re: Why Louisiana Stays Poor

I'm glad you think that.

In fact, I wouldn't mind it getting so unpopular in Oklahoma that land prices drop. I'm wanting a few hundred more acres but not at $4k/acre for land that doesn't even have water or power.

Not this bullshite video again.

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Combine that with the fact that Louisiana has a history of electing the most corrupt governors imaginable,

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It's boiled into the culture at the local level. If you talk to any of my dad's old friends and relatives, their 3 topics of conversation are:

1. Bitching about refs blowing a football game
2. Bitching about politics
3. Bragging about who they know down at city hall or the courthouse who can get their tickets thrown out

2 and 3 are closely linked.

And of course, they only vote for colorful characters who are related to someone they know, or to previous office holders.

Take yer boy John Bel Edwards - his family has passed the Tangipahoa Sheriff's office down as a family inheritance for 4 or 5 generations. And I think they've had a few police chiefs & state reps in there too.

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Louisiana still has a higher per capita gdp and household income than Alabama, despite their recent gains and our recent losses.

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That’s not a good thing. That just means the corrupt politicians in Louisiana are staying rich while the decent people who would actually contribute to the state are leaving in droves

Id say the truth in one sentence but ill get perma banned.

Most people don’t want to work

You have this much time to write this diatribe instead of telling us?

Tell the idiots. The government needs more money for programs for this state to prosper.

Fat, poor and stupid. Most Louisiana residents are all three of those.