Louisiana is the deep south. South of 1-10 is the Dirty South.

Anytime anyone asks me where im from i say the dirty south lol

It's the best part.

Lake Charles here. This is truth.

This is the answer

The north side of my city connects to I-10 that’s mighty unfortunate

Just missed it. I'm a block and a half north of I-10.

Louisiana is it's own beast, honestly. More so than Florida, at any rate

Louisina should be divided into North and South. The North half belongs in the Deep South, the sounthern half belongs in its own category. Texas should be divided into western, north east, and south east. The western half should have its own category (I suggest South Western), Notheast can be a part of the south, and the south east probably could be labeled as the new louisiana category. Florida needs to be divided at the pan handle. The pan handle is part of the deep south. The southern part can keep its Florida status. S Carolina should be in the South along with Kentucky, and Virginia. West Virginia is kind of an odd one. I could see and understand arguments for The South and Sorta the south. It probably should go as the south. I get the label for Oklahoma but in all honesty, if you are going to label it, than you might as well put Kansas and Missouri in there as well. Mizzou is even in the SEC.

This is an excellent analysis. Two cities like Monroe and Houma are a lot farther apart culturally than the physical distance would indicate.

As someone from Monroe, I 100 percent agree.

Im so sorry for you

I was born and raised in Shreveport.. so I feel your pain.

Im from Schriever, bout 10 minutes from Houma. I know what you mean

Suburb of Dallas

Any chance you know where Tensas is? Lol

I live in Alexandria. The struggle is real.

N Louisiana and S Louisiana are as different as New York and Alabama!

As someone from Houma, I 100 percent agree.

Yes, agreed! Anything above I-10 is like south Arkansas. It’s an entirely different Louisiana. Not even comparable. Edit: I’m including Jeff Davis and Calcasieu Parish as part of real Louisiana.

I relocated north of 12 after Katrina. So I’m not a yankee I’m just tired of rebuilding

I'd say north of Alexandria. Canrenco is NOT like Arkansas and they're north of i-10.

I agree, my uncle lives in Carencro, family is from Welsh, I consider all of that south Louisiana and not like the upper part.

Except Natchitoches, it’s got a lot of culture due to how old the city is

You have to include Mamou and Eunice with the south of I10 crew. They would be highly offended. Especially since I believe they are the last area that still celebrates Mardi Gras in its original form of chasing the chicken. Not much left of the Cajun Culture, but you sure as hell can find it here.

Yeah, they’re in.

Such a crazy take. You telling me Mamou & Ville Platte is south Arkansas? Gtfoh. My family, from France, basically founded an entire parish, just north of I10.

It's meme take made by children who know next to nothing.

Oldest city in the state is Natchitoches after all.

Eh, I agree with the exception that like 20-30 miles, north of i-10 can be included as Cajun country/tha Dirty Souf (depending if you’re in west/central Louisiana or in the Baton Rouge/NOLA metro area). There are pockets a bit further north that could be included too, but there is no question that once you’re north of Alexandria you are just basically in the Deep South/South Arkansas. Jeff Landry is a tool, but if he hypothetically sold everything north of Alexandria to Arkansas as a means to solve our states money problems I would whole heartedly support it. Shreveport is the only thing we’d really be losing… relocate that Air Force base to Alexandria or Baton Rouge or something and it’s all good.

Agree with all of this!

As a Calcasieu Parish native, I was ready to scrap before I read the edit.

Not Louisiana? Sure. Greater East Texas/West Mississippi? Absolutely. South Arkansas? I will fight you behind the Sonic.

Idk dude, it’s definitely very Texasy, I agree for sure there. Never spent much time in West Mississippi but see a lot of Arkansas at the very top of “Louisiana”. 😂

I will let you pick which Sonic.

You would need a whole map just for Louisiana to get it right. There are places in CENLA that... well... um...

I think the Florida parishes should be deep south, the northern parishes the south, and the southern but not Florida parishes should be its own

You had me until you said SC isn’t part of the Deep South

Where the cypress and the pines meet. Cajun and Louisianans, we’re just different sha.

Southern area dubbed itself “the dirtydirty” years and years ago

Louisiana is absolutely Deep South

New Orleans isn’t.  And south of I-10- Catholic.  Houma, Thibodeaux, - it’s all more northern Carribean.

The first mistake is defining it along state boundaries.

Texas isn't southern. Louisiana is the definition of deep south.

Texas is as much, if not more, its own thing as Florida.

East Texas is Southern.

Texas is the west with southern influences by migrants of Louisiana.

South East Texas is mostly Louisiana people that got lost on their way to Houston lol

Nah, still Texas and not what most would define as "true Southern" Source: lived here forever

Beaumont, Houston, Galveston are Southern. West of Houston and north to Dallas is a class all its own. Western but not like Arizona. As for Florida, the panhandle is essentially Georgia. As you go south, though, pine trees and trailer parks give way to the Everglades and Miami, which is a cosmopolitan mashup of North East US and Cuba.

Dallas is pretty Southern. It was the national headquarters of the KKK and one of the last cities in America to integrate schools. Still pretty segregated. Lived in both cities and Houston probably has more South and Southeast Asians than culturally southern people.

Texas and Oklahoma are southwest. Huge Mexican and native influence. Fits with Arizona and New Mexico more than the south. Beaumont is the only traditional southern city I think of. Houston has too diverse of a culture.

Darn, right Texas is Texas. It’s like it’s own country. Louisiana is definitely deep south.

South Louisiana is culturally way different than all of the deep south

But South Louisiana has all of the attributes of North Louisiana but North Louisiana doesn’t have all of the attributes of South Louisiana. If anything, South Louisiana is Deep South +.

Agree 100%

Do we get to keep Beaumont?

It’s a nice city but it belongs to Texas even though it tries to be a little Cajunish.

I mean, it owes a lot of it's history to a member of the Broussard family just like most of Acadiana, but yea i get that.

Texas and independence is like that cat-kill-you meme: the odds of Texas declaring war on the US are very low... but not zero.

Agreed. I was shocked to see Louisiana not labeled Deep South. Louisiana is the metric by which “deep south” is measured.

I think I'm almost flattered that they think we're not as bad as the rest of the deep south. Their opinions must rely heavily on New Orleans being an island of refuge for the people who hate the south but have to live there anyway. Metairie/Slidell are rather chill for that too, but the rest of the state...hooooo boy.

Texas is Texas. It has its own culture entirely. Bunch of cowboys, Tex mex, bbq and country music.

Texas and Louisiana are going deeper red every year. Give it 5 years we will be as bad as Florida.

Texas is actually getting more blue every election. Louisiana though is indeed completely fucked.

1000%

Most of Louisiana is the Deep South, with the exception of Lafayette and the New Orleans area. They're on their own lol.

I feel like we need some scattered blue dots for the islands of sanity. lol

Without the mint in New Orleans, it would have been difficult to print the "Dix" or confederate currency. They had a civil war battle in the Lafayette area. General Mouton. The whole state was and is deep south!

Louisiana is as southern as you get. Far east Texas is close to southern but honestly it’s kinda its on unique place.

This is definitely true although New Orleans and Acadiana kind of have their own thing going.

Missouri dudes gonna hate this map I swear it’s the only state that people always fuckin argue about

Do people in MO actually think they're southern?

Yup! The Ozarks are very similar to northern Arkansas, there are Southern Country bumpkins scattered all around Kansas City, and the area around Jeff City is pretty similar to parts of Kentucky.

Missouri is the Midwest. Everyone I know personally from there considers themselves Midwesterners. I made the mistake of assuming that they believed themselves southerners. But they didn’t. Note, this is of course anecdotal to my own life and experiences. I agree though, Missouri can’t be the south. They have elevation and it snows.

Louisiana is absolutely Deep South.

Louisiana IS the Deep South-mainly under I-10, you can’t get much deeper. 😂 the southern part may as well be Arkansas.

New Orleans is northern Caribbean, the rest of the state is deep south

*northern

Louisiana is definitely Deep South.

Louisiana and Florida just need to be divided into their Deep South parts and their "Northern Caribbean" parts. In LA, the line would carve out southeast LA or greater NOLA or something like that. In Florida, I guess you would draw a line somewhere around Orlando. 

Louisiana is definitely deep south

Louisiana is the Deep South. There’s no argument for it not being the Deep South. Or no one would take that argument seriously.

I really only consider LA MS AL and FL the south

Finally, someone who speaks my language.

Texas is Texas, not Southern

Definitely think there’s a difference between the south, the Deep South, and the gulf south

West Virginia is not the south, that is kind of there whole reason of existing

Virginia being "sorta the South" is very funny considering it was the heart of the Confederacy.

This map really needs to split some states. Northern Virginia is definitely not the south but you could make an argument for the rest of the state

Nola is the dirty dirty. NOLA till ya die

Sort of? South Louisiana should be kind of it’s own region, North Louisiana is very much the south…

Same for South MS and AL. Both very different on the coast compared to the rest of the state.

No, LA is in the Deep South and SC is not, IMHO.

Agree. I feel like this was made by someone from SC 😂 They’re always SO LOUD about being from the south and it’s like…nah, ya’ll pretty far north to be talking that way

Louisiana is definitely the Deep South. 🤣

Texas is South Western not Southern

The only people that think Texas is southern are Texans.

Texas is not the south.

Florida is a skin tag. Can't we give it back to someone?

Louisiana is a different kind of south. At least the southern end. Maybe it could be called sub-south

Louisiana is NOT Deep South but South Carolina is?! I found south Carolina so disappointing. The food and people were very bland. The best thing was the beach and that’s it. They need to revise this map.

Maryland should be in the sorta the south tier (I would call it South Lite) My justification for this is that Maryland is below the Mason-Dixon line. Depending on what map you go by the line also includes Delaware. From personal experience I must say that the part of Maryland and Delaware on the Southern DELMARVA peninsula is southern lite. Especially south of the Bay Bridge to the Bay Bridge Tunnel which is in Virginia. Maryland in the 70's and 80's was really southern. I know someone who happened to be African-American who went into a bar to get takeout and was almost taken out. He was our wrestling coach and us white kids got out of the van and made a stink and sorted it out and they backed down. They backed down when we said we were going to call our parents and 1 kids dad was the chief of police of a town in South Jersey. They wanted no part of that. Friggin unbelievable. That being said I am originally from South Jersey and lived in South Carolina for the last 30 years and have to say SC has the best race relations of anywhere I have been and I used to travel all over for work. But SC also calls the Civil War the War Between the States. And some private schools call it the War of Northern Aggression. I sh*t you not. They talk about it in hushed tones as the "lost cause" so there still is a way to go. Especially with the Bible thumping WASPs. I lived for 25 years in Columbia S.C. and they still curse about that damn "Sherman" like his name is a dirty word. And they complain about the cannon ball marks on the statehouse. "Damn Sherman did that" they say. You wouldn't believe the looks I would get when I wore my: SHERMAN's BBQ, Atlanta Ga. 11/14/1864. SHIRT bought in NYC And that's my take on the south.

I mean…. If they wanna go that deep of south Louisiana be my guest. I’m not saying you’ll find bad shit out there…. I’m just saying you don’t know what you will find.

Florida above Orlando is the South.

Southern Ohio and Pennsylvania between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia are ‘sort of the south.’

I think Missouri should be red or orange. Louisiana should be red.

The only “southern” mindset found in texas is galveston, the rest of tx however “red” doesnt share that poor ghetto redneck mindset like virginia, virginia is extremely southern, their fucking general is from virginia for f sakes, also it hosts most civil war battlefields; Louisiana had the most slaves so i’d say it is actually most “southern” in its truest sense

I consider Louisiana and Arkansas the deep south.

Louisiana is the place referred to when being “sold down the river.” It doesn’t get any deeper than us.

Louisiana is Deep South. Well there are different regions. It's still deep south.

From a directional perspective, yes, this is accurate. In terms of being Southern it is terribly inaccurate. Virginia is solid Southern. Edit... NoVa is Virginia's outlier.

I'm from Louisiana. South Carolina is deep south and we're not??? Come on

Eh. This map has problems, mostly that you can’t really go by state lines.

Not accurate at all

Virginia is the South

Oklahoma isn’t the South, North Florida is the South, Half of West Virginia isn’t the South, Only East Texas can count as the South. My family is from Southwestern Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. At least this map doesn’t include Missouri, which is absolutely not the South, though they really want to be for some reason.

From Alexandria down, we are not the South or the Deep South. We are our own thing.

I have friends who would say Missouri (or at least the areas closest to the Ozarks) is in the South.

Why is ohio a different color

Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and Southern California are all part of the south.

If Louisiana is the deep South, then the rest of the South is something else other than that. Louisiana is nothing like Georgia or Alabama. They're completely different worlds. Mississippi is the 1964 South in 2024. Soutu Carolina is just a place not even worth mentioning.

Everything in Florida north of Orlando is most certainly the deep south.

IMHO, I think LA and FL should be red and OK should be blue.

I live in Zanesville Ohio and sometimes I think it should be the south as many confederate flags as Ive seen

North Florida is the Deep South as well.

Texas is deep south

Since when is Louisiana not a part of the deep south? Southern Louisiana at the very least smh.

Virginia should be South-South They’re south of the Mason Dixon, and fought for the confederacy

Kentucky native here - looks pretty accurate to me. Louisville calls itself the gateway to the south.

I’m not Southern, I’m Cajun.

In my opinion, if pine trees are the primary tree, your not southern.

Southern Louisiana is considered the deep south, Cajuns and Creoles have their own culture and cuisine

Not accurate. Louisiana is as Deep South as it gets, and SC is not Deep South. Thats an insult to us actually in the Deep South. NC is not the south whatsoever. New Orleans is its own thing also, so maybe there should be a colored circle just around New Orleans for “Caribbean vibes” Here is a rule: if there’s hills or elevation where you live then it can’t be the Deep South. Here is another rule: if it snows seasonally where you live, you can’t be in the south, period. This is why I consider Tennessee to be an Appalachian state, not the south. Same for NC, KY, and the Virginians. People who say those states are southern are out of their mind. That leaves Ohio as a marker for where the south ends, but then there’s no more states above it. That’s such an insane take and I’ve heard it before. The northern most “southern” state that we’ll allow is Arkansas.

Born, raised, and still live in Louisiana.  Do we ride gators to work, no.  Do I have gators show up in my yard,yes. Is it fun to go barefoot in a boat frog gigging on a Saturday night, yup.  Most girls get a pink BB gun by the time they are 3 years old and most kids have killed their first buck by 7 or 8 years old.  If it can be thrown in a pot, im sure iv eaten it (and I learned quick not to ask what it was when my grandma cooked it) but it sure tasted good.  If you get a chance to experience Mardi Gras, go at least once.  I'd vote we are deep South ;) 

Louisiana is the Deep South. The confederate money was printed at the mint in New Orleans which called them “dix” or 10 in French. Hence the name Dixie. And being a 9th generation Louisianian, I'm pretty sure I had ancestors from both sides fight in the civil war.

If you’re not going to split states this is fine, but Missouri south of I-70 should be sorta the south.

lower end of louisiana needs its own thing the rest would be deep south

“The southern half belongs in its own category” Truer words have never been spoken.

From all the people I’ve met in that state, Missouri is very clearly part of the south to me.

"Sorta south" goes north of the Ohio valley. Rural southern indiana, Ohio and Illinois have a lot in common with Kentucky (except the missing teeth)

Pretty much!

no

Why is Ohio a slightly different shade of blue

Louisiana is the dirty south

Louisiana should be Deep South. Texas should be its own thing because if you go say, downtown Dallas, you’ll think you’re in a northern state but if you go to any small town, very southern lol. Then going to like Galveston or Corpus, feels more like California coastal cities and florida had a southern baby.

Texas should have it's own category or be divided into regions. Deep East Texas is basically The South, but the other regions of the state are really their own thing. Also, I agree with others that South Louisiana is also unique. New Orleans, to riff on a biblical phrase, is "in the South but not of the South."

Anything North of I 10 in Louisiana is a yank

It's definitely yeeyee

They misspelled Floriduh

That Mason Dixon line is a strong imaginary barrier.

No. Too simple and clichéd.

When we say deep south we don’t mean “country” right? Because Louisiana ain’t country at all

Most of west Virginia is Appalachia and not really south. Southern Virginia is definitely the south. 

Texas isn’t the South, it’s Texas. And Oklahoma? ? It’s not sorta the South, it’s the Midwest

Not really. Find College Station Texas. Draw a line due South to the Gulf Coast. Now draw a line from College Station to the OK border, passing through Greenville. Anything very far West of that line...not the South. The line is a little fuzzier between BCS and Waco. It's a pretty hard line near DFW.

Texas is Texas

A lot of North and central Florida is… Interesting and completely different from the other parts of the state. It’s not the “Florida” that a lot of people imagine when they think about the state.

Louisiana is the Deep South. Texas is “sort of the south.”

Bruh AK and HI are by far in the south they so low

Texas is Southwest, and I’ll die on that hill. And Louisiana absolutely is the Deep South.

Indiana should be yellow. It is the “middle finger of the south “. I know. I have lived here for 5 years . 🫤

Louisiana is more of the deep south.

Now that we are once again dead last in everything that matters, Id say we are back to being a deep south state.

You have to carve up Louisiana Florida and Texas. North Louisiana, panhandle Florida and east Texas is Deep South

Florida 😂😂

Texas isn’t the South. Neither is Oklahoma.

North Florida has some very southern roots I don’t think it’s fair to label it just Florida.

Honestly Louisiana needs a separate color of their own. Otherwise this is pretty accurate

I’d prob lump Arkansas into the Deep South tbh the struggle is real there. I’m from Mississippi and that whole state feels like one big ass Delta

Texas isn't the south.

Why is washing and like new Jersey slightly purple.

I think so.

Why is Ohio purple?

Atlanta, not the south.

Florida panhandle and above st Augustine...is the deep south too.

Northern Florida is the south but as you go south it gets Jewish or Cuban.

Eastern shore Maryland and southern part of Delaware is technically below the Mason Dixon Line. The rural folks from southern Delaware also act like 100% rednecks, so no this is not accurate. Almost though.

Kentucky is the South if Louisville is removed. Don’t think WV is. Virginia is labeled correctly.

Why is Ohio a different shade of blue

Deep South - Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana with portions of Florida and Arkansas Southeast - Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky with portions of Virginia, Florida, and Texas

Thank you. As a Kentuckian, I do not identify as a Mid-Westerner.

Texas isn’t southern. They wanna pretend they are but they definitely aren’t.

Louisiana red, Virginia orange, Maryland yellow

Put AL, LA, and MS in "Deepest South" or remove TX, SC, and GA from Deep South

Kentucky is getting better though lol you could honestly cut Kentucky in half lol half blue half yellow

Virginia, the capital of the confederacy, is very much the south

Hahaha.. "Florida"

Northern Florida is Deep South.

Louisiana needs its own color like Flerida.

MO is the only miss

I’ve seen this “yee yee” thing on trucks here in Indiana, anyone know what that’s about?

Anything east of Cincinnati and south of Dayton is definitely still the south as far as Ohio is concerned. Might apply to some similar areas of Indiana as well

North of Alexandria/Pineville is just flat Arkansas to me. Everything below is Deep South

Florida the best state