I proudly display the Cajun flag on my car and elsewhere.

Probably not what you are looking for.

My ancestors came directly from France and Nova Scotia before settling here. We've, Cajuns, had our fair share of discrimination from non-Louisiana Americans, New Orleans Creoles (they were well off in the 1800's compared to the very poor Cajuns and treated Cajuns very poorly). Cajuns are considered a minority, actually. Even though there are 1.2+ million of us, it's a group that includes those of non-Creole and non-Cajun ancestry and mixes us into one large group. Anyway, Cajun culture was almost destroyed in the early 19th century when education reforms started trying to change things in schools in the Acadiana area of Louisiana. One of them was forbidding spoken French. Kids, many who had never learned English, were beaten for speaking it. Some little girls were beaten, punished, and sometimes raped for not speaking English by non-Louisiana Americans, some of them Irish Catholics. Having survived the worst of times through the years, from being forced to fight for both the North and the South during the Civil War, to barely surviving with our culture somewhat intact from the ~1920s-1970s, being Cajun is something I am very proud of. We didn't start making a come back culturally until around the 1980s and weren't recognized as a minority until that time.