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re: Why isn't Louisiana contrasted from an East/West standpoint?
Posted on 4/9/15 at 12:38 pm to Cold Cous Cous
Posted on 4/9/15 at 12:38 pm to Cold Cous Cous
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what bullshite
don't get around much, huh?
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Posted on 4/9/15 at 12:41 pm to Paul Allen
S'port is like Texas, or at least to me!
Posted on 4/9/15 at 12:43 pm to Paul Allen
The cultural differences are greater between the Catholic South and the Protestant North relative to East vs West.
That is the big divide, culturally. Within the south, there are major divides between the different Catholic Cultures in the Creoles and Cajuns with the River Rats forming a buffer between the two. The Northshore people are a buffer between Creoles and rednecks of Mississippi that have more akin with North Louisiana. West Louisiana is the buffer between the Cajuns and Texans. Baton Rouge is where all the cultures intersect.
Even within the Cajuns, there is a divide between Prairie Cajuns and Bayou Cajuns (Lafayette being the cultural crossroads between the two). Within just the city of New Orleans, the culture varies widely between neighborhoods.
Louisiana is a mish/mash of home grown cultures and transplants and always has been, but the primary cultural divide is and always has been over religion. Catholic South vs Protestant North.
That is the big divide, culturally. Within the south, there are major divides between the different Catholic Cultures in the Creoles and Cajuns with the River Rats forming a buffer between the two. The Northshore people are a buffer between Creoles and rednecks of Mississippi that have more akin with North Louisiana. West Louisiana is the buffer between the Cajuns and Texans. Baton Rouge is where all the cultures intersect.
Even within the Cajuns, there is a divide between Prairie Cajuns and Bayou Cajuns (Lafayette being the cultural crossroads between the two). Within just the city of New Orleans, the culture varies widely between neighborhoods.
Louisiana is a mish/mash of home grown cultures and transplants and always has been, but the primary cultural divide is and always has been over religion. Catholic South vs Protestant North.
Posted on 4/9/15 at 12:48 pm to Kafka
Ok, so 70% of people I know in BR are Catholic. That wouldn't be the case in MS
Posted on 4/9/15 at 12:49 pm to kingbob
What are E and W feliciana considered to you?
Posted on 4/9/15 at 12:49 pm to Paul Allen
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Ok, so 70% of people I know in BR are Catholic. That wouldn't be the case in MS
but what's their east/west standpoint?
Posted on 4/9/15 at 12:50 pm to kingbob
This thread has been eye opening. I married into a south LA family of Catholics, and never thought much of the religious difference. They define everything by "that good catholic boy" or "the damn baptists". I had never encountered that in Texas, I suppose the cultural divide here is mostly the traditional racial/geographic/urban-rural. There isn't a hard line.
Posted on 4/9/15 at 12:51 pm to Paul Allen
Because it would be stupid, almost as stupid as the North South shite. Our total population of goofballs is too entrenched in north versus south to fight on another front
Posted on 4/9/15 at 12:53 pm to cokebottleag
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This thread has been eye opening.
it's pretty scary, very mafia/Jim Jones like, the relationship between the Catholic church and some of the old school(and maybe it's an ongoing thing?) cajuns
Posted on 4/9/15 at 12:53 pm to Paul Allen
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What are E and W feliciana considered to you?
Closer culturally to McComb than to Houma.
St Francisville is polar opposite of New Roads and Pointe Coupee culturally. It's actually amusing how different they could be despite being so close geographically. I wonder how the bridge will change things.
Posted on 4/9/15 at 12:56 pm to tigerfoot
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Our total population of goofballs
I resent that.
Posted on 4/9/15 at 1:00 pm to Paul Allen
Well, look at the demographics. The culture of the Feliciana's is more akin to South Mississippi than that of South Louisiana. Before the Northshore became a defacto suburb of New Orleans, the Florida Parishes formed a power block with North Louisiana to represent the Protestants while New Orleans and Acadiana represented the Catholics. The Felicianas didn't get that NOLA invasion, so they're still pretty much "North" Louisiana in culture despite geography. East Feliciana is about as "North" Louisiana as you can get with less than 5% of their population being Catholic. On the other hand, West Feliciana is more of a mix due to having just shy of 20% Catholics.
Posted on 4/9/15 at 1:00 pm to Probably
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Baton Rouge itself is far more Mississippi-like than most people care to admit.
Not really. It's where all of the cultures in Louisiana sort of intersect as the state capital and home of LSU.
I mean, it's more Anglo-Protestant than Lafayette but that's not saying much. Shreveport and Funroe are much more like Jackson and Memphis than Baton Rouge. There are a lot of Catholics in Baton Rouge, and people from all parts of Cajun country not to mention New Orleans and the coastal areas.
Posted on 4/9/15 at 1:02 pm to cokebottleag
Protestant vs Catholic in Louisiana is a huge cultural clash as they have completely different customs, culinary traditions, musical traditions, levels of tolerance for vices (drinking, gambling, dancing, ect), hell, they didn't even speak the same language up until almost World War II 
Posted on 4/9/15 at 1:05 pm to dewster
St. Francisville is that much different than New Roads?
Posted on 4/9/15 at 1:09 pm to Paul Allen
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St. Francisville is that much different than New Roads?
Look at the New Roads phone book. It's full of a bunch of French and Cajun names. Pointe Coupee itself is one of the most Catholic parishes in the state.
West Feliciana is much closer to southern Mississippi culturally.
Posted on 4/9/15 at 1:12 pm to Paul Allen
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St. Francisville is that much different than New Roads?
What's the difference between Donaldsonville and Pelican Point?
Is there a difference between Lower Livingston and Upper Livingston Parish?
Is there a difference between Hammond and LaPlace?
This post was edited on 4/9/15 at 1:15 pm
Posted on 4/9/15 at 1:13 pm to Paul Allen
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St. Francisville is that much different than New Roads?
Yes....about as different culturally as McComb and New Iberia. I've spent enough time there to know.
Posted on 4/9/15 at 1:14 pm to dewster
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This post was edited on 11/18/17 at 8:53 pm
Posted on 4/9/15 at 1:15 pm to bigballer1598
Protestant fun police in the Feliciana's and Catholic alcoholics in Point Coupee
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