“....the first nonwhite to hold post in Louisiana since Reconstruction.......”
I presume the reconstruction governor to whom they refer was P.B.S. Pinchback.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._B._S._Pinchback
(Like Obama, half "white" (his father)) As you can see, he looks a whole lot more "Euro-Caucasian" than Jindal. He was a Republican too, BTW.