[Repeal The 17th]

Some of my best friends in life have been Cajun.
They have a whole different outlook on like.
Laissez les bons temps rouler.

[BBell]

It's not just the Cajuns. The folks down here in Southern Louisiana pretty much all have that attitude. There is also a very independent streak amongst them. I've only lived here about 14 and a half years but it rubs off on you quickly.

Hurricane Katrina arrived at the end of August 2005. Some people predicated that Carnival, which starts Jan. 6th, and Mardi Gras would be called off for 2006. It did not happen and I went to several parades in 2006 and it was difficult to believe that we had just had a major hurricane 4 months earlier.. There was was devastation around but the locals did not not seem to care.

BTW, a lot of "locals" had not come back to New Orleans during 2006.