Originally Posted by: tehplatypusthe other parts were an education system that didn't live up to its end of the bargain and produced mostly functionless people and a welfare system that created spoiled brats without the aesthetic of being rich...

All products of political corruption.

The Democratic Party in Louisiana DEPENDS on that welfare dependent, uneducated [mostly black] underclass to keep the Republicans and third parties out so they have no incentive to fix the schools or move people off of welfare.