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re: Is Louisiana part of the Deep South?

Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:16 pm to
Posted by LeGrosChat
Bangladesh
Member since Feb 2016
660 posts
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:16 pm to
Mason Dixon line

One look at Mason Dixon line and it tells you that map is wrong.
Posted by N2cars
Member since Feb 2008
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Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:17 pm to
Southern Louisiana is the very definition of the Deep South; both by population makeup and economic history. Cotton and sugar cane plantations, demographics, education of residents; not sure how this debatable.

If people want to say New Orleans is somehow different or special, maybe, but that's just one city in the State.
Posted by dstone12
Texan
Member since Jan 2007
40384 posts
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:17 pm to
I can go with that map.

But if you said the Florida parishes, southern Miss, Lower Alabama, southern fa and the pandhand would be more deep south I’d be fine with it.
This post was edited on 10/21/25 at 8:18 pm
Posted by Turnblad85
Member since Sep 2022
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Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:18 pm to
quote:

Any deeper and you're in the Gulf




So you're saying Florida is the King of the Deep South?
Posted by LSUballs
RayVegas LA
Member since Feb 2008
40383 posts
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:19 pm to
quote:

Southern Louisiana is the very definition of the Deep South; both by population makeup and economic history. Cotton and sugar cane plantations, demographics,



Sure Jan
Posted by Tigersaint01
Emerald Isle, NC
Member since Aug 2024
74 posts
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:20 pm to
The map shown is a great reminder not to believe everything you read on the internet.
Posted by N2cars
Member since Feb 2008
39628 posts
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:21 pm to
Nah, I was being facetious.

Louisiana, by and large, is more Deep South than Florida.

And I do agree about Texas.
Posted by SallysHuman
Lady Palmetto Bug
Member since Jan 2025
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Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:21 pm to
Mason Dixon line has nuthin to do with deep south.
Posted by dgnx6
Member since Feb 2006
89771 posts
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:21 pm to
quote:

Southern Louisiana is its own thing, central and northern Louisiana are definitely Deep South culturally. The panhandle of Florida is also Deep South culturally.


Was going to say the same.

I guess the biggest thing is south Louisiana is Catholic. I didn’t know many Catholics when I lived in Georgia.
Posted by Epic Cajun
Lafayette, LA
Member since Feb 2013
37054 posts
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:22 pm to
quote:

demographics

The Deep South states have French heritage and are Catholic? Or, does that not matter because we’re white just like the European settlers of the Deep South states?
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2024
9950 posts
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:23 pm to
Texas and Louisiana have their own individual identity like Florida has.

However without adding another color, Louisiana is definitely Deep South and I would put Texas as blue (western State).
This post was edited on 10/21/25 at 8:26 pm
Posted by Turnblad85
Member since Sep 2022
5538 posts
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:26 pm to
quote:

Texas and Louisiana have their own individual identity like Florida has.




I agree. The map is accurate. (at least the deep south portion)
Posted by N2cars
Member since Feb 2008
39628 posts
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:27 pm to
I dont think the rest of the country thinks of "Catholic" when they think of Louisiana.


( despite our parishes)

I bet if you polled states, 75-80% would indeed say Louisiana was the Deep South, probably for the reasons you stated.
Hell, they all think we have alligators in our backyard.
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
122154 posts
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:28 pm to
Literally yes, but culturally no. At least not South Louisiana.

And speaking of South Louisiana, where New Orleans is located here is a New Orleans artist's song turned into a blues song.

Posted by OceanMan
Member since Mar 2010
23213 posts
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:29 pm to
I thought Louisiana was the Deep South.
Posted by Tchefuncte Tiger
Bat'n Rudge
Member since Oct 2004
63408 posts
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:29 pm to
Louisiana is as Deep South as it gets. Who ever came up with that map is a doofus.
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
157344 posts
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:33 pm to
quote:


Texas is not the south. It’s its own entity
as is Oklahoma
Posted by Havoc
Member since Nov 2015
39255 posts
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:33 pm to
Well that’s fricking stupid.
Kill whoever made that POS map.
Posted by X123F45
Member since Apr 2015
29822 posts
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:36 pm to
My insult for any southerner above I10 has always been to call them a yankee.

A while back a baw from South LA said anyone north of Hwy 90.

I was damned near devastated.
Posted by Fat and Happy
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2013
19954 posts
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:40 pm to
Why in the world would west virgina be considered even a little bit part of the south?

It’s not that far from the north east
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