Unsound Unsound:
Minor correction, it was "Acadians" and they were exiled from Nova Scotia.
So noted. I always get that one wrong. Thanks.
Unsound Unsound:
It's actually a pretty sad story. Especially the part where the descendants of Evangeline and Gabriel have turned into gator rasslin' rednecks after only a couple hundred years exposure to american "culture".

Honestly, they've been, and remain, a very insular group that effectively shelters itself from American culture with a few notorious exceptions...

But for the accident of history she'd be
Canadian.
But for you guys losing the War of 1812, she'd be American.