|  The soil of Louisiana was carried down from the central valley of the United States by the Ouachita, Mississippi, Red, Sabine, and Pearl rivers. Much of the state is a flat, moist, rich-soiled delta with a distinct historic and ethnic atmosphere.
The area was discovered by Spaniards, named by the French (for Louis XIV), and settled by both. People with the blood of those French Canadians driven from Acadia (Nova Scotia) by the British in 1755 are called Acadians ("Cajuns"). Americans of English, Irish, and German origin also helped settle Louisiana.
The land is semitropical, beautifully unusual, full of legend and tradition; a land of bayous with cypress and live oak overhung with Spanish moss. Some of its people live in isolation on the bayous and riverbanks, where they still fish, trap, and do a little farming. Southern and southwestern Louisiana are predominantly Roman Catholic;...
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