You missed the entire point of our ntions founding. It DOESN'T matter if Louisiana and/or New Jersey are corrupt. There are fifty states and it used to be possible to move with your feet. Now because of the myopic thinking you display FedGov rules uber alles corruptly, there can be no more voting with your feet.
The “other side of our nations’s founding was “We the People...”. My point was that it would have been better that “We the People” dealt with state level corruption than the Fed Gov having done so, which I do not believe to be unduly tangential to the reference you make.