re: Is the lifestyle really much different North LA?

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Byrd in Shreveport has more money and connections than Catholic or Jesuit

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Not familiar with Byrd. Is that a public school?

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The prairie cajuns in Elic

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I think I've met all 7 of them.

South Louisiana is growing; north Louisiana isn't.

So clearly folks have a preference.

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They called up many, man alumni with a shite ton of oil money that were older alumni that helped donate the $2 mil cost.

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Oh nevermind it's a school somewhere.

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North LA has nothing to offer but a bleak, barren landscape full of abandoned towns and speed traps. It seriously should not exist.

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Unfortunately true. North Louisiana is emptying out, and the modest growth in the southern part of the state is barely enough to keep the state's population stagnant.

I don't know how to fix it either. As depressing as it is to outsiders, it's probably even more depressing to people who have seen their hometowns decline so rapidly.

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From BR. Dad got transferred to Funroe going into 8th grade. Stayed for HS and college. Been back ever since. Here are some points.

Everything north of Bunkie is North Louisiana.
Catholic south. Baptist, Pentecostal and others north.
North Louisiana breeds them big and tall.
Northeast LA has some rich folks in it. But not like Lafayette.
Northwest LA is like Texas.
Partying is good both places. Food too.
Lately it seems like there is less of a difference but it is still there.
NLU/ULM is the only other school in the state to win a National Championship in football. (Excluding HBCU schools)
North LA is a hunter’s paradise. South is a fisherman's paradise.
People move away from north Louisiana. People in the south rarely leave.
Have met good people both places. South people are more genuine.
Overly Expensive trucks and shitty Camaros in both places.

That’s about it.

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Louisiana Tech won 2 national championships in the 1970's, claim 3 though.

Sam Hyde was your sisters professor and he wrote a book about history? How does he keep getting away with it?

On a serious note, cheers, just copped this book off Amazon.

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Monroe and Shreveport ar about as different as Monroe and Lafayette. While the Cajun culture (accent, Catholicism, beer at kids birthday parties) is not as prevalent in N LA, people confuse CENLA and Shreveport with NE La.

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For reference, NorthWest Louisiana has more cajun french speakers as % population than North East. If you order by % ranking, the bottom is North East Louisiana. This Wikipedia shows Caddo Parish has about the same % of Cajun French speaking citizens as St Charles Parish, St John the Baptist Parish, and Beauregard Parish, around 0.6%. North East Louisiana is all 0.2%. Both small percentages though. All parishes dropped a ton from 2000 to 2015. Which shows that French immersion push in early 2000s hasn't really worked.

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I know Mexicans in Houston who love crawfish like some folks love chicken.