I made a mistake. The new pope isn’t Cajun. He is creole

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The pope’s maternal grandparents, both of whom are described as Black or mulatto in various historical records, lived in the city’s Seventh Ward, an area that is traditionally Catholic and a melting pot of people with African, Caribbean and European roots. The grandparents, Joseph Martinez and Louise Baquié, eventually moved to Chicago in the early 20th century and had a daughter: Mildred Martinez, the pope’s mother.

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The idea that you don't understand the ramifications of an American Pope and the pride of him having LA roots, shows you need to stay out of politics.

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"person born in a country but of a people not indigenous to it," from French créole, from Spanish criollo "(person native to a locality)."

The exact sense varies with local use. Creole does not imply mixture of race, but denotes a person either of European or (now rarely) of negro descent born and naturalized in certain West Indian and American countries. In U.S. use, applied to descendants of French and Spanish settlers in Louisiana from at least 1792.

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