Cameron Parish, LA is a disgusting place.

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It's ethnic voting as much as it's racist voting. I don't think that Landrieu would do nearly so well there if she didn't have a French surname.

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Moral indignation at voting patterns is all well and good, but it gets very tiresome very quickly, especially when there's no context or real understanding of the area in question.

I'll now repeat this;

It's ethnic voting as much as it's racist voting. I don't think that Landrieu would do nearly so well there if she didn't have a French surname.

With some fun from the census... 35.2% of people here claimed either French or French Canadian ancestry. The only other large group is "American"... 17.7%. Only about 80% of people actually put down an ancestry; of those about 45% claimed French or French Canadian ancestry.

I can't find the percentage that's still Francophone (and it's a little late at night for it to be worth the bother) but it's definitely over 10%.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

NOT AS RACIST AS MOST OTHER SOUTHERN WHITES.

% vote, David Duke (runoff, 1991).

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NOT AS RACIST AS MOST OTHER SOUTHERN WHITES.

% vote, David Duke (runoff, 1991).

I must say, it's quite interesting that you say Landrieu having a French surname is why she did so much better than Obama in Louisiana (something I somewhat agree with) and then go on to use 1991 as further proof. What? A Klansman against a 3/4 Cajun man (who was the first Catholic Governor of Louisana in a long time)? Sorry, but Cajun Country voting for Edwards over Duke really doesn't prove anything.

Fine; here's the 1990 Senate election:



% David Duke (again). Note that the Democrat in this election was from Shreveport and had an obviously Scottish name (Bennett Johnston).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

That's better. But it's still a white versus white race.

More importantly it was a race between a fairly conservative white Democrat versus an openly and viciously racist Republican. Balking at voting for a black man is one thing, voting for the former head of the Klan is quite another.