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ELI5: The difference between Cajun and Creole.

What's the difference between the two groups? Is it regional? Ancestral? Were the Cajuns French speaking? The two groups are almost interchangeable in my mind but I know that isn't right.

Can anyone explain like I'm five?
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Cajuns are decended from acadians,  french speaking canadians who moved to then french controlled New Orleans when the british took Canada sometime before the american revolution.  Creoles were/ are people of european descent who are living in the "new world" . They were wealthy enough to keep their bloodlines "pure" and usually contested with appointed officials from the mother country for political and economic power. It is a term that was used throughout central and south america, which if you think about it New Orleans is a part of.