[troutman]

Originally Posted by corporatejay

Perhaps you can explain? I thought it was a term of endearment used by the people of New Orleans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Dat%3F

http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-da...ase-of-who-dat

The whole phrase is “Who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints?”—and, while one could put it in the category of sports regionalisms like “dem Bums” and “go Stillers,” the Los Angeles Times’s Readers’ Representative has, for example, had to deal with a reader from La Puente who

said he was “outraged” by the headlines “couched in minstrel show dialect.”

“However, the usage is far from racist,” the Readers’ Representative said, noting that it was “ubiquitous in New Orleans,” and even the subject of an N.F.L. copyright dispute. (The N.F.L. backed down, sort of.) But the Times acknowledged that the phrase “does go back to minstrelsy.”