{"id":1457,"date":"2016-09-01T09:36:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T13:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acadiantest.cocompass.com\/?page_id=1457"},"modified":"2018-12-01T13:30:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T18:30:09","slug":"acadiana-flag-symbols-cajun-pride","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/acadiantest.cocompass.com\/fr\/culture\/louisiana\/acadiana-flag-symbols-cajun-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Acadiana and Its Flag; Symbols of Cajun Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"CENTER\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\">Acadiana and Its Flag; Symbols of Cajun Pride<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">As early as 1956, a newspaper in Acadian Parish, the Crowley Daily Signal, coined the term ACADIANA, using it as title of a column that reported local social events. In 1963 however, a new television station, KATC-TV3 of Lafayette, rediscovered the word when someone mustyped the name of its parent company, the Acadian Television Corporation, adding an extra &#8220;A&#8221; to form Acadiana. Noting the typographical error, the station&#8217;s manager found the new word catchy, particularly because it seemed to combine the wordsAcadian and Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">KATC began using the new word on the air to describe the region covered by its broadcast signal. The word quickly took on a life of its own and evolved to describe most of south Louisiana. A recent survey of a phone directory covering south-central Louisiana revealed that more than 450 businesses and other organizations, presently use the word Acadianaon their names&#8212; from Acadiana Hight School, to the Zoo of Acadiana.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">In 1971 the Louisiana state legislature officially recognized Adadiana as a distinct cultural region consisting of twenty-two parishes: Acadia, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline, Iberia, Iberville, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Lafourche, Pointe Coupee, Saint Charles, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Landry, Saint Martin, Saint Mary, Terrebonne, Vermillion and West Baton Rouge.<\/p>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/acadiantest.cocompass.com\/images\/acad-fl2.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"114\" align=\"BOTTOM\" border=\"0\" \/><\/h4>\n<p align=\"left\">Three years later, in 1974, the state legislature officially adopted a flag for the Acadiana region. Known as &#8220;the flag of the Louisiana Acadians&#8221; (in other words, the Cajuns), it had been designed in 1965 by Dr. Thomas Arceneaux of the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette). A symbol of ethnic pride, the flag displayed a golden star on a white field, which, Arceneaux explained, represented the Acadian exiles in the American Revolution under Spanish governor Bernardo de G\u00e1lvez as well as the Acadians&#8217; Roman Catholic heritage. A silver fleur-de-lis on a blue field, stood for the Acadians&#8217; French ancestry, while a golden castle on a red field symbolized Spain&#8217;s colonial rule of Louisiana, during which the Acadians arrived in their new homeland.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Today, the &#8216;Cajun Flag&#8217; is flown throughout the Acadiana region, usually just below the Louisiana and American flags.<\/p>\n<div align=\"CENTER\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/acadstore\/460846\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/acadiantest.cocompass.com\/images\/Cajun-proud.jpg\" width=\"172\" height=\"216\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5 align=\"CENTER\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/acadstore\/460846\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view great Cajun personal\/gift ideas<\/a><\/h5>\n<p align=\"CENTER\">Reproduced with permission of author Shane K. Bernard, from his &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/acadiantest.cocompass.com\/fr\/cajunancestorsbook.html\/\">Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors<\/a>&#8221; book.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acadiana and Its Flag; Symbols of Cajun Pride As early as 1956, a newspaper in Acadian Parish, the Crowley Daily Signal, coined the term ACADIANA, using it as title of a column that reported local social events. 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