re: So what are your viewpoints on where the Cajun area is?

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Vdrine

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God damn, baw

You named your TD handle where you live/grew up? Oh yea, you’re an Evangeline parish baw for sure.

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Apparently some people say there are Cajuns in Texas? I thought it was a Louisiana only thing

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Drive on over to Orange, TX and you'll find plenty of Cajun surnames in the telephone book. Fontenot, Thibodeaux, etc. Most of them are one or two generations removed from Louisiana, though. And they all have that funny Texas accent when they talk.

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Erath, Abbeville, Gueydan, Kaplan, etc. are ve

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I'm from New Iberia and have family all along this stretch. Although, there are some folks with English roots that have been in Delcambre/Erath so long they act more Cajun than I do!

For what it's worth, I was taught, while growing up, that the Cajuns out in Houma, Thibideaux, and surrounding areas were the 2nd wave.

My dads family is 100% coonass, but my mom's side is coonass/proper French...or as my Cajun relatives say "fancy French".

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What is the German Coast?

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Here’s some background from the German-Acadian Coast Historical and Genealogical Society

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The German and Acadian Coasts are not "coasts" as one would think of the term today as land along the seashore of an ocean. A coast by definition is "the land near the shore" but in this case, the shore is the land along the Mississippi River. During the 18th and 19th centuries the term coast was used to describe the distinct settlements situated just above New Orleans along the Mississippi River's edge. There are naturally two coasts. The left coast or left bank was the land located on your left-hand side if traveling down river (the east bank) and the right coast or right bank was the land located on your right-hand side if traveling down river (the west bank).

They are known as the German and Acadian Coasts for the first European settlers to establish along their shores. The "First German Coast" was located in current day St. Charles Parish along the west bank of the river between the current day communities of Killona and Taft, settled by Germans as early as the 1720s. As the settlement eventually grew, others began to settle further up river in present day St. John the Baptist Parish, near Edgard, thus the west bank of today's St. John the Baptist Parish became known as the "Second German Coast." Over the years, the population grew and the settlement was dispersed along the entire coast on both sides of the river and thus St. Charles and St. John the Baptist Parish collectively became known as the "German Coast."

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Below i10 except nola,and extending slightly northwest through point coupee and avoylles parish.

Lived in Terrebonne between birth and 3rd grade, and then 8th to graduation.

My grandparents and my mom all spoke Cajun French. My wife used to say that everyother sentence out my mouth contained the word mais.

Id say the Terrebonne cajun game is pretty strong.