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 Liberal Unfriendly Place: Baton Rouge, LA
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 Baton Rouge, LA is home of one of the most controversial Louisiana
politicians named Woody Jenkins, who happens to be a poster boy for the
radical Religious Right; to this day, he is still blaming New Orleans
Marc Morian for depriving him of a victory in the Louisiana Senate race
aganinst Mary Landrieu; perhaps he has got something against New Orleans
and its people; he still regards the notorious Iran-Contra figure Oliver
North a "HERO"-ugh!; although Baton Rouge is home of Louisiana State
University (a pocket of progressivism), it still retains a very
conservative character
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i certainly agree that baton rouge is not the most progressive city in the
u.s. to reside. on the other hand, compared to the rest of louisiana (with
the exception of new orleans), baton rouge is a hotbed of radicalism.
be gentle...
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Moving to Baton Rouge from the surrounding area of New Orleans was, to
say the least, a culture shock. It's mind-boggling that the mentality
of people can be so different in a small distance. Yes, we have Woody
Jenkins, the Amway poster-boy, and we have Jimmy Swaggert, one of
God's fornicating deciples... We, also, have what seems to be the
largest number of Conservative Democrats around. Most of the older
generations were registered Democrat because "that's what my ancestors
have been since the civil war." People in Baton Rouge seem reluctant to
welcome any kind of change. As long as the LSU Tigers football team is
winning, there's no reason to change anything. {LOL} That cracks me
up... Everyone in BR is an LSU fan if they are winning. If the team
is winning everything is alright.... These people are the worse case of
"fair-weather friend" syndrome I have ever seen. This area of the state
is definitely a Bible-belt area. People go to church and "learn" how
to "love" like God wants us to, but then they go home and hate anything
that's different from them. "Love thy neighbor... as long he is just
like you"... These people scare me. The only town where Jimmy Swaggert
can be caught, red-handed, with a hooker in New Orleans, and he still
manages to pull in a crowd at the Jimmy Swaggert Ministries on worship
night. It's almost worth it to live here just to laugh at the
population....
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Baton Rouge's private vs. public education situation is a dead give-away
of the position of the city in the right-left continuum. In the mid
1970's, when the federal courts finally saw fit to visit some justice upon
the city's segregated school system, private schooling began to boom. The
Catholic educational system, until that time on the wane or barely holding
its own, began boom years. The city's 70% white population began to flee
the public schools in droves, and the churches, always eager to serve,
built schools for them. The white population of the public schools is now
down to about 45%. The majority white electorate soundly defeats every tax
proposal made to improve public schools and hounds state legislators to
propose some sort of voucher system to support private education. The
State has found ways to funnel tax monies into private schools to pay for
services the State requires for state education board approval. Home to
Woody Jenkins, noted Amway salesman, Christian, and Republican and a source
of a good deal of support for Nazi, Klansman, and Republican David DuKe,
the city is a conservative paradise. There is a small and powerful liberal
underground, however, to write about this great Southern City.
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