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The Red State Paradox
Why do whites in the Dixie states tend to be freedom loving government minimalists? Well, that is a question that before it got clearer, got more and more confusing for me because I came to realize that that was part of a red state paradox. That is across the whole country. If you've got these problems, wouldn't you welcome help with them? And Louisiana turned out to be an exaggerated version of this red state Paradox. 40% of the state budget came from the federal government; they have all those troubling rates. The Cagens as a group of originally French Catholic, many of whom settled in Louisiana, they very conservative. They had a self-deprecating sense