Originally Posted by FiftySix

I'm no native Louisianan, that's for sure. Even though I'm Texan by birth and all that, I've lived in Pineville and my wife is from Baton Rouge. Her side of the family is generations deep in the Opelousas to Baton Rouge area. I get the pleasure of visiting her vast family there on occasion.

In the 1990s I had some boarders in my house that were fresh college grads that were from Houma. Those guys were serious party animals that would go back home once a year for the local Mardis Gras. They were on a krew of some sort, it blew me away how much money they had to come up with to put a float in the parade and buy "grosses" of beads.

There's one thing for sure we got plenty of in Southeast Texas, and that is a ton of LSU graduates, new or old.