Louisiana is the best place to visit if you want to experience the Creole style of life.  It is the only state with a large population of Cajuns. And, The city of Kaplan is referred to as “The Most Cajun place on earth.”  They were descendants of the Acadians that were driven from their homes in Canada during the 1700s because they would not pledge allegiance to the King of England.  Mardi Gras is one of the biggest attractions in the state to visit.  It celebrates food and fun just before the 40 days of Lent, a Catholic time of prayer and sacrifice.

It was the center of disaster when Hurricane Katrina made landfall.  As the state devastated the most, they have gone a long way to repair the damage and ensure that it would never get that bad again.  There is much more to the state than its history and places to visit.

If you want to know more about the state, check this out.

• Church Point boasts the designation “The Buggy Capital of the World”. A festival celebrates this designation annually on the first weekend in June.

• Louisiana’s first territorial governor, William C.C. Claiborne had great admiration for the awkward bird that inhabited the Gulf Coast region. The pelican, rather than let its young starve, would tear at its own flesh to feed them. The Governor’s great respect for the Pelican led him to first use the Pelican symbol on official documents.

• In 1718 The French found New Orleans and marked “Cannes Brulee” on maps upriver in the area known today as the City of Kenner. French for “Burnt Canes”, Cannes Brulee was a name given by explorers who observed natives burning cane to drive out wild game.

• In 1803 the United States paid France $15 million for the Louisiana Territory. At 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River, the lands acquired stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border. Thirteen states were carved from the Louisiana Territory. The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size of the United States.

• Louisiana has the tallest state capitol building in the United States; the building is 450 feet tall with 34 floors.

There is plenty to learn about the state of Louisiana.  Living there would make it easier to understand.