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Is there, like, anything GOOD about Louisiana?

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There are three Louisianas:

- New Orleans

- Cajun Country

- Eastern East Texas/southern Arkansas

The first two are the source of many unique, wonderful aspects of American culture.

The third is the source of this mayor/judge, a petrochemical regulatory regime that makes Texas producers envious, and the current Speaker of the House.

The food, including Cajun & Creole, crawfish, The French Quarter, Mardi Gras, voodoo, bayous, the music (birthplace of jazz), Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, salt domes/caverns (which is why much of the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve is located there), the template for haunted mansions and graveyards.

Happy Turducken Day :)

Almost entirely aspects of black culture, which is still extremely persecuted there. The south is still extremely backwards.

Can you elaborate?

I count 3-4 out of 12 items in that list as being specific to black culture.

And AFAIK they're celebrated there, not persecuted (perhaps with the exception of voodoo.)

> Aspects of black culture

Are you implying pathological cultural appropriation or is there another aspect I'm missing between the lines here?

Like, black culture is part of the larger homogenous culture, no?

Did you maybe intend to reply to the GP?

Yess

You forgot "Your Honor"

I vacillate between liking it here and hating it here. I'm currently middling between; but we certainly hope you enjoy our peppers and hot sauce (buffalo wing sauce originated here, and tobasco peppers are grown here, with the sauce named such manufactured here), whisky, soybeans, cotton, feed corn, sugarcane, music (not just zydeco and jazz, but Dirty Southern Rap, etc,) wood, and oil refineries. We don't enjoy that last one so much as they don't pay taxes and leave the citizens to rot and choke.

And the biggest thing about louisiana that is "good": It isn't Texas. As i've always said, you feel like wasting exactly 24 hours sometime, drive I-10 through texas.

I've worked with some absolutely lovely people at Stennis Space Center / NOAA, who I believe live(d?) in Louisiana.

It's sometimes unfair (and inaccurate) to paint with such a broad brush.

Ya, but I don't see any harm in getting people talking resulting in all these NICE things surfacing

Edit: nice Spaces, I agree as well

Drive through daquiri bars

This CAN't be a thing...?!

It is. There are also drive through beer stores.

That, to me, while ostensibly outrageous on the face, still kinda makes sense to me even tho its weird there's no technically drive through grocery shopping. Maybe a place like in Las Vegas where Michael Jackson was buying all the crazy-expensive art would have a wing dedicated to that but wow.

We all like the sauce a little too much, but most of us wouldn't be seriously perusing this "resource" and I hope its customers are "ok"...

NOLA! Love that city. It has everything- food, music, and drinks.

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