[robowombat]

I have never been in a place where as many people have problems with behavior boundaries and where the culture supports a lack of acceptance of responsibility. It's called the ‘it's all right’ culture. Bad behaviors are accepted if one makes some superficial ‘I'm sorry’ response. Demands that individuals actually accept responsibility fir bad actions produces consternation and angry responses that ‘you are being mean’. This area culturally displays the effects of over two centuries of failed or maladaptive paternalistic schemes.

Let me describe in practical terms what this means. If one lives in SE La one pays about $1000 more a year in auto insurance. Why? Even after cracking down on the ‘no tags on cars’ phenomenon a large number of drivers are uninsured. There also is an excess of personal injury lawsuits especially in Orleans Parish generated by the excess number of personal injury lawyers. These people listen to police scanners and have ways of getting information from the PD on who was involved in any accident. They then convince illiterates that they can get them a big court settlement and launch nuisance suits for minor accidents. There is also a very high incidence of drunk or drugged driving. A parish sheriff's deputy estimated that 20% of drivers were impaired at any time of the day. The TP today continues to cover the case of a River Parishes man who has racked up 4 DUI’s in 6 months. This is by no means an unusual event.

Other practical effects I have personally had to deal with include a contractor leaving in the middle of a job because his estranged meth
addicted wife had snatched his daughter and wanted cash in exchange
for returning her.

You are correct this is a heavily red state. That is because the very large underclass both black and white are so dysfunctional and disorganized that the donkey party and the poverty pimping ‘civil rights’ establishment can't get the dependent lass to turn out in sufficient numbers. So while the state is 40.+ per cent black the donkey party leadership is mostly white and has ties to local business interests and what organized labor there is here and has little interest in stirring up the underclass.

There are some indications change is at work in the political culture. Katrina population loss in NOLA and a relentless US Attorney have sent many prominent politicians to prison and more are going and the black political mafia in NOLA has been broken.

The problem is the persistence of the culture of low or no expectations and its concomitant pathology of familial dysfunction and disorganization. This is a really interesting area but much of the population is locked into a culture that sees failure as the norm.

[skinkinthegrass]

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