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re: Is every small town in Louisiana more or less exactly the same?
Posted on 7/28/19 at 10:43 am to TDcline
Posted on 7/28/19 at 10:43 am to TDcline
Read the "Hillbilly Elegy" by J.D. Vance - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillbilly_Elegy
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Posted on 7/28/19 at 11:14 am to NPComb
Erath typically has a well ranked school. Kaplan and Abbeville are dumps.
The OP is making this is a Louisiana problem, it isn’t. Unless the small town is located in good climate or in proximity to a cool outdoors scene, it’s likely a dump, especially in the south. People who can get out have gotten out. The towns are left with a small upper class of professionals who run things and a giant underclass of poor rednecks and culcha.
The OP is making this is a Louisiana problem, it isn’t. Unless the small town is located in good climate or in proximity to a cool outdoors scene, it’s likely a dump, especially in the south. People who can get out have gotten out. The towns are left with a small upper class of professionals who run things and a giant underclass of poor rednecks and culcha.
Posted on 7/28/19 at 11:22 am to fr33manator
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When you take away people’s pride and purpose and make him dependent to the govt, this is what happens.
Unless poverty is truly painful, it takes a lot of willpower to pull yourself out of it. It takes discipline and drive. It’s easy to suck on the govt tit and live in relative comfort. Food available, entertainment, lodging. And it goes unappreciated.
An earlier poster had it right. These towns used to have stores and mills, and farming used to require many many more hired hands. Those stores were wiped out by Wal-Mart's, and farming mechanization got larger.
Without opportunities for jobs, poorer people are trapped. The average person can't pull themselves up by their bootstraps working a minimum wage job. It takes more than hard work, there has to be somewhere to move up to.
Look at Kentucky. It had the same "culcha" problems you racists rant about. Except the people are white.
Posted on 7/28/19 at 11:28 am to TDcline
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BK
Traveling and made a stop at the one off I-10 in Vinton.
My God. You wouldn't believe it if I described it.
Posted on 7/28/19 at 11:29 am to Kimist
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Look at Kentucky. It had the same "culcha" problems you racists rant about. Except the people are white.
Except the homicide rate
Makes you wonder why it's lower in Appalachia than the inner city....
BTW: Gubment handouts kept the poor from moving to places where the economy was better. People used to relocate to escape poverty, now they stay where they are and live on the hand of the taxpayer.
This post was edited on 7/28/19 at 11:35 am
Posted on 7/28/19 at 11:52 am to TDcline
Well, I was born in a small town and I live in a small town. I’ll probably die in a small town. Most of my friends are small town. Heck, even my job is in a small town. I admit though, there’s little opportunity.
I was educated in a small town. I learned right from wrong in a small town.
Call me an idealist but I think small towns are great.
Nothing against the big towns though. I admire those that can live and prosper in the big towns.
It’s just smalltown life for me
I was educated in a small town. I learned right from wrong in a small town.
Call me an idealist but I think small towns are great.
Nothing against the big towns though. I admire those that can live and prosper in the big towns.
It’s just smalltown life for me
Posted on 7/28/19 at 4:41 pm to TDcline
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But you better not tell the parents sending their kids to these schools because they think Opelousas Catholic is a Harvard prep.
This may offend your Protestant sensibilities, but Catholic schools in LA by and large do a much better job of preparing students for college than public schools.
Posted on 7/28/19 at 4:47 pm to LongueCarabine
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This may offend your Protestant sensibilities, but Catholic schools in LA by and large do a much better job of preparing students for college than public schools.
Maybe CHS and a couple of the Nola schools. If a National Merit Scholar comes out of St Fred's in Monroe or St Mary's in Natchitoches it's quite by accident. To say nothing of the E.D. Whites and STMs of the world.
Posted on 7/28/19 at 5:03 pm to BlackAdam
quote:absolutely. there are nice small towns and cities all over the midwest. it's a lot different than the south in that regard.
You think Hesston, Kansas is any better?
Posted on 7/28/19 at 5:17 pm to Jim Rockford
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Maybe CHS and a couple of the Nola schools.........
I didn't realize we were discussing National Merit Scholars, I thought we were just talking about people who manage to do decently and graduate.
In my experience most of the people I knew (or knew of) who flunked out of college were public school grads. Most of the Catholic school grads I knew have done very well for themselves.
Posted on 7/28/19 at 5:23 pm to TDcline
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Missing anything?
The Five Fs of why people stay in LA:
Fishing (and hunting)
Friends
Family
Food
Football
And of those five, I definitely understand the argument for one of them. The rest just aren’t enough to justify staying, but that’s truly just my opinion and anyone who feels otherwise is also right because it’s entirely subjective.
Posted on 7/29/19 at 8:09 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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absolutely. there are nice small towns and cities all over the midwest. it's a lot different than the south in that regard.
dumb comment. There are nice small towns everywhere. There are shitty small towns everywhere. Corruption, lack of opportunity, and poverty are not exclusive to the south.
Posted on 7/29/19 at 8:11 am to BlackAdam
I mean most small towns look alike in many areas.
Posted on 7/29/19 at 8:17 am to TDcline
you could make this thread for pretty much every state
most small towns are dying
this isn't anything unique to LA
most small towns are dying
this isn't anything unique to LA
Posted on 7/29/19 at 8:21 am to NIH
Agreed. This is a problem all over.
If the small town lies outside of an hour commute to a metropolitan area, it tends to die on the vine unless there is some sort of economic engine to keep it going.
Farming and factory work are two big engines that drove many rural areas but that landscape has changed drastically.
Farming operations have changed from manual labor to machinery. Factory work has migrated south of the border.
Go look at Lake Providence. That place got decimated over a few generations.
What I’ve seen is a sad state of government assistance infiltrating these towns. In addition to the SNAP and housing programs, The rate of social security disability can be alarmingly high. It’s a complete scam too. With that comes high drug usage.
Educational opportunities are poor. People get trapped and the towns spiral down.
If the small town lies outside of an hour commute to a metropolitan area, it tends to die on the vine unless there is some sort of economic engine to keep it going.
Farming and factory work are two big engines that drove many rural areas but that landscape has changed drastically.
Farming operations have changed from manual labor to machinery. Factory work has migrated south of the border.
Go look at Lake Providence. That place got decimated over a few generations.
What I’ve seen is a sad state of government assistance infiltrating these towns. In addition to the SNAP and housing programs, The rate of social security disability can be alarmingly high. It’s a complete scam too. With that comes high drug usage.
Educational opportunities are poor. People get trapped and the towns spiral down.
This post was edited on 7/29/19 at 8:29 am
Posted on 7/29/19 at 8:24 am to TDcline
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TDcline
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The place he lives is so great that he wastes all of his time posting on a Louisiana message board.
GTFO!!!!!!
Posted on 7/29/19 at 8:28 am to BlackAdam
quote:there are a lot more nice towns and a lot less shitty towns in the Midwest, NE, and west coast than in the south per capita
There are nice small towns everywhere. There are shitty small towns everywhere.
Posted on 7/29/19 at 8:32 am to TDcline
This is what you were doing on Saturday night?
That’s awesome
That’s awesome
Posted on 7/29/19 at 8:33 am to TDcline
That describes almost every small town in America today.
Posted on 7/29/19 at 8:43 am to NPComb
quote:I almost feel like the OP was thinking of Abbeville when writing his description. He pretty much hit the nail on the head there.
Vermilion Parish is not that way. They have their share of hicks and coonasses but the culcha capita is lower there except for Abbeville.
Maurice, Broussard, and Youngsville go against the grain with the OP's descriptions of small towns though.
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