All of that was once the Louisiana Territory. Some parts of it became Spanish West Florida. Later on it was all divided up into the states we see today.

Because there's been lots of Americanization going on in Louisiana Creole communities people use the languages (both Creole & French) less and less and lots of vocabulary gets lost.

In Louisiana Creole aka Kouri-Vini it's a slang term for genitalia. This picture is a screencap from the Dictionary of Louisiana Creole.

Because these languages are from French colonies there was at times movement of people from colony to colony which created connections of dialect to a whole separate language while the other dialects lacked that connection.
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What's interesting is sometimes a dialect of 1 language will have interesting similarities to another language because they may be related which is the case of Northern Haitian Creole & Antillean Creole. Northshore Louisiana Creole & Pointe Coupée have similarities to Antillean & Haitian Creole.

Yes, it sure does!

The pic is from the book "African American Religious Cultures". The 2nd pic is from the PDF document "Historical Linguistic Dimensions of Spirit Migration in Haitian Vodou". The 3rd pic is from a screencap of the Wikipedia article about Candomblé Bantu.

This book is old so it uses the old orthography for these languages which essentially is a French-like orthography which isn't used today. Today phonetic or approximate orthographies are used for these Creole languages.

Yes! Some people in Pointe Coupée parish speak that way. The Creole of Pointe Coupée is an interesting dialect of Louisiana Creole!