We're now on Day #18 of my daily US states threads in honor of the 250th anniversary of the country.Louisiana joined as the 18th state on 4/20/1814. It's named for King Louis XIV of France, as it was originally a French colony and much, MUCH bigger. Its capital is Baton Rouge, and its largest city is New Orleans. It has a population of 4.6 Million, and is 52.3k square miles in size. It's the only state with parishes instead of counties, reflecting its strong French/Cajun culture. Louisiana was the origin of the Mound Builders culture in pre-colonial America, as well as Poverty Point, possibly the first tribal culture in North America. The Troyville Earthworks was once the 2nd largest in North America (till it was blown up in 1931). The Spanish led by Narvaez first explored it in 1528, though it wouldn't be properly settled until 1682. The first settlement in modern Louisiana borders was La Balize. In the aftermath of the French and Indian War in 1765, the Acadians were expelled from Canada by the British and made their way to Louisiana, becoming the Cajuns we have today. The Louisiana Purchase of 1812 brought the state into American hands as a slave state. Louisiana joined the Confederacy during the Civil War. Race relations following were difficult, and the state remained poor. Populist Governor Long was assassinated in 1932. These issues would be somewhat resolved after the Civil Rights Movement.Louisiana is very swampy, marshy, and humid. Lying by the Gulf Coast, it frequently experiences hurricanes. The state has long been impoverished and has both the highest homicide rate as well as the least healthy state. What do you think of The Pelican State?
>>18598884Swamp shithole with six months of boiling heat and humidity every year. Not a serious state.
WW2 Museum is nice. So is NOMA
New Orleans is 40% black, it's the blackest city in the United States proportionately.
>>18600577It was black before it was part of the US to be fair
Huey Long has always been such a fascinating figure to me because his charismatic image is so uniquely American even though his leftist politics that were deemed too radical even for the time obviously make him stand out
Finally a cool state. I highly recommend visiting that swampy shithole if you haven’t yet. It can be pretty fun
>>18600605I can't stand humidity, I think I'm good
>>18600577It worked back in the segregation days. The cities downfall was letting groids into the nice touristy parts of town.
>>18600610Let's be honest anon, even in a best-case scenario Louisiana is just going to be a worse version of Florida
>>18600584Huey Long is uniquely Louisiana, a blend of redneck populist and Latin American leftist caudillo, reflecting the bifurcated culture of the state north and south. I’ll reply to comments on the Kingfish but want to highlight the Long dynasty, which established what amounted to a two party system in Louisiana, Long and anti-Long, for decades while the rest of the South was mono-Democrat. His older brother Earl served two terms as governor and was even crazier than Huey. The film Blaze depicts his downfall when he ran off with a stripper and was locked up in a mental hospital, and is fairly accurate except that Earl is played by handsome Paul Newman when someone like John Goodman would have been more appropriate. Huey’s son Russell served in the Senate for decades and moderated his father’s wild economic populism into more of a southern Democratic liberalism, a Carter/Clinton strain that’s now extinct. Louisiana politics has always been crazy with flamboyant corruption and colorful characters. Edwin Edwards served four terms as governor, coming out of retirement to defeat David Duke—“Vote for the crook, not the Klansman!”—finally doing some prison time when the Feds caught up with him, marrying a beauty queen half a century younger than him and fathering a kid with her, then finally expiring a few years ago.
>>18600577>New Orleans is 40% black, it's the blackest city in the United States proportionately.I don’t recall the exact number but Detroit has a much higher black percentage.
>>18598884What if P.G.T Beauregard defending New Orleans
>>18600703Wouldn’t have helped. The Secesh stripped New Orleans of troops for the Shiloh campaign and counted on the river forts and a couple of giga ironclads to hold the line. The ironclads were never finished and once Farragut got his ships past the forts, the South’s largest city surrendered without a fight. Louisiana had some cool ACW battles. Baton Rouge saw a bloody but inconclusive battle where the Union commander was killed. Port Hudson was as crucial as Vicksburg in 1863 and the siege there lasted even longer. The 1864 Red River campaign should have been an easy mop up job for the Federals but instead they got clowned by inferior forces and nearly lost their entire fleet. There were a lot of other actions in the rivers and bayous west of New Orleans.
>>18600848>1864 Red River campaignProves that Confederacy can reclaim jewels city of Dixieland.
>On August 5, 1862, Union forces led by Brig. Gen Thomas Williams resisted an assault by Confederates under Brig. Gen John Breckinridge in an attempt to retake the Louisiana state capital. The attack was meant to be a joint effort of Confederate warships and ground troops, but the naval part went awry when the ironclad CSS Arkansas's engines failed four miles from the city. Without his naval support, Breckinridge's attack was futile. The Confederates withdrew after several hours of street fighting in Baton Rouge.>General Williams was among the casualties of the battle, shot through the chest during the fighting. A few days later, a ship transporting his body collided with the sloop USS Oneida and sank in the Mississippi River. Williams was rumored to have been fragged by his soldiers for being a hated martinet, one source claiming they held him in front of a cannon and fired it. Most accounts of the battle universally agree that he was shot by a Minie ball during the height of the battle, but the loss of his body afterwards helped fuel conspiracy theories.
>The controversial 1992 Louisiana gubernatorial election saw incumbent Democrat Edwin Edwards pitted against white supremacist leader David Duke in a campaign that even saw President Bush give his endorsement to Edwards, a notoriously corrupt womanizer. Campaign ads for Edwards went "Vote for the crook, it's important!" He famously quipped "Mr. Duke and I have one thing in common--we're both wizards beneath the sheets."[3]
>>18600911>>[3]Wikipedia run by blackrock goy (banker supremacy)
Louisiana is the source for numerous strains of American music. Louis Moreau Gottschalk was one of our first noted composers and was lauded as “America’s Chopin” both as a composer and piano performer, introducing Afro-Caribbean rhythms to a wider audience. Jazz of course is associated with New Orleans and many of the pioneers were mixed race Creoles like Ferdinand LaMothe, aka Jelly Roll Morton, who bridged the worlds of French concert halls and brass bands with black music. Cajun, zydeco, blues and country have deep Louisiana roots and the state still spawns funk, hip hop, punk and metal. A lot of early rock and roll came out of Cosimo Matassa’s New Orleans studio. Shreveport’s Louisiana Hayride hosted early country music too wild for Nashville as well as rockabilly acts. Powerful radio stations in New Orleans spread American R & B to the Caribbean and country across the South and Midwest, and today, a drive across Acadiana with the radio on will bleed from one local station to another blasting Cajun music live from some dance hall or studio.
>>18598884Hilariously corrupt shithole
>>18600848>>18600903Italian and Filipino would help CSA defensive of New Orleans
>>18600577i was impressed by the blacks in new orleans, they were more chill than in other cities
>>18601832They have really deep roots and culture there unlike Great Migration blacks in northern cities. Of course there’s an insanely high murder rate but the food, music and quirky folkways somewhat make up for it. Mardi Gras Indians are a crazy New Orleans thing. Black men spend all year hand sewing elaborate suits and headdresses that look more like old time Vegas showgirls than Native American garb, then they parade around on Mardi Gras and certain other occasions, getting into ritualized beefs with rival tribes that back in the day led to real violence but now just involve chants, dancing and getting shitfaced drunk.
>>18601832southern blacks tend to be more chill in general
>>18602226Nah chicago more chillhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzyDMSt_ywo
>>18602756lol no
