re: Why is Louisiana so divided?

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That is such a lie. South Louisiana makes fun of North Louisiana way more than the other way around.

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That's utter bullshite. It's about equal and it isn't mean spirited, for the most part, just more of an acknowledgement of how different we are.

I have spent quite a bit of time in North Louisiana and made quite a few friends there, but we really had little in common culturally other than love of the outdoors.

Got an Uncle that lives in North Louisiana. Somewhere up and around Jena. That mfer hates South Louisiana and wishes North Louisiana would concede and make their own state. Think he's gonna run for state representative soon to and push hard for it

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Now, I haven't spent a significant amount of time in every state in the US, but the only state I can think of that may have such a sharp cultural divide within the state is North v. South Florida.

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Western and Eastern Pennsylvania are like this. Pittsburgh and Philadelphia could not be more different culturally.

Also, Upstate NY vs NYC area.

The only thing I know for sure is that everyone from West Monroe is trashy.

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You have a point , perhaps CENLA would be better ,it's really a buffer zone between the Cajun region and the Protestant Belt.

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It’s weird how there’s little to no buffer zone IRL. One town is cajun then you cross a creek or something and it’s twangy. Alexandria is a real estimated buffer zone.

I-12 corridor is more like Florida panhandle than it is South LA

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They are not the same state.

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Really?

I love north Louisiana. I love south Louisiana. I’ve never understood the disdain that many from south Louisiana feel towards the north.

I always thought it was pretty damned cool that we lived in a state with such cultural diversity.

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but I don’t have a reason to hate it

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How about letting 1 car in at a time on f'ing interstate

Huey Long is the last person to blame.

You might find his methods conflict with your opinion of "good government" but Huey put ALL rural Louisiana on the map.

It would have been decades before some poor kid could have gone to college, much less LSU.

As to the topic of north vs. south, no one I know in central or north LA has any disdain for S. LA other than everyone seems to hate NOLA, or what NOLA has become.

I am in south LA more than north LA for work and I can say that with a few exceptions, folks in S. LA are fine folks.

Now when you get to the money snobs around Baton Rouge or Lafayette, they both seem to look down on anyone but themselves or their circle. But frick them, they treat their own neighbors the same way.

Louisiana certainly is a unique place in how different each area is. Just on the Northshore Slidell has more in common with New Orleans than any place on the Northshore. Slidell is nothing like Mandeville or Covington. Covington and Mandeville are sort of alike but one Covington is Old Money and Mandeville is new transplant money. Covington actually has some charm to it but outside of the lakefront area Mandeville is nothing but strip malls with no character. The you have Old Madisonville which more in common with Ponchatoula than it does Mandeville and New Madisonville which is nothing transplants and subdivisions. Bogalusa is closer to Picayune than anything in Louisiana. Franklinton isn't much better. Ponchatoula and Hammond certainly have some similarities being so close to each other but the people are much different. You can lump Amite, Independence and Kentwood together.

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