[BBell]

We like to drink here but we don't like it to get out of hand. Drinking in public, at parades, in parks or what ever is fine. If it gets out of hand the Cops will thump you and everyone down here knows that. It's the ignorant tourist who think anything goes who are the worst. They come from states that only allow you to drink at home or in certain establishments and when they see how it is in some places here they go nuts, thinking anything goes. Then they get thumped, and arrested.

[DannyTN]

I grew up in Louisiana and I remember driving in Baton Rouge and every other car was swerving. There weren’t that many tourists!

Louisiana’s like to drink, not just tourists. Last I checked, Louisiana had the highest alcohol consumption per capita in the nation, despite the northern half being dry. It might not be dry anymore, we were losing that battle when I left.

The cops will thump Louisianas too. And sometimes when they thump them they get incarcerated and thus the high incarceration rate.

[DannyTN]

I will say this, I spent a couple of semesters going to all the cajun festivals. There is a big difference the closer you get to the cities in the drinking. The small town festivals drink too, but they don’t drink to excess. The closer you get to the cities, the drinking to excess goes way up. But that ain’t tourists, that’s just city folk.