re: Is it weird that I love Louisiana

Louisiana has soul. Most places I’ve been just don’t have it. It is weird. Go to any SEC away football game and pay attention to what’s happening. We have a certain spirit about us that just doesn’t match up anywhere else. Maybe my sample size isn’t big enough or scientific enough but we have IT and I’ll take our IT over anybody else’s.

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Louisiana has soul. Most places I’ve been just don’t have it. It is weird.

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Couldn’t agree more. You don’t realize it until you move to another state either. I tried explaining what’s so different about Louisiana to my friends when I lived in South Carolina but it’s hard to put it in words.

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Not sure you can classify Louisiana as having a culture of poverty. Culture of poverty exists within Baton Rouge and NOLA but it also exists within every major city in the US

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Are you serious??? It is statewide and only getting worse. Find a city where the demographics are 50/50 and you’ll find a city where the majority of 3rd graders can’t read or write. And it’s not close

I love the LA of about 40 years ago. You can have today's LA.

I tried living out of state after college, but missed "home". I moved back, not to my home town, but home state. The people, the food, hunting/fishing, are just better. Other states have nice things, but it's just not the same if you're from here. Vicinity to all my family and the ability to get fresh seafood and good boudin trumps the rest. I still like to visit the mountains and other places, but glad to come back to LA every time.

As I said earlier, I love Louisiana and in general the people are very nice. I've only lived in New Orleans and Shreveport. Sadly, La is finding out what happens when ghetto or trashy people reproduce more than good, normal people. I live in a neighborhood that is 75% black, have lived here for 10 years, the last one I lived in was about 50/50 starting out and I left when it was approximately 3/4 black.

Sad to say, have really close black friends, albeit the older folks, but the black population here has been causing major declines in La for a long time. You are starting to see it come to a close 2nd with white trashy people. We even looked at moving when I retired to W. Monroe or Ruston and with friends living there and some family, those cities are feeling the headache of it all also, and they are seeing crimes they use to not see much of.

The only people that call out the crime committed in black neighborhoods by black people are elderly black people. Everyone else just accepts it. I see 2 year olds bottle feeding infants b/c mom and dad are not in the picture, or on drugs, grandparents in their 80s going back to work to support grandkids and great grandkids, it's pathetic.

I've spent a career in ems, guess what. Go to a 50/50 hood and 99% of our calls, shootings, beat up, stabbings, etc are to the black houses. Good white people and good black people have nowhere to go in La b/c sadly, either the white trash or ghetto black people are not far behind them. Louisiana will not improve, and I hate it. Politicians should take some blame, but at some point, you have to fix your problems yourselves. Go pick up trash in my neighborhood and get mocked by a 14 y/o wanna be thug, it's fun. Only for the next day trash to be full on the streets again.

ETA: I use to "defend" the black population, or poor white population. I've given up on it years ago. I see it first hand, overall, they just don't care. It's not all gov't's fault, police fault, white man's fault, it's their own undoing. Those elderly people that truly lived in a racist south overall, have done well, been good citizens, their kids and grandkids, not so much. There are many good one's, but damn, the bad one's which use to be a small percentage, that percentage has gotten way too high.

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Litter Education Culture of poverty

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None of these are that big of an issue where I live. I lived here my whole life and got everything I needed to be a successful person and still set my roots in LA. Maybe I’m just an exception who knows.

I love it too my friend. I love fishing, seafood, food in general, and sports. This upcoming Saturday I will get up early and go catch some reds and specs our of the Rigolets. I'll clean fish and have em in the freezer by lunch. Head to BR and tailgate with some friends and watch LSU beat the Gators again. Get up Sunday, go to church with the family and maybe bring my boy to go play golf. If not we'll go find some bass in a local pond. Wouldn't move from Louisiana if somebody offered me 100k.