I am in my mid 40s, and as a kid in Cajun country you usually had a pretty good idea of how often older folks (grandparents and older) socially interacted on a

I am in my mid 40s, and as a kid in Cajun country you usually had a pretty good idea of how often older folks (grandparents and older) socially interacted on a casual basis with the other side of the white / black divide by how well they knew the rules to four card games. The black communities usually played either Hearts or Spades. The white communities would instead play either Bourre (boo-ray) or the Louisiana variant of Pedro (pee-droh). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourr%C3%A9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourr%C3%A9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_(card_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_(card_game) In unknown mixed company, most would settle on Hearts at first as it's the easiest to understand, and then usually alternate between Pedro and Spades.