> But growing up I always heard the term "coon ass" used to refer to > folks from Louisiana - I think Cajuns specfically. A lot of my family > is from Louisiana originally so I guess that's why I heard it, but I > was never clear exactly what a "coon ass" was.
Here's one definition, also from http://www.rsdb.net/: French-Canadian Exiles who migrated to Louisiana. Fur traders. Originated during WW2 when the French soldiers heard the Cajun-French American forces speaking a very old version of the French language peppered with slang, they called them 'conasse', which translates roughly to mean 'cheap whore'. Of course the other non-Cajun members of the American forces heard this as "Coon Ass", and it stuck. Dunno if that's really so, though. Lori ~
