I should have added that but I thought that would have been clear when I said they drank too much.
I recall when I was around 7 or 8 and in New Orleans I asked my dad why the people did not know how to drive.
“Boy, the people here are 50 years behind the times.”
And sure, I would rather kick off at 60 eating my mama’s gumbo than live to be 86 in Boston eating baked beans.
The two cultures of Louisiana have always been amazing to me. North Louisiana, where I was born, raised and still live, is more like Georgia, Alabama or Mississippi.
My antecedents, however are from South Louisiana and I have scads of relations around the Baton Rouge area. I keep in touch from time to time. They are definitely different.