[EDINVA]

and LSU is how many times bigger than Tulane? Also, I'd assume a higher % of LSU grads are from and stay in state. Do you know what percentage of the voters both schools' grads, collectively, represent?

[kms61]

I don't have the stats at hand, but LSU of course is much larger, and probably the majority of Tulane students come from out of state and leave the state after graduation.

But that's not really the point. The LSU-Tulane hostility goes back at least until the 1920's when there was an annual football game followed by a riot (a photograph from that era features two coeds assaulting each other with sugar cane stalks). At this point it's more of a cultural artifact. The schools don't even play each other every year any more. But the hostility carries over. There are elements of populism, public school-private school rivalry, New Orleans vs the rest of the state, and class warfare all rolled up into it.

If you don't live here none of this may make any sense. I've tried to explain it as best I can.