Politics Of Louisiana
Politics in Louisiana has always been a controversial yet interesting combination. Since statehood, Louisiana has been a traditionally conservative state full of middle-class whites and African Americans. According to a CNN poll, about 40 percent of Louisiana voters are still politically conservative.
Louisiana has been a marginally Democratic state for decades, because of New Orleans and the state's large black population. Marginal is a good description, because Democrats have won statewide elections over the years, but sometimes by narrow margins. Regardless, most of its statewide Democratic officeholders, and its white Democratic officeholders outside of New Orleans and Baton Rouge, have been quite conservative by national Democratic Party standards.
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