re: Things the average American doesn't know about Louisiana

That we're not all underwater.

That we don't all wear antebellum clothing and live on plantations (seriously, I have heard this far more than once, and they were all dead serious).

That we get more rain per year than Seattle

That the original "Tarzan" movie (silent film) was filmed around Morgan City.

That we have drive through daiquiris and allow open containers in public.

That the vast majority of us speak English only and very few speak French at all.

That there's a ton of Islano (Canary Islanders) coonasses with Spanish last names down here (Diez, Martinez, Gonzales, ect)

There's a ton of Irish, Italians, Jews, Germans, and Lebanese down here.