re: Louisiana: Local Elections

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I don't think so man. It's almost as if you are an elitest if you run as a republican in our area. I think that could change with Obama and more candidates locally known as good men can step out as Republicans. I haven't seen anyone even try in 6 years to run as a Republican.

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For the old folks, it all goes back to the Great Depression. This is what my late unle Benton told me about politics back then:

During the depression, when many people were starving and losing their homes, the democratic party owned a hog farm. In every major election, the democratic party would pick their candidate. If their candidate won, the hogs would be slaughtered and the meat would be given out to the voters to show the party's thanks for their vote. If their candidate lost, the hogs would be slaughtered and sold out of state. For people who were literally starving and needed that meat (a delicacy at the time) to survive, the message was received.