We've got a right-of-Cheney Indian governor who converted to Catholicism and took his name from the Brady Bunch because Hinduism and “Piyush” wouldn't pass the GOP xenophobia test, and this is what goes on in our legislative chambers. And all this is almost universally agreed to be an improvement over much of the past. Any further questions about why, according to StateMaster: “The state leads the nation in homicides per capita, the per capita number of state and federal prisoners in jail, as well as relatively high levels of aggravated assaults and violent crimes. Health is also a major concern in Louisiana. The state came out dead last in the Health Index published by Morgan Quitno Press, with a high rate of child death, the highest rates of STD's like syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea and low health coverage for residents. These issues were only exacerbated by the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, where damaged levees flooded much of New Orleans, displaced approximately two million people and killed more than a thousand residents of Louisiana.”?
