re: Why is Louisiana so divided?

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Louisiana is a room full of retarded children arguing about which is the least retarded and why. At the end of the day it doesnt really matter and nobody cares except the retarded children in the room.

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You sure you're not talking about California?

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Louisiana is a room full of retarded children arguing about which is the least retarded and why.

At the end of the day it doesnt really matter and nobody cares except the retarded children in the room.

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Compensation for living in a state that's pretty much last in everything.

You forgot one - East Baton Rouge hates Livingston Parish

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South LA is a world and culture of it's own it's unique & noticeably different, while North LA is just like many southern states and blends in with the South and doesn't stand out.

It's easy to point fingers, laugh and shite on anything on a message board when you wouldn't do it in a face to face setting. I feel certain Louisiana people have State pride and deep down they love each other.

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I've known a lot of people from N LA in my life and I've liked most of them

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I am convinced there are more Cowboys fans in Houston, than Texans fans

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Before Cal McNair shite on his daddy's legacy and ran the Texans into the ground, that was the most underrated fan rivalry in the NFL. Even the annual preseason games were sellouts for a good 10 year stretch. Those Saturday night tailgates had a lot of nastiness and good old fashioned hate.

I was at the inaugural Texans game when they beat the Cowboys on a Sunday night. One of the most electric atmospheres I have ever experienced.

Oh no…..north Louisiana does not hate South La. It’s most def the other way around. Growing up & living here, all I ever here is that North La isn’t real “Louisiana” and is often looked down on.

Louisiana has a ton of diversity, and I don’t mean that in a (haha look at me using a euphemism for black people) kind of way. Legitimately, the state has a ton of ethnic, religious, racial, linguistic, and economic diversity. As a result, each corner of the state has entirely different values, wants, and needs from each other part of the state. New Orleans is a port town with a lot of creoles, Jews, transplants, and Italians that survives on tourism. Plaquemines and St. Bernard are full of Italians, Canary Islanders, and Croatian fishermen. Lake Charles and Baton Rouge are petrochemical factory towns with large black populations which need infrastructure. Houma/Thibodaux are cajun sugarcane farmers and oilfield workers. Lafayette and New Iberia are oil field services companies with Catholic Lebonese, Cajun, and Canary Islanders. North Louisiana is predominately anglo protestant soybean and cotton farmers. CenLa has loggers. The north shore is suburban sprawl and loggers.

These areas each have different cultural values, economic niches, and needs that aren’t necessarily shared with other regions of the state. They barely even speak the same language!!! Folks from Chalmette, Shreveport, Cut Off, and Livingston all have completely different accents from one another to the point that they could have trouble communicating. Heck, Gonzales and Lutcher are only about a 15 minute drive from one another yet sound like they’re from different planets!

Because the state government has a very top down structure where all of the decisions and funding are at the state level, these regions, industries, and interests must compete against each other in Baton Rouge for resources. In addition, these populations and cultures developed in relative isolation from one-another for decades up until 2005 to the point that most folks were born and died where their parents and grandparents did. This works out as one would expect with a political and cultural Balkanization of sorts.

In the end, Louisiana is an unhappy marriage of multiple incompatible cultures that are forced to compete with one-another for resources due to our centralized, socialist, authoritarian state government.

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New Orleans hates the North Shore.


I wish this was true

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Me too... I hate New Orleans and their trashy people.

The region you live in has much more to do with your life than the state as whole. Life in Bastrop isn't all that similar to Mandeville.

Outside of sharing government at the state level, many of these regions aren't all that similar. I live closer to Woodville, MS than New Orleans. As close to Pensacola, FL as Shreveport. Nobody really compares the cultures of those areas.