Louisiana is the second poorest state in the country. It gets more federal money than it pays in taxes. It has exceptionally high rates of some cancers (some rare), and the I-10 bridge in Westlake was just reported to be in danger of collapse in the near future - something to do with water contamination so corrosive it’s destroying the concrete (I think); and they can’t fix it because of said contamination.
Yet they remain a red state - ignorant to the end. It was really sad watching the interviews with some of those people - they are scary stupid. These aren’t uneducated hunters/trappers/shrimpers either; these people had white collar jobs. They said “cancer is in every state”, and yeah the oil/petrochemical industries may have polluted a little, but they brought jobs.
Interviewed an elderly couple who live on a bayou off of the Calcasieu, and nothing lives - no birds, frogs, fish, gators, even the cypress trees are dead.
And they think Trump is going to help them.
I spent many years in southern Louisiana, from Des Allemands to Cameron and all ports in between, and I can say I saw this coming. Some of the most ignorant “educated” people I’ve ever met. They sold their souls to the oil industry and got a toxic waste dump in return.
The “uneducated “ ones were smarter, but they resigned themselves to their fate because that’s the only life they’ve ever known. They saw what was happening, though.
Sportsman’s Paradise has become Sportsman’s Wasteland.
I no longer eat any seafood that I know comes from there.
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Yet they remain a red state - ignorant to the end. It was really sad watching the interviews with some of those people - they are scary stupid. These aren’t uneducated hunters/trappers/shrimpers either; these people had white collar jobs. They said “cancer is in every state”, and yeah the oil/petrochemical industries may have polluted a little, but they brought jobs.
Interviewed an elderly couple who live on a bayou off of the Calcasieu, and nothing lives - no birds, frogs, fish, gators, even the cypress trees are dead.
And they think Trump is going to help them.
I spent many years in southern Louisiana, from Des Allemands to Cameron and all ports in between, and I can say I saw this coming. Some of the most ignorant “educated” people I’ve ever met. They sold their souls to the oil industry and got a toxic waste dump in return.
The “uneducated “ ones were smarter, but they resigned themselves to their fate because that’s the only life they’ve ever known. They saw what was happening, though.
Sportsman’s Paradise has become Sportsman’s Wasteland.
I no longer eat any seafood that I know comes from there.
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