When did the definition of creole change?

Sounds like a crazy frick in the sheets.

I thought it was a mix of foljs from the carribean islands and french?

The economy.

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When I was in school, it meant a mix of Spanish and French. Then somewhere along the way, it began to include blacks, spanish, and french mixed together.

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Lol no

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When I was in school, it meant a mix of Spanish and French.

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Then somewhere along the way, it began to include blacks, spanish, and french mixed together.

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You mean, like, forever?

Mulatto also means a biracial person from African and European ancestry. Mainly French, Spanish, or Portuguese. Many mulattos in Cuba, Dominican Republic, some in Puerto Rico, brazil etc

Creoles were French people who were in LA before the Cajuns migrated here. Many of them mated with blacks and spanish people which gives many of them that hue that we associate with creole. Especially in NO.

IIRC from my Louisiana History class in college, Louisiana Creoles were (as others have said), descendants of French or Spanish colonists, born in LA. They were white Creoles and mixed-race Creoles. I think among the social hierarchy at the time, white Creoles were considered the most upper class, as they had the heritage of Europeans but were born here. I remember reading Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" and she talked about white Creoles. If you Google "Louisiana Creole Whites" there's an article about Chopin and another study of Creoles from Yale which say similar things.

Not sure when exactly the use of Creole to mean just mixed-race people of European/African descent came about. Probably post Civil War.

ETA: I went back and found the links, in case anyone wants to read more on the Creole culture.
Loyola article on Kate Chopin
Yale article

There is louisiana creole and creole