re: YouTuber calls BR the most arrogant and imposing society ever

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It all comes from the fact that social status in Baton Rouge has never revolved around higher education.

So you’ve got a lot of not so smart, in some cases, straight up dumb people who make a ton of money, and everyone wants to be known as their friend.

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There are very very few places where the majority of social status is based on anything other than material wealth and power, which are now almost entirely synonymous.