re: How come nationally recognized gangs never proliferated in Louisiana?

Hattiesburg is def gang infested. GD's, Vice Lords, Simon City Royals are all there and throughout the Pinebelt and really all over Mississippi. The GD's and Vice Lords originated in Chicago decades ago and a lot of poor families migrated from there to the Delta. Not recently but decades ago. This is how Mississippi became infiltrated. Then it just spread over time from there all throughout the state