Louisian people
The Louisian people were a people of Alexandrian descent living in the Lanzerwald that had affiliated themselves with the Ludwiggian people in the 1680's. A great majority of the Louisian people belonged to the Ludwiggian Reformed Church, with a minority remaining to adhere to the Autocephalous Nazarene Church of Alexandria. Louisian people predominantly lived in Altstadt, Louisville and the surrounding area in the Confoederatio Aemilia. Louisville was considered to be the capital of the Louisan people with almost 3 million people living there and in the surrounding towns.
A small minority of Louisian people, only a few thousand, live in the United Principalities of Cibola, where they ended up after this nation was founded in the southern territory of the Republic of Sankt Ludwigshafen. Unlike in the Confoederatio Aemilia, where the Louisians are part of high society, they face a lot of discrimination in the United Principalities. This was exposed in The Plight of the Louisians, a book by Wolfgang Arnholtz in 1736. The book elicited a strong response from Nouvelle Alexandrie and the Confoederatio Aemilia. Nouvelle Alexandrie especially established the Louisian Relief Fund and the Louisian Cultural Association.
The Nouvelle Alexandrian interest in the Louisian people led to a counter-movement in the Confoederatio Aemilia. A vast majority of the people in cities like Louisville felt no kinship at all to Nouvelle Alexandrie, which had presented itself as the saviour of the people. Under the motto of "Nous sommes Aemiliennes" (We are Aemilian) the name Louisian fell out of favour. In 1737 there were no organisations registered in the Confoederatio that used the name Louisian and the previous organisation that championed the Lousian language had renamed itself to the Alliance des Aemiliennes. While the language remained, the name Louisian became sometimes even perceived as pejorative. The issue quickly blew over but the effect it had on the idea that the Louisians were a separate national identity proved to be permanent.
Louisian dialect
The Louisian dialect had a few characteristics that differ from the main Alexandrian language. The most striking to Alexandrian speakers is that the Louisians often pronounce the letter 'h' when it would not be pronounced in Alexandrian, for example in the word "Havre", meaning port. This is due to the influence of Cibolan Saxon.
Famous Louisians
- Princess Emilia Antoinette de la Rochelle
- Friedrich Flick, football player
- Donatien de LancĂ´me, military commander
- Thomas de Louisville, politician
- Mark Stau, football player
- Thomas de la Rochelle
- Galadriel Camel, fashion designer from Louisville
