CeeTee,have spent six or seven summers working on a children's camp in North Carolina and subsequently travelling and staying with friends in NC,SC,Georgia,Loisiana,Alabama,Arkansas,Mississippi...
Am really into the food,the buildings,the music (did my Clarksdale and Memphis pilgrimage!)the whole way of life.
One of my favourite cookbooks is called 'Cajun Foodways' which,as the blurb goes is a 'study of the relationship between Cajun food and modern Cajun identity'.
Speak French,which adds to my interest.
Are you American? Did you escape the wrath of Katrina?