>I had friends when I lived in Denver from New Orleans and they were a couple of fun ladies, so I hadn't really thought about it. But when I actually visited there and started checking into it, I heard nothing but scary stuff about NO.
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>A environmental expert told me that he had just been to Louisiana because there were several factories on the river in Baton Rouge. They were dumping some serious chemicals into the water which flowed straight to NO.
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>Then there's the statistic about Louisiana having the 2nd most stupidest population next to Mississipi. Not a real lofty goal to shoot for.
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>Pf

The state of Louisiana spends more on cleaning up Mardi Gras then it does on the entire state education system.

And living about 3 miles north of Mississippi, it's true.

__Stephen