yes this is how metro areas work
Itâs the Jefferson Parish PD
In 2018, four Jefferson Parish sheriffâs deputies were accused of â and ultimately not charged with â inflicting âsignificant traumatic injuries to the neckâ of Keeven Robinson, 22, who was arrested and later died. The parents of Eric Parsas, a 16-year-old with autism who died last year after an encounter with law enforcement, filed a federal lawsuit in January against Sheriff Lopinto and seven deputies, claiming the deputies who tried to restrain their son had sat on him for more than nine minutes, leading to his death.
The A.C.L.U. of Louisiana has filed several lawsuits in the past year and a half against the Sheriffâs Office stemming from what it says are incidents of violent beatings and racial profiling.
The organization started filing the lawsuits in an effort to halt the officeâs âdisturbing patternâ of âdeep-rooted racial violenceâ against Black people, the organization said in a statement this year. From 2013 to 2020, almost three-quarters of the people killed by the police in Jefferson Parish were Black, the organization said, even though Black people make up less than a third of the parishâs population.
Plenty of liberal cities have similarly awful police departments. Maybe slightly less bad, but still⌠Iâm not sure that proves a ton about the electorate.
Also, being 55/45 doesnât tell the whole story. Is that 55% tax cut Republicans to 45% centrist establishment Dems? Well, thatâs the same as any suburban area in the Northeast, basically. Is that 55% MAGA lovers to 45% Bernie lovers? Well, thatâs a little different.
The percentage of vehemently and overtly racist people in Jefferson Parish is probably much higher than in a 55/45 county in the Northeast, so itâs TrumpierâŚ
But weâre way in the weeds with this. I think the main question is whether Louisiana goes blue more often than other Deep South states because of more suburban areas (which it may or may not even have, weâre not sure), or whether there is some other reason?
While that may be part of it, I think the more likely explanation actually traces back to the history of the area. The territory East of the Mississippi River was British, whereas we bought Louisiana from the French, and the Spanish also had some influence there historically. As a result, the culture is a bit different, and the breakdown of religions is a bit different. Specifically, Louisiana has way more Catholics than other states. Keep in mind that a majority of Protestants today are going to be Evangelical.
Louisiana
Protestant 53%
Catholic 22%
Unaffiliated 19%
Other 4%
Jewish 1%
Mississippi
Protestant 77%
Catholic 4%
Unaffiliated 14%
Other 2%
Alabama
78% Protestant
7% Catholic
12% Unaffiliated
2% Other
Catholics are going to skew way more towards Democrats than Protestants, thus the Louisiana electorate is quite a bit different.
Jefferson Parish is weird, it includes very white suburbs of New Orleans (with a mix of old money country club republicans and super trumpy white working class) but it stretches all the way down to the gulf and includes some extremely backwoods bayou areas. But the main thing is itâs basically all super trumpy
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where does Gregg Abbott go to get his apology?
wow seems like mandel is way more her speed than phoney baloney vance
heâs just SO BAD at pretending to be a deplorable. âtake the country back from the scumbagsâ is exactly what someone pretending to be a deplorable would sound like.
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lol at anyone in the MSM who ever took this guy seriously.
yeah Iâm gonna put some $ against vance, donât see how he pulls this off
all he had to was socialists and he wouldâve been fine there, even if the deplorables arenât saying that just socialism BAD is enough
You kinda missed your shot, Vance is tanking on PI.
itâs gone down half recently, but thereâs still meat on the bone
in before trump endorsement and it goes back up and lol me tho
in doesnât matter anyway but lol gop news in kentuckyâlooks like they forgot to get a candidate for a trump +45 district for the KY house
deadline was today
no state is this red
Lol, youâll have to pry their seats from their cold, dead eDem hands
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Good for her
Man the republican wave that appears to be coming in 2022 is going to be breathtaking. Iâm starting to think the dems might lose the NY governorship.
Hard to believe thereâs no one younger than 82 in this area of California who could run for the seat
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Weâre not doing poll tracking again, are we? Can we put all reporting on polls in a containment thread so I can avoid them, lol.
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