The isleños (islanders), the Canarian-based dialect speakers based in St Bernard parish near New Orleans, are some of the less-publicised victims of the floods. Their victory against age-old enemies in the interests of yet more Anglo hegemony is commemorated in this 1970s song (more links; Mississippi song project):
| Setecientos setentaisiete, varias familias dejaron las Islas Canarias, para la costa de Cuba, del sur de la Luisiana. En sur de la Luisiana Varios fueron de soldados; ¡Viva España y su bandera! etc |
In seventeen seventy-seven, some families left the Canary Islands, for the shores of Cuba and Southern Louisiana. In Southern Louisiana Some became soldiers; Long live Spain and her flag! etc |
There’s a lovely little piece by Samuel G Armistead here in which he suggests that the denomination by the so-called , of their southern Slav neighbours and fellow fishers as tacos has nothing to with the Austro-Hungarian past (austriacos → tacos) but rather reflects the latters’ use of tàko to punctuate conversation.
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