re: Map of population changes across the US

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Louisiana was never an industrial state, so they don’t have that excuse to use

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You’re forgetting that a huge part of Louisiana’s identity and economy was being the slave capital of America at one time. New Orleans had the largest slave market in the entire country by the 1850s, if I’m correct.

The economy in Louisiana was always favored to the elitist-planter class while everyone else was poor whites who lived in huts or were indentured servants. That’s how it was and when the Union won the Civil War, Louisiana was never able to adapt and diversify to new industries. The way the culture was set up, a very small group of wealthy aristocrats basically owned the state while everyone else was dirt poor peasants. That’s the way it was then, and that’s the way it is now. And it will never change