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by dottrap 939 days ago
The food, including Cajun & Creole, crawfish, The French Quarter, Mardi Gras, voodoo, bayous, the music (birthplace of jazz), Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, salt domes/caverns (which is why much of the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve is located there), the template for haunted mansions and graveyards.

Happy Turducken Day :)

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Almost entirely aspects of black culture, which is still extremely persecuted there. The south is still extremely backwards.
Can you elaborate?

I count 3-4 out of 12 items in that list as being specific to black culture.

And AFAIK they're celebrated there, not persecuted (perhaps with the exception of voodoo.)

> Aspects of black culture

Are you implying pathological cultural appropriation or is there another aspect I'm missing between the lines here?

Like, black culture is part of the larger homogenous culture, no?

Did you maybe intend to reply to the GP?
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