re: Will Louisiana ever make a comeback as a state?

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Louisiana is one of the most naturally beautiful places on the planet. It has an advantage of great weather, proud, hard working people, amazing music, the best food and a joie de vis that doesn’t exist anywhere else. All that being said, it has huge issues that it refuses to accept nor deal with.

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I hope to god you’re being sarcastic

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Not at all. Which one of those points do you disagree with?

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The part where you said that Louisiana has natural beauty and hard working people.

Statistics would disagree with you.

Almost 19% of Louisiana’s population is on welfare. Out of the total state population of 4.6 million people, that’s 874,000 people who contribute absolutely nothing to the state economy. That’s way higher than the average welfare rate for the U.S. as a whole.

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And Louisiana has about as much “scenery” as Kansas or Iowa. It’s a swampy, flat, and humid shithole.

I don’t think you realize how big 874,000 people is. That’s like an entire metropolitan city where all of its residents are on government assistance.

I’m pretty good at math, 874,000 people are a lot, no doubt, but that doesn’t mean the entire state is composed of lazy folks. Could/should that be better, yes, but that’s a big brush to paint the whole state with. Texas has over 3.5 million on welfare, that would be a top 10 city in the US, but no complaints there, right?

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Mandeville and Covington are way better than the MS Coast

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I think it depends heavily on the context.

Working family with kids in "good" schools? Ok I can give you that.

But if I don't have young kids in the house, give me a nice raised beach house in long beach every fricking day over living in covington.

We’ve squandered the post Katrina and BP opportunities - NO

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And Louisiana has about as much “scenery” as Kansas or Iowa. It’s a swampy, flat, and humid shithole

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Sure looks like a flat swamp to me




Yes it’s got some ugly sights