Doesn't make me happy but why on earth would you want to see Louisiana?
You can skip to Louisiana below, for my views on that - but here are my top three, and my reasoning:
My list:
Louisiana, Maine, and Michigan!Michigan because some of the infrastructure looks almost exactly like my city...like houses and buildings seem to have been built at the same times. I swear, it looks like home in some places [Saginaw, Grand Rapids]. Look at Thunder Bay versus Saginaw:
Thunder Bay:
Saginaw:
I also think Michigan residents - being so close to Detroit - have a realistic outlook on sociopolitical things. On average, I mean. Individuals vary.
Michigan is also not very far from Ontario.
And because you live there, of course!
Maine because I'm intrigued by a 2022 state that has the demographics of North America in 1980.
Go to 36:40, and watch this Unsolved Mysteries episode, if you are interested:
^ That's exactly the type of community I wish I lived in [East Millinocket, Maine, Circa 1980].
Murders in my city are almost a monthly event [high Indigenous population]. As White people approach extinction globally [this will happen by 2150], I find it interesting that states with 90% White populations still exist. They generally comprise delusional idealists [like Stephen King] who live in a world where they have no idea what a realistic outlook of diversity is. I don't hate Black dudes or Indigenous people, but it's utterly absurd to think all problems in their community stems from "racism". So Maine is a state filled with far-left liberals who have no grasp of reality. So it's a contrast thing: while I'd love to live in a place that is safe - boring, even, in its safety - the people there are exactly the opposite of me politically. Yet those same people produce the type of place I would want to live.
Also, one thing about Maine is that it is part of the French Acadian culture - I speak French from being enrolled in French Immersion as a kid because Quebec influences Canadian politics heavily. Did you know that French has a small population of French speakers at home?
And lastly, to your question - I want to visit
Louisiana for this reason also. Around 10% of Louisiana's population speaks French! There is actually a Louisiana French language - Cajun French - which is a bit of an unrefined combination of both French and English, which is roughly what I speak today [I've lost a bit of French since I no longer speaking it in school]. This is exactly how I speak French:
I love Louisiana French:
It amazes me that there are groups of people who managed to hold onto a colonial language that has almost been completely displaced since then.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_FrenchLouisiana has parishes, as opposed to counties, which I find interesting. Below is a map of parishes where French is spoken the most, with darker cities speaking more French than the lighter ones:
Can you imagine French speakers passing down their language from parents to children for literally hundreds of years while the language is under attack, essentially? I find that fascinating.
I also think Louisiana Blacks and Whites both have a more realistic view of one another, since they actually live with one another.
People say Southern Whites are racist, but that's bullshit - EVERY PLACE WITH DIVERSITY GETS CALLED THAT. Thunder Bay is Canada's most racist city. But it doesn't have ANYTHING to do with the fact that Indigenous people are committing murders at record breaking rates - it's always the fault of White people.
I think that Louisiana White people would sort of empathize with what it's like to be called racist simply for behaving in response to non-White crime. And I think Louisiana Black people are more accustomed to living with Louisiana Whites, from an actual evolutionary position - unlike in Toronto, where no one there has had a history to deal with these differences.
I don't think any White people in Louisiana would buy into the politically correct narrative which so many White people in Northern states + Canada buy into. There are only something like two White Democrat Congressmen in Mississippi for example.
This proves to me that people - for as politically correct as they are on the surface - drop the PC beliefs with life experiences.
There are reasons to be Democrat - I just don't think the racial diversity left-wing stuff is realistic.
There is a real Black crime issue that leftist Whites tend not to address, and it drives me bananas.
So that's what my interest in Maine and Louisiana is - it is the tale of two people, one poisoned by PC stuff, and one not. Yet the PC people in Maine, by virtue of their demographic profile, have a safer community. Like a Norman Rockwell painting.
Louisiana is basically the USA's Quebec. And I admire the people there who have maintained their language. And I think the Black and White populations have sorted out their issues beyond still living in some ridiculous PC delusion.
Where I live, Black people are a new population. And because the only experience here is from people seeing Black people in movies, a child could be raped by a Black person, and the police would actually be pressured not to investigate. Such bullshit can ONLY happen in places that don't have experience with this diversity, and who are brainwashed by movies.
Look at what states are rejecting Critical Race Theory in schools versus those embracing it.
That can ONLY happen in populations that are naive about race. And I don't think Louisiana is - with both their Black and White populations "knowing the score", so to speak.
You know me - I hate political correctness. And I just don't see Louisiana being that way at all.
