Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana

[minionofmidas]

That would seem to be a very good explanation.
What are the 60's results like.
(Don't bother, I'll check myself.)

[minionofmidas]

1960
Unpledged 65
Kennedy (who won the state) 21
Nixon 14

1964
Goldwater (who narrowly won the state) 86
Johnson 14

1968
Wallace 74
Humphrey 13
Nixon 11

1972
Nixon 83
McGovern 13

and even 1976
Ford 69
Carter (who narrowly won the state) 30

Only in 1980 did Plaquemines reenter the mainstream:
Reagan 55
Carter 43

[minionofmidas]

64 and 68 aren't really that odd - except in that there are no similar results in *Southern* Louisiana. 60, 72, and 76 are records.
The place is pretty isolated geographically.
And here's a little plug-in for the "Best Dem and Rep results" thread, WHICH NOW INCLUDES LOUISIANA DATA!

[minionofmidas]

There's a street in Frankfurt called Friedensstraße, Peace Street.
It was originally named, in the 1870's, for the Peace of Frankfurt, the peace treaty that ended the 1870/1 war between Prussia and France that lead to the formation of the German Reich.
Since 1945, the street is officially named for world peace in general.