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re: What was the biggest mistake of each of Louisiana's 5 biggest cities?
Posted on 1/5/26 at 1:58 pm to ned nederlander
Posted on 1/5/26 at 1:58 pm to ned nederlander
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic but imagine how much money could have been put to better use, and how much better the public system would be now if whitey had just accepted integration and moved forward with it? The societal costs have been unbearable.
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Posted on 1/5/26 at 2:21 pm to barry
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The opposite, should have tripled down. Granted it’s not anything they could have done in the last 20-30 years but Laffy could have been what Houston was but LA govt sucks
More like 50 years ago but I doubt it given its location. Houston has a huge port for petrochemical operations, is close enough to the rigs in the GOA, and it's a shorter drive to the Permian and the shale regions of Texas and Oklahoma. They can consolidate corporate, downstream, midstream, and upstream in one centralized location.
Tulsa, OKC, Fort Worth, Shreveport, Lafayette, and New Orleans all had potential but lost out to Houston to due its location and geography.
This post was edited on 1/5/26 at 2:23 pm
Posted on 1/5/26 at 2:29 pm to stout
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Nope. Letting old money stagnate growth, while Laffyette took it all in in the 70s and 80s. Some of those oil companies that made Lafayette the home of 1000 millionaires in the 80s could be here instead, since it would have been strategically better and closer to the refineries. Instead, the old money on Lakeshore Drive during that time shut it down out of fear of losing their grip on the parish.
this especially with the downtown area.
I mean LC does well for itself but the demographics and the constant hurricanes hurt.
I do think what you are talking about has pretty much died though.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 2:33 pm to Chastains
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New Orleans:
Historically, several old guard wealthy families have run the city and have openly discouraged outside businesses from relocating to there so they don't have to have any competitors. Too much reliance on gambling as a last ditch effort to try to save the city.
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Lake Charles:
See New Orleans.
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Baton Rouge:
Very middle class city with no old guard rich families to block outside investments from coming in; welcomed new businesses and has therefore been the source of the bulk of the state's new jobs since the 1970s...big problem is that the lack of upper class people means most of the new businesses are just many smaller type businesses and really needs more big business coming in.
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Lafayette:
See Baton Rouge (except Lafayette actually did have a number rich people briefly during the oil boom...boom didn't last long enough to invest it though)
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Shreveport:
Gave up on being the center of country music.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 2:38 pm to chalmetteowl
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Yeah and now whites are flighting to the Northshore. Would they have done so without the Causeway?
They might have flighted even more to Houston or Dallas without the Causeway.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 2:49 pm to UtahCajun
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Laffayette = never could be a major port city
The port of Iberia has access to both the Gulf and the Mississippi River. While it’s currently a shallow water port, it could’ve been dredged to become a deep water port had any politician had the foresight.
Add the above to the no brainers that was ignored by LA’s brilliant politicians to their failure to develop Hwy 90 into a continuation of I-49.
Lafayette was severely F’d by failing short of the required population to receive federal funds for a loop. My recollection is that some kind of backroom deal was made to grant LC the loop instead of Lafayette.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 2:50 pm to Chastains
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New Orleans:
Ran off every major corp with their politics
Government Housing
Surrounding parishes, Mainly Plaquemines, did nothing to update the infrastructure(docks, railways, roads) to adjust to oil or trade industry.
White flight
Posted on 1/5/26 at 2:52 pm to BraveCajun
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The port of Iberia has access to both the Gulf and the Mississippi River. While it’s currently a shallow water port, it could’ve been dredged to become a deep water port had any politician had the foresight
Intracoastal canal =/= major port
Posted on 1/5/26 at 2:58 pm to Chastains
Nola...calling Delta's bluff re moving central hub to DFW..massive loss of jobs.
Not approving gambling allowed Vegas to thrive.
Not approving gambling allowed Vegas to thrive.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 3:53 pm to Chastains
No loop and the roads in Lafayette
Posted on 1/5/26 at 5:07 pm to ThatTahoeOverThere
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Surrounding parishes, Mainly Plaquemines, did nothing to update the infrastructure(docks, railways, roads) to adjust to oil or trade industry.
Most of the people in Plaquemines still live off of gravel roads
Posted on 1/5/26 at 5:39 pm to Cell of Awareness
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Atlanta grew from 496,973 to 510,823 by 2023.
And that was after the population bottomed out at 394K in 1990.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 6:14 pm to UtahCajun
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Intracoastal canal =/= major port
Hence the infrastructure funding caveat in my previous post.
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