[Tupelo]

RIP Mrs. Boggs.
I do find it interesting that Mrs Boggs, like so may other former members of Congress never go back “home”. That is because after all Washington, the seat of power becomes home and after they retire to that high paid lobbying job they never have to go back and see those hicks back in the sticks.

[nomifyle]

She had a lovely home on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. It was open a couple of times of year for tours.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

She's not unique in not returning.
The 10 counties surrounding DC are home to hundreds of former office holders who don't want to go home.

[robowombat]

I do find it interesting that Mrs Boggs, like so may other former members of Congress never go back “home”.

She actually continued to maintain as her residence of record a really nice house in the French Quarter for a number of years after leaving Congress. When she was about 88 she sold the house in NOLA as traveling was more than she could do and lived near her two children. This is a little different than most such as Sen. Bennett Johnson who has lived in his palazzo overlooking the Chesapeake Bay ever since leaving the Senate.

Unlike many female Congresscritters, who are horrible harridans Mrs. Boggs was a very nice person whose staff members were well treated in the traditional southern paternalistic fashion.