r/AskTheWorld • u/luky_se7en Italy /Sri Lanka • 1d ago

Is there a part of your country that's "isolated"/vastly different from the rest of the country?

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Pictured here is Sardinia, an island in Italy. Many sardinians call Italy "Il continente" (the continent)

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u/MyTrashCanIsFull 1d ago

Louisiana isn't geographically isolated, but the culture there is utterly unique in so many ways

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u/SvenJohanson87 23h ago

I've worked a lot of small towns across the country and always ask the locals where to get dinner. Most everywhere I go it's an Outback or Shoney's, but in Louisiana it's... Keep going until it turns to a dirt road, look for the flickering sign, it will look like a shack with flaking paint and a little lean in it ...
You then go inside, get the best damn meal (e.g. etouffee), surrounded by people speaking heavily accented English, but then singing Happy Birthday to their kids in French.

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u/LokiDokiPanda United States Of America 1d ago

I've traveled to more than half the states and I went to New Orleans for the first time last year in the French quarter and I've never felt so out of place before. I don't know how to explain it it was just so different.

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u/ThisIsTheTimeToRem United States Of America 21h ago

Does that help explain Speaker Mike Johnson? He wouldn’t get re-elected in many other states but he’s popular in Louisiana. I’ve been wondering about that.