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Historically, why did Mexicans who were the exclusive descendants of Spaniards and other Europeans become known as criollos, while the term creole in Louisiana French culture and other Caribbean cultures came to mean mixed race people and mixed languages?

by /u/moralprolapse in /r/AskHistorians

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