Creole

a person, in Latin America and the West India Islands, of European progenitors; as, a Spanish creole. The term is applied also, but wrongly, to any person born within tropical latitudes, of whatsoever color, English writers frequently being offenders in so designating mestizos and mulattos, Creole State, Louisiana, where the direct descendants of the original French and Spanish colonists form “an important element in the social system.