Cajun Country - USA

April 2003
Tourists may flock to New Orleans, but the real Cajun Country lies further south on the Gulf of Mexico, in the Louisiana swamplands.

With Janis Joplin seeping from the car stereo, Evan Williams sets out in search of the people who regard themselves as "American by birth but Cajun by the grace of God."

Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

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[GeauxSaints53]

you said it was "briefly French"

it was actually briefly Spanish and French for longer

[lukebilleaudeaux08]

ok guys i'm gonna clarify something. My whole family is Cajun. i'm realted to almost every cajun family you can think of. Even with all this, i have choctaw, cherokee, and seminole blood, this mixture happend cause my great grandparents and before them, married into Indians. they were cajuns, had children with indians, and now I am here. and yes most of us have a slight permanent tan.

[nInAg114]

@fusilier45 Nice language. However, I think it accurately reflects what Cajuns can expect from the British "crown". Since no remuneration is being requested, it would be a purely symbolic gesture and a conciliatory action, at least for those who feel strongly about this. But who are we kidding here, they won't waste their breath or the paper to write anything on. Stating all that, I think we have done very well for ourselves, thank you very much.

[nInAg114]

I am aware of the Galiza region being autonomous of Spain but I am unfamiliar with the series you are asking about. All I can say is Dixon is not a "Cajun" name, per se. We are of French ancestry, although there is a lot of Spanish blood mixed in here along with American Indian, German, Irish, a little Scottish. I'll even hazard that we'll admit to a little English blood here and there....

[smagator]

@nInAg1 i am from galiza in europe and i saw the serial '' the walking dead'' so i like the character of´´ Daryl Dixon ´´ can you tell if is he a cajun please? because somedy told me he is

[xplosivelilly]

@weirdemails he meant european cleansing...

[shair00]

I love the cajun culture and would love to live like that!!

[iAmMountainMan]

I love the city of New Orleans on the whole because of the locals, but for the past 20 years, even before Katrina's devistation, it started attracting a strange brew of tranny bimbo freaks, gangster thuggery and petty criminal purse snatchers, which ruined it...

These days New Orleans is overly crowded with chronically dumbed-down, perpetually doped-up miscreants, vagrant-drunkards and far too many street trash hustlers turning this once idyllic and historical area into a living human shithole!!

[nInAg114]

I am happy to be Cajun but I think it is time to let go of the derangement thing, bud, and enjoy everything we have today and the people we have become in spite of all our hardships. I agree with Savoy, the music is the glue.

[005658able]

I am Charles Thibodeaux and I live here in south Louisiana. There is no other people like this any where. If there is a recession or depression and you live here and KNOW how to live, chances are you will hardly notice because there is always food and everybody here trys to help everybody. Its not like this everywhere else. If you know where to get the food and how to get it, you will never ever go hungry.

[mpg895]

such a sad story! It's beautiful to see other people trying to preserve their language and culture. Btw, I'm french canadian :)

[barbsreviews]

Wow I have been here forever watching your uploads I gotta go but will be back Later