re: Is the lifestyle really much different North LA?

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what does this even mean

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South LA is losing their grip on LA superiority. Turns out we’re all from the same state, and there aren’t many secrets left to how you have a good time.

I mean, there are coonasses catching rainbow trout in Arkansas these days.

I went to lsu but my sister went to southeastern. She called me one day and said I had to read this book one of her professors wrote.

It’s called Pistols and Politics written by Dr. Samuel Hyde who I believe is from BR but he’s an expert on the Florida parishes. I recommend the book, which is about white on white crime in the piney woods of the Florida parishes in the early 1900s. In the intro he does a really great job describing the different regions of LA (assuming the reader is not from here). He says there are three distinct regions of the state of Louisiana: Metro New Orleans, Acadiana, and North LA. The Northshore (or Florida parishes) are all 3 regions mashed together.
I totally agree with the author, and while I agree with the different regions of La theory, I feel strongly that all three of them mashed together is precisely why I love the Northshore so much. You get to experience all them together. Some will likely disagree, but this is just my theory and opinion,

Your 1st sentence:

Yes to a degree, but they still can cook

2nd sentence:

No.

You won’t see a lot of kids’ activities scheduled on Wednesdays in south LA either but that’s bc the public school Catholics have CCD on Wednesday nights. At least in LC.

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Pistols and Politics written by Dr. Samuel Hyde

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Good read, and he was a good lecturer back when I was matriculating at dear ole Slow Learner U.

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Shreveport (Texas)

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There’s a lot of people in Shreveport-Bossier that would love to have TX behind their name. Probably why they leave the shithole of LA for the better state next door.

If there was ever a trade offered, Beaumont to LA and Shreveport-Bossier to TX, SBC would take that in a heartbeat.

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don’t know why yall make shite up like this. I’ve been and lived all over the state. Things like fried seafood and crawfish are exactly the same throughout pretty much the entire state. With crawfish specifically, it’s only different around Lafayette where they dust them, which is awful.

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Make this shite up? I was born and raised and nola and have lived in Shreveport for a decade.... the fried seafood is vastly different...and again... po boys up here are a totally different dish than down south. These are just facts.

I'll concede boiled crawfish is basically boiled crawfish

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He says there are three distinct regions of the state of Louisiana: Metro New Orleans, Acadiana, and North LA. The Northshore (or Florida parishes) are all 3 regions mashed together.

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I can see the Florida parishes having a mix of 318 and 504 but I don’t see any similarities with Acadiana. It’s certainly got a strong Protestant influence much like the Florida panhandle

My son is in Shreveport. He says it’s very different. The food is much better and easier to find in South LA. He says he can’t get good boiled crawfish up there. Everyone dusts the outside of the crawfish instead of boiling it using Zatarain’s or something equivalent. Mostly Protestants not many Catholics. It’s a different culture.

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They dump Tony's and Mustard on unsoaked crawfish in ice chests, and put tomatoes in their "gumbo". We are not the same

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Some of yall are seriously delusional if you believe this is a wide spread thing up there. This is not true at all.