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re: Why Do People From Lafayette Say Calcasieu Parish Is Not Acadiana?
Posted on 7/8/20 at 8:03 am to CouillonJean
Posted on 7/8/20 at 8:03 am to CouillonJean
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Why Do People From Lafayette Say Calcasieu Parish Is Not Acadiana?
It's like the cousin you see only at Christmas and Thanksgiving who's parents never got married because the kid was a mistake. They are part of the family, but its just different.
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Posted on 7/8/20 at 8:07 am to LSUgusto
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If you draw the bellcurve that outlines Cajun culture in South Louisiana, that line would capture Lake Charles, but not Sulphur.
I think it's safe to call a town Cajun whose best restaurants are named LeBleu's, Hollier's, Bergeron's, and Richard's.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 8:13 am to colorchangintiger
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think it's safe to call a town Cajun whose best restaurants are named LeBleu's, Hollier's, Bergeron's, and Richard's.
I read the whole thread and this is the best argument by far
Posted on 7/8/20 at 8:57 am to CouillonJean
Grew up in Lake Chuck, because it really isn't. Pre WWII it was rare to have a Cajun in Lake Chuck. The petrochem and refineries built during WWII brought them in to work. The area was mostly settled by German woodcutters for the timber forests to the north, and that wood built Galveston and Houston. Vinton and Iowa were settled by farmers who migrated from Iowa. East almost to Laffy, the area was mostly settled by German farmers during the late 1700's as well. Most, like my ancestors, adapted to French culture and language.
The area is much more like SE Texas. For 50+ years, I've regarded Jennings as being where Acadiana begins.
BTW, Lake Chuck is more Cajun than Baton Rouge, meaning BR isn't really either.
The area is much more like SE Texas. For 50+ years, I've regarded Jennings as being where Acadiana begins.
BTW, Lake Chuck is more Cajun than Baton Rouge, meaning BR isn't really either.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 9:13 am to CitizenK
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Pre WWII it was rare to have a Cajun in Lake Chuck
"Among these were a number of French refugees who had fled from France for political reasons. It is said that some of them were aristocratic in their lineage. The Acadians, who had been driven out of Nova Scotia in the latter part of the eighteenth century, left little trace of their coming in historical records, but the large number of their descendants who now live in Lake Charles and the Calcasieu country is sufficient evidence that many settled there." Includes my family.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 9:16 am to specchaser
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but they know how to skin a buck and run a trot line.
a lot of baws in Lafayette, Grand Isle, and most baws in New Orleans done know hot to do those 2 things. Nola Baws just know hot to put their boat in the MRGO and go fish the dam or the power plant. . This post was edited on 7/8/20 at 9:17 am
Posted on 7/8/20 at 9:23 am to tonydtigr
Si la merde pue, ils doivent être à Lake Charles
Posted on 7/8/20 at 9:27 am to LordSaintly
BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!!
Posted on 7/8/20 at 9:34 am to CitizenK
quote:Baton Rouge has a little bit of everything. Cajun, New Orleans, Florida Parishes, etc.
BTW, Lake Chuck is more Cajun than Baton Rouge, meaning BR isn't really either.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 9:39 am to CouillonJean
from what source is this caca. Lake Chuck was a timber town, biggest timber industry in Louisiana until the sawmills began closing pre-WWII on the lake and up the river.
As far as Cajuns, they were mostly in Cameron Parish, not so much in Lake Chuck. Post WWII the Cajuns who immigrated to work in the plants lived outside the city limits (then 12th Street) and went to Lagrange. McNeese adopted Jolie Blanc as its unofficial song to attract those from Cajun country, otherwise it was Calcasieu Parish and SE Texas source.
Your ancestors from the Sulphur Mines?
As far as Cajuns, they were mostly in Cameron Parish, not so much in Lake Chuck. Post WWII the Cajuns who immigrated to work in the plants lived outside the city limits (then 12th Street) and went to Lagrange. McNeese adopted Jolie Blanc as its unofficial song to attract those from Cajun country, otherwise it was Calcasieu Parish and SE Texas source.
Your ancestors from the Sulphur Mines?
Posted on 7/8/20 at 9:41 am to specchaser
quote:All rednecks "know how to skin a buck and run a trot line."
Lake Charles folk are kinda redneck but they know how to skin a buck and run a trot line.
Both are done all over Louisiana. I'm a certified North Louisiana redneck, and actually thought running trot lines was a pretty redneck thing to do. Not as redneck as frog gigging, but it's country. Both are better with beer. My cousins in Arkansas do more frog gigging than I ever did. Sometimes they say they're going frog gigging, and they're really just sitting on the levee, drinking beer.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 10:11 am to CouillonJean
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I am totally lost, people in Orange/Beaumont are a different world from LC/Westlake.
It’s not THAT much different. For those of you who don’t know, that part of SETX has a lot of Cajun transplants as does the LC area. Industry will do that. But all in all, Calcasieu is definitely not part of Acadiana. If you’re counting LC then you might as well count Baton Rouge.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 10:16 am to turnpiketiger
Live in LC, but don’t consider it Acadiana. You know those really large maps the states that you might see in a government office or classroom? Some used to have groups of parishes color coded. The western most parish of the group called “Acadiana Parishes” was Jeff Davis.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 10:19 am to Tigerfan1274
Posted on 7/8/20 at 10:38 am to Tigerfan1274
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You know those really large maps the states that you might see in a government office or classroom? Some used to have groups of parishes color coded. The western most parish of the group called “Acadiana Parishes” was Jeff Davis.
Ain't true bruh
Posted on 7/8/20 at 10:41 am to turnpiketiger
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that part of SETX has a lot of Cajun transplants as does the LC area.
I know Thibodeaux's and Hebert's raised in Beaumont/Orange area, they consider themselves Texans. Totally different. There are definitely people from all over south LA that are the real deal work in PA plants, but that's different.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 10:53 am to CouillonJean
I hate people that try to say they are from unique cultural area just because they live somewhat close to it.
Here in the Ms delta it’s people from Grenada/Winona/Carrollton claiming they’re from the delta. Annoys me to no end
Here in the Ms delta it’s people from Grenada/Winona/Carrollton claiming they’re from the delta. Annoys me to no end
Posted on 7/8/20 at 11:01 am to CouillonJean
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real fishermen from terrebonne or lafourche
Checking in
Take your redneck arse back to Texas
Posted on 7/8/20 at 11:02 am to deltaland
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Here in the Ms delta
Posted on 7/8/20 at 11:04 am to Thib-a-doe Tiger
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real fishermen
you got dem crappies stuck in dem big ears
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