Interesting point about the most corrupt state being Louisiana and province, Quebec, having Arcadian heritages....
“Interesting point about the most corrupt state being Louisiana and province, Quebec, having Arcadian heritages....”
That’s Acadian heritage (in the case of Lousiana). It is an interesting comment by Steyn, but maybe exaggerated in the case of Louisiana, because the title of most corrupt state is disputed by Massachusetts. Where else have local FBI agents been infiltrated by organized crime? Where else do they elect a killer like Ted Kennedy repeatedly, and in full knowledge of his past?
What is sad is that the Acadians of Louisiana (Cajuns, as they are known), who are descended from French inhabitants ethnically cleaned from Nova Scotia by the British, were formerly known as sober, honest, hardworking people.
The Quebecers in older times were similarly independent, religious, and conservative. Somewhere in the 20th Century, they largely abandoned their religion, and turned to socialism and kookie nationalism instead.