re: Ideas for fruit trees to grow in south Louisiana

outside of the traditional fig/satsuma/kumquat/cooking pear

-loquat (Japanese plum)
-paw paw
-native wild cherry
-crabapple
-mayhaw

Peaches are challenging but possible. If you want to give it a try, LSU AgCenter probably has some publications on La Festival/La Feliciana peach trees. They're better able to produce fruit with the limited number of chill hours in south Louisiana.

My blueberries do very well. No maintenance other than a little water every now and then if we are having a fairly severe drought during the summer. I think they are easier to care for than my satsumas.

Don't have to worry about a freeze or bugs. The birds like them went they are at the peak of ripeness though.

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What are the prospects on 2-3 blue berry bushes up here in the Arctic

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I have (had) three here in BR. A Climax, Tiffblue, and Bluebell. I had to augment the soil (never a good idea) with a LOT of peat to bring the pH down. That was about 8 years ago. I still have two bushes left. The tags have long since fallen off so I don't know which one died back. It is, however, trying to come back out of the ground so I'll give it a chance but I'm worried it might be diseased. That said I get about a cup of blueberries each day for about 5 weeks beginning in June. If I could do it again I would do the blueberries in large containers. Much easier to control soil conditions. Our soil has too much clay.
As far as citrus goes get a nice looking tree with good root stock and plant it in a sunny well-drained area and don't augment the soil. Dig a hole twice the width and as deep as the container the tree is in. Till the dug soil up well. Put the tree in and push that same dirt back in.
There will be someone on here to poopoo this but I cut every fruit off after flowering for about 5 years after planting. The trees are beautiful compared to my neighbors who planted at about the same time and didn't do as I did. His, actually, look like shite.

there are blueberry bush carcasses all over my property
they are more maintenance than I wanted to contribute to the project

I've got huge figs, satsumas, kumquats, loquats and one scraggly pear that makes so much fruit every year it breaks all the branches off. those are all maintenance free which is the way I prefer my orcharding

Meyer lemons are larger and are sweeter than a typical lemon. Much more juice, but not nearly as sour.

I just ordered some elderberry bushes from RH Shumway. Check them out , they have great prices on fruits, and don't ship them until it's time to plant in your area, so you don't have to worry about remembering what time of year to order different things.