http://www.businessreport.com/news/2011/feb/21/good-bad-and-ugly-gnit1/
http://www.businessreport.com/news/2011/mar/08/how-baton-rouge-measures-edvl1/
A very different perspective..guess we’ll have to go with what we see ourselves and/or the research sources that we believe most.
Also if you like wikipedia (not sure I do) -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baton_Rouge_metropolitan_area