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Posted on 8/7/21 at 4:40 pm to beef42
Down da bayou typically refers to Bayou Lafouche. Folks that live Down da Bayou are closer to the gulf. Folks that live Up da Bayou are closer to Donaldsonville.
However, down da bayou tends to be slang referring to anyone who lives in a remote rural part of south Louisiana along the water.
See, Cajuns are typically divided into two main groups: Bayou Cajuns (Bayou Lafouche) and Prairie Cajuns (around Lafayette area). Very different lifestyles despite being similar cultures.
Then, you’ve got your weird AP/lower LP cajuns that are all interbred with Germans, Islanos, Creoles, Irish, and who knows what else.
Morgan City is on the Atchafalaya River, so it’d be down river, not down da bayou.
However, down da bayou tends to be slang referring to anyone who lives in a remote rural part of south Louisiana along the water.
See, Cajuns are typically divided into two main groups: Bayou Cajuns (Bayou Lafouche) and Prairie Cajuns (around Lafayette area). Very different lifestyles despite being similar cultures.
Then, you’ve got your weird AP/lower LP cajuns that are all interbred with Germans, Islanos, Creoles, Irish, and who knows what else.
Morgan City is on the Atchafalaya River, so it’d be down river, not down da bayou.
This post was edited on 8/7/21 at 4:42 pm
Posted on 8/7/21 at 5:02 pm to beef42
Where is the loneliest place a person can go fishing on the bayou?
Bayou Self….
Bayou Self….
Posted on 8/7/21 at 8:10 pm to beef42
As someone raised in a city on I-10, I always referred to “down da bayou” as anywhere significantly south of I-10 (not as close as New Iberia, but places like Morgan City, Lockport, Houma, Thibodeaux, Golden Meadow, etc.).
I didn’t know the Piggly Wiggly was the mason dixon line of up/down the bayou.
I didn’t know the Piggly Wiggly was the mason dixon line of up/down the bayou.
Posted on 8/7/21 at 10:28 pm to beef42
What? My grandparents used to live down the bayou. There are certain areas around where I live that is referred to as "down the bayou".
Posted on 8/7/21 at 10:48 pm to beef42
The biggest reason these terms are used is because of the topography of the area, all of the bayous in lower Terrebonne and Lafourche run in a generally north south direction. There’s no more than 1 road that connects an of these communities east to west and none of the those roads are really inhabited so east west are directions that aren’t really used. All the bayous have main roads that run along the bayous with short streets that go to the back, typically no more than a few hundred yards. So the only direction you can really travel is up, down, or across. Bayou Lafourche has a 4 lane, but it’s still no more than half a mile from the bayou, not even a half mile. Pointe Aux Chene is unique in that there’s only a road on one side of the bayou, so every house across the bayou has a bridge for a driveway.
Posted on 8/7/21 at 10:50 pm to beef42
If people say “by-you” you are up the bayou, if people say “by-ya”, you are down the bayou.
Posted on 8/7/21 at 10:52 pm to beef42
If it's summer, I go down the bayou to fish Last Isle. If it's winter, I go up the bayou to fish Robinson, etc. Capice?
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