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Posted on 1/17/14 at 12:40 pm to northalabamacracker
You're getting too much into the specifics. I've already said twice in the thread I shouldn't have said specifically "cajun" culture.
Fact remains that the LSU fanbase and the Saints are nearly culturally similar. Whatever "coonass" joke anybody can pull on a LSU fan, you probably can apply the same to a Saints fan. That was the whole point of my post.
Fact remains that the LSU fanbase and the Saints are nearly culturally similar. Whatever "coonass" joke anybody can pull on a LSU fan, you probably can apply the same to a Saints fan. That was the whole point of my post.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 12:42 pm to StopRobot
Not me
Saints are more of a regional fan base similar to what New England has. I know that alot of Bama fans are Saints fans
Auburn tends to have more Falcons and Titans fans in their neck of the woods
Saints are more of a regional fan base similar to what New England has. I know that alot of Bama fans are Saints fans
Auburn tends to have more Falcons and Titans fans in their neck of the woods
Posted on 1/17/14 at 12:42 pm to GCTiger11
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You're getting too much into the specifics. I've already said twice in the thread I shouldn't have said specifically "cajun" culture.
sure there are other parts of LA that are drastically more cajun than New Orleans.
But to act like the cajun culture is not very strong in New Orleans is flat out wrong.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 12:43 pm to cas4t
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New Orleans and the cajun culture are nearly identical
Ok. The food is the same to me, I give you that, but that is where the similarities end in my opinion, no matter what about.com says.
When I think of native new orleans music and cajun music I think of two very different things.
And I have never met a native New Orleanian that spoke cajun french like my in-laws.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 12:44 pm to StopRobot
No, why would it? I'd rather them be saints fans than falcons fans.
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Posted on 1/17/14 at 12:44 pm to cas4t
I am pretty sure New Orleans was founded by Catholics that were not cajun. 
Posted on 1/17/14 at 12:45 pm to northalabamacracker
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New Orleans and the cajun culture are nearly identical
This was a stretch, I'll give you that
but Mardi gras in itself is highly influenced by cajun culture
and again, the Catholic influence came when the Acadians came to South LA and many of them set up shop in new Orleans
Posted on 1/17/14 at 12:45 pm to northalabamacracker
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am pretty sure New Orleans was founded by Catholics that were not cajun
Acadians actually
which is where the wrod 'cajun' derives from
eta idk if I'd say 'founded', but over 3000 Acadians set up shop in New Orleans, and then wrote to their families to come live there. They obviously also went west of New Orleans.
I'll find a link.
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The Acadians' migration from Canada was spurred by the Treaty of Paris (1763) which ended the war. The treaty terms provided 18 months for unrestrained emigration. Many Acadians moved to the region of the Atakapa in present-day Louisiana, often travelling via the French Colony of Saint-Domingue (present day Haiti).[6] Joseph Broussard led the first group of 200 Acadians to arrive in Louisiana on February 27, 1765 aboard the Santo Domingo.[7] On April 8, 1765, he was appointed militia captain and commander of the "Acadians of the Atakapas" region in St. Martinville.[8] Some of the settlers wrote to their family scattered around the Atlantic to encourage them to join them at New Orleans. For example, Jean-Baptiste Semer, wrote to his father in France:
My dear father [...] you can come here boldly with my dear mother and all the other Acadian families. They will always be better off than in France. There are neither duties nor taxes to pay and the more one works, the more one earns without doing harm to anyone.
—Jean-Baptiste Semer, 1766
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Posted on 1/17/14 at 12:55 pm to cas4t
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and let's certainly not forget about Mardi Gras, which was started by Acadians (which is where the word 'cajun' derives from).
Uh no.
And have you ever spent Mardi Gras day in Church Point? Absolutely nothing like Mardi Gras in New Orleans other than everyone gets hammered drunk.
Plus we all know the first Mardi Gras was in Mobile.
I don't even care.
I am just presenting my inlaws arguement.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 12:56 pm to northalabamacracker
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and let's certainly not forget about Mardi Gras, which was started by Acadians
No it was not
Posted on 1/17/14 at 12:57 pm to northalabamacracker
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And have you ever spent Mardi Gras day in Church Point? Absolutely nothing like Mardi Gras in New Orleans other than everyone gets hammered drunk
Oh I know. I haven't, actually, but I know the differences. I'm not claiming New Orleans is 100% cajun. But the music at Mardi Gras has French (hence cajun) influence.
And Mobile was originally Louisiana.
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I am just presenting my inlaws arguement.
I bet they're cajun as frick.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 1:03 pm to cas4t
I know where the term cajun comes from.
I could have swore New Orleans was founded about 50 years before the Acadians set foot in Louisiana?
[link=(For the first 10 years of the exile (1755-1764), there is no documentation that Acadians made their way to Louisiana)]LINK[/link]
I could just about swear that New Orleans was founded in 1718?
I could have swore New Orleans was founded about 50 years before the Acadians set foot in Louisiana?
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For the first 10 years of the exile (1755-1764), there is no documentation that Acadians made their way to Louisiana
[link=(For the first 10 years of the exile (1755-1764), there is no documentation that Acadians made their way to Louisiana)]LINK[/link]
I could just about swear that New Orleans was founded in 1718?
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La Nouvelle-Orléans (New Orleans) was founded May 7, 1718,
Posted on 1/17/14 at 1:06 pm to StopRobot
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No it was not
I could be wrong here but Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and Jean Baptiste Le Moyne were both from Motreal. They were the brothers who started mardi gras in Mobile.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 1:08 pm to northalabamacracker
You're correct, but I have always thought the 2 brothers were Acadians.
I guess that could be wrong.
I guess that could be wrong.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 1:09 pm to cas4t
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I bet they're cajun as frick.
You have no idea. Ayyy-Eyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 1:09 pm to northalabamacracker
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I could have swore New Orleans was founded about 50 years before the Acadians set foot in Louisiana?
This may be hard to believe but NOLA has changed a lot since the 1700s and Cajuns have moved around quite a bit since then.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 1:10 pm to northalabamacracker
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Ayyy-Eyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 1:14 pm to cas4t
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I could be wrong here but Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and Jean Baptiste Le Moyne were both from Motreal. They were the brothers who started mardi gras in Mobile.
Le Moyne and d'Iberville were not Cajun and they were in Mobile when Mardi Gras started but not sure they actually did it.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 1:14 pm to northalabamacracker
I can't help but remember that my friends would almost act offended when I would refer to them as cajun when I first moved here. I thought the whole state was majority cajun. They informed me that "cajun people" were from places like Houma.
Then I met my wife from St. Laundry and she informed me that people from Houma were not real cajuns and my in-laws informed me that New Orleans was not real Louisiana.
It all just gets so damn confusing.
They are New Orleans Saints fans btw.
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