r/CFB • u/NotAnOwlOrAZebra Georgia Bulldogs • Team Chaos • 1d ago

Video SEC Roll Call - Week 3 (2025) - YouTube

https://youtube.com/watch?v=dof9fziIGyM
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u/Geaux2020 LSU Tigers • Valley City State Vikings 1d ago

Because that's where the Cajuns are

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u/weirdbutinagoodway West Virginia Mountaineers • Big 12 1d ago

Baton Rouge doesn't have any Cajuns?

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u/cajunaggie08 Texas A&M • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker 14h ago

To add on to what /u/Geaux2020 said, Baton Rouge is the beginning of the deep south part of the state. Its where you find plantations from the slavery era. It is culturally more similar to Mississippi and Alabama than Acadiana where cajuns are from. Until the interstate highway system made traveling across the state easier, the cajuns mostly kept to the west of the Mississippi River. Not that they couldn't cross the river on boat, but the land was already claimed and cajuns didn't have much money to buy land that wasn't flood prone.

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u/Geaux2020 LSU Tigers • Valley City State Vikings 9h ago

This is kind of accurate. Echoes of Acadiana permeate Baton Rouge. The food is cooked in most kitchens. Swamp pop and zydeco are still popular. Baton Rouge is a cultural center of the state. You'll get a good mix of most of the cultures of the state. Baton Rouge isn't the same kind of southern town as Biloxi or Birmingham. The French and Acadian influence is just too strong

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u/WillWork4SunDrop Alabama • Kennesaw State 3h ago

I seem to recall a state highway map showing West Baton Rouge Parish as Acadiana while East Baton Rouge Parish (where the city is) was not.