Florida or Louisiana?

[tmazanec1]

The Wikipedia article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsters_Inc says Randall ended up in Florida. Which is correct, and why? If it is Louisiana, I would prefer that someone here more...expert...correct it, as they can defend their position better on the discussion page and keep it from being changed back.

[lizardgirl]

Florida? Well, I really don't know much about either of those two places, but as far as I'm aware, due to the people's accents and generally how the place looked, it was Louisiana, but I could be wrong.

[pitbulllady]

tmazanec1 said:

The Wikipedia article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsters_Inc says Randall ended up in Florida. Which is correct, and why? If it is Louisiana, I would prefer that someone here more...expert...correct it, as they can defend their position better on the discussion page and keep it from being changed back.

One thing you have to realize is that ANYBODY, and I mean ANYBODY, can write and/or edit ANYTHING on Wikipedia.org! This means that a LOT of really awful and false information, and outright spam, gets put up on Wikipedia, so you really do not know what to believe anymore.

I've been to both Florida and Louisiana several times. I've also got an "ear" for accents and dialects. MOST of the people in Florida nowadays were not born there, but born somewhere up North, or they were born in a completely different country, usually a Latin American one. Even most of the real natives are so influenced by tourists and "snowbirds" who've immigrated down to the Florida, that they talk like New Yorkers or Detroiters or New Englanders or Cubans. Only along the extreme northern border of the state, where it touches Georgia and Alabama, will you hear what most people would consider a "Southern" accent.
That being said, the kid in that trailer, into which Randall was thrown, had a very distinctly Cajun accent, of a particular dialect found in southern Louisiana, south and west of New Orleans, in a region known as the "Bayou Region" or "Da Basin", as in "Atchafalaya Basin". Now the woman, for some reason, did NOT-she has an accent more typical of rural Arkansas, so I have to assume that she is no more a native of Louisiana than Randall is, but probably married(or "shacked up" with)a Cajun man, and the kid was born there, and his accent and speech patterns are more typical of the area in which he has grown up and attended school.

Also, the type of vegetation, with Cypress trees and Spanish Moss, is typical of southern Louisiana, but in Florida, this is again primarily found in the northern parts of the state, where a Cajun accent would stick out worse than, well, a 12-ft-long purple talking lizard monster would! In southern Florida, down in Everglades-Lake Okeechobee country, scrub Palmetto(or "Cabbage Palms")and Tupelo predominate, and there are huge expanses of open grassland actually floating on top of shallow water. Dense, thick, old-growth swamp is virtually non-existant. Alligators are, of course, found in great abundance in both states, as they are here in my native South Carolina, where we have "Gator Crossing" signs near many large riverways. In Louisiana, though, 'gators are not thought of so much as a menace and a nuisance as they are in Florida(where again, most people come from places where you'd have to worry more about muggers than 'gators), as they are one of the five major food groups! Those people in that trailer(which was probably a government-issued relic of Hurricane Andrew's rampage in 1992, and yeah, it hit Louisiana, too) were not afraid of Randall, whom they thought was a "gat-uh", but actually seemed quite elated that he showed up, no doubt because this would save them a trip to the meat market and let them spend the welfare check on something else.

pitbulllady

[tmazanec1]

I have edited it and put a link to this discussion. The wikipedians are pretty good about correcting errors and eliminating spam.

[RandallBoggs]

Yeah in terms of the Wikipage for Randall, I was going to make the page on the site myself but I didn't get the data from everyone when I asked.