re: Does the term “coonass” refer to only people of south Louisiana or Louisiana in general?

The real origin of the word "coonass"

It is an unofficial slang name, often mis-applied by people Nth of the Red River.

Louisiana has 4 groups of people :

Red necks- these individuals frequent Nth La, and the piney woods on the NW.

Florida Parish original natives- these folks usually follow the red neck ways. However, with the influx of transplants from the nola area, this original native population have mostly fled to more rural areas.

Of course, the cajuns. Their daddys and grandpas usually speak french. You know the parishes which they inhabit.

And finally, the Surburbanites, and Yats. Metairie, Orleans, St B, etc. These folks have influxed the Florida parishes and displaced the native red necks. Also, Mandeville has become Metairie North.

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So Church Point, Mamou, Eunice, Ville Platte, Port Barre, Krotch Springs are all red necks? Lol no

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The only exception to what you listed is Port Barre. The rest are prairie Cajuns AKA rednecks.

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People in north LA aren’t even Louisianans.

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a-hole i still upvoted btw.

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Opelousas Sustain

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He used to come this way.

He was on his way, to sing his song.

Really not a fan of associating the entire state with a culture in one small region that's even a minority in that region. Especially slapping an eaux suffix on everything.

It's a Cajun thing. I grew up in Texas, and my grandmother told me I was a coonass. She spoke Cajun French. I took a DNA test, and I am only 9 percent French. I am more Spanish than French.

Guess I am not a Coonass after all.

I’m the no-fun Louisianan who never uses the word.

I’m from the bayou. By all rights I can be called that term, but I don’t take pride or insult in it. It’s just an ugly word, so I don’t use it.

I grew up in Northwest Louisiana and across the years we’ve been called Rednecks, Hicks, Hillbillies, Far East Texans, probably other stuff, it’s usually laughed at and met with some words in return.
But when you look at a map of Louisiana, if you laid a straight edge on the flat northern edge of Saint Helena, East Feliciana, West Feliciana and you drew a line westward through Avoyelles, south Rapides, across south Vernon parishes to the Sabine River, everything south of that line is what I’d call Cajun and some may call coonasses. One of my grandmothers originated south of that line and I’m proud of her and respect that part of Louisiana culture.