It’s Louisiana (my home state before I joined the military). It serves as the baseline from which all corruption is judged. It makes Massachutsetts, Illinois, and even California look like amateurs. Its coefficient of corruption is almost as awful as congress and the media.
Old proff I had, a Bayou man himself, said it was the French influence.
“Corruption” is viewed differently down there I guess. He found us German/Scandinavian Midwesterners rather dull, in that we did what we said we would.