An Independent Southern U.S.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

@Human_Action

For me, a resident of Kentucky, this seems to border on caricature of the South as unchanged since the days of Bull Connor.

I posted this in the other thread. I suspect many of the examples have similar analogues in Kentucky.

@Really_Not_All_That_Bright

You keep saying that, but your beliefs about where an unfettered Louisiana would go on social issues is way out of line with the facts.

Louisiana passed (in 2004) a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage even though gay marriage was already illegal. Consensual homosexual activity is legal in Louisiana only because of Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down such laws as unconstitutional.

The Louisiana Senate passed a blanket ban on abortions in 2006, and the House nearly passed a similar bill in 2011 (the only reason it didn’t was the loss of Medicaid funding that would result).

David Duke received 39% of the gubernatorial vote in 1992. Let me say that again: your state nearly elected a Klansman governor 20 years ago. He had already served in the state House for two years at that point.

Most of your state is *still *under federal desegregation orders.

Louisiana public schools are allowed to teach “intelligent design”.

What on earth can possibly give you the idea that Louisiana is a socially moderate state?

I don’t think we’d see a return to the Jim Crow South. I do think there would be a noticeable contraction of civil liberties for racial and religious minorities. Are you familiar with the Murfeesboro mosque controversy? It was just over the border in Tennessee.