will see that I used the word creole in the same context that Dubois used it in. Second, Dubois speaks of the South as the political entity that has dynamically formed before the civil war under a slavocracy. It is safe to frame it as a continuous region and political entity for the period being discussed with is the early 1800s up until the civil war. Third, my understanding of the original 13 slavocracys is perfectly fine. Thats what the county was until the growth of capitalist industry in the north and the eventual overthrough of the planter/slaver class in the South. I understand full well the peoples in present day US. You need to rework your viewing of history as not a stagnant thing but full of dynamic processes that shape our understanding of what people are, what we identify as and how we identify regions.
Your article misinforms the "Creole" class of people in two ways.
1) You speak of the history of the South, specifically the Gulf Coast as if it has been one country the entirety of its existence under that name and title. "Creole" is not an English word but a Latin one. It was a term used by the Portuguese, Spanish, and French to denote those born in the colonies owned by their European kingdoms.
2) It did not denote race. It began as a national marker which would evolve in 3-5 generations into an ethnic one. There is historical record of Alabaman Creoles, Mississippi Creoles, Missourian Creoles, Texan Creoles, and Louisiana Creoles across racial designations from the area was part of the French Empire, Spanish Kingdom, New Spain, Mexico, New France and eventually the United States.
Please revisit your understanding people in present day United States the preexist the 13 colonies expansion.
Brother, the word creole has changed many definitions over time. Words are not stagnate but are dynamic things as material and demographic conditions change. If you read Black Reconstruction, you will see that I used the word creole in the same context that Dubois used it in. Second, Dubois speaks of the South as the political entity that has dynamically formed before the civil war under a slavocracy. It is safe to frame it as a continuous region and political entity for the period being discussed with is the early 1800s up until the civil war. Third, my understanding of the original 13 slavocracys is perfectly fine. Thats what the county was until the growth of capitalist industry in the north and the eventual overthrough of the planter/slaver class in the South. I understand full well the peoples in present day US. You need to rework your viewing of history as not a stagnant thing but full of dynamic processes that shape our understanding of what people are, what we identify as and how we identify regions.