What town or city best represents Louisiana's culture?

Yes, Lafayette

New Orleans, lol

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New Orleans, lol

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Not even close.

New Orleans represents New Orleans culture.

It is its own entity.

Addis

Probably Baton Rouge and more totally East Baton Rouge Parish.

Mix of blue collar, white collar, and agricultural people

I think it would have to be somewhere that is a mix of southern and northern Louisiana culture.

Isn’t Lafayette more purely southern Louisiana?

Chalmette

Evangeline Parish:

South Louisiana flat accent = Ville Platte
North Louisiana twang = Bayou Chicot/Turkey Creek

They 10 minutes from each other in the same parish

Louisiana as a whole or just south Louisiana? Different answers. There are multiple sub-states within Louisiana.

If you say Baw - that's gonna be Baton Rouge.
If you say Sha - that's gonna be Lafayette.
If you say Bro - That's gonna be Shreveport
If you say Yat - That's obviously New Orleans
If you say Honkey - that's gonna be Bogalosa
If you are a black redneck - Donaldsonville
If you use the word "y'aint" - Marksville

Unofficial center of political power is New Roads, which is also the center of population. Thibodeaux is a strong second place here. New Orleans and Baton Rouge are distant tied for 3rd.

The unofficial capital of the part of Louisiana whose economy is based on timber and speeding tickets is Alexandria. Alexandria has nothing in common with anywhere else in Louisiana though.

Ruston is the center of culture for north Louisiana, but it's still Funroe centric in many ways.

Bunkie