When I was 19 or so I started in the oil patch (in the summers) as a surveyor/ navigator with Digicon Geophysical and several other smaller outfits that were looking for oil and natural gas in the Gulf so I spent a lot of time in Fourchon, New Orleans and Baton Rouge. I have been to Shreveport as well but it has been a while.
It has been a while since I have spent any large amount of time in LA. My last trip down I was in New Orleans looking for LA 1 so I could get to Fourchon. This was two in the morning by the way. The only person who would help me find the highway was a this huge woman who was a prostitute. Her direction's were perfect.
So I can honestly say the our good ole southern hospitality even runs down to the prostitutes
If I'm down there again I'll shoot you a PM and we can meet up but I don't think it will be anytime soon, unfortunately, I just don't have time to travel anymore.....