I wonder what Jindal’s stance is on this incident where whites attacked blacks for having the temerity to sit under a tree designated for whites in a small town in Louisiana. Then then white hung nooses from a tree and the incident was dismissed as a harmless prank. No prosecutions when whites attacked blacks, but when a bunch of black students retaliated for racial taunting by one of the whites in a separate incident and the black students beat the white kid up, the DA charges them and they get sent to jail.

Blanco and the other useless white democrats did nothing for the black community in this place. This would be a nice area where Jindal can show he is a man of action and do something substantive.

the crux of louisiana politics is not coming of age of south asian (or indian) american politician – it revolves around permutations and combinations of white, and african american voters.

breaux = cajun, white, pork king, and very influential. one of the leading blue dog democrat, known for bipartisan deal maker in his senate days.

i guess making millions of dollars as a lobbyist, and louisiana residential (voter registration) requirements were too much to tempt him to contest.

you both are missing the dyanimcs of louisiana politics, and bobby jindal in particular.

traditionally, african americans are the strong core base of democrats. they have always been.

whites fall in two camps: catholic cajuns in south louisiana, and protestants in north louisiana.

for a democrat to win, they need some cajun, and protestant vote padded to their african american base.

for a republican to win, they need to hold strong with the white vote – both south cajun and north louisiana vote.

bobby jindal has very strong support with south louisiana white catholics, even in the last elections, because they connect to his religious faith, and tend to be slightly forgiving of color, as they themselves tend to be mixed too, sometimes. african americans are very leery of jindal, and some of it due to his policies as a health secretary, and some race baiting by him on radio talk shows.

in last election, blanco is a cajun with her husband one of the deans of UL, Lafayette. on TV debate in the last election, she talked about her son’s death, and that connected emotionally with lot of working class whites. this is inspite of ray nagin supporting jindal, nagin and blanco have old rivalry that goes to blanco’s brother (or is it landreiu’s brother) pitted against nagin in NO, blanco won the election. even then she won on the strength of african americans, and working class north louisiana – a strange combination. she was trailing in opinion polls but the tv debate turned it around.

north louisiana is quite leery of jindal, but in post-katrina world, i guess they are willing to give him a chance. the ad about his criticism of protestants is to energize the voters in Shreveport and above to rally behind a democrat.

will jindal victory be a big deal – i do not think so. he is probably not corrupt like a lot of south louisiana politicians, but very much part of the louisiana white republican establishment, that is led by current louisiana senators, foster and all, and is prone to race baiting.

You know… That makes you a pretty ignorant human being considering that at the very least, most of the positions argued by mainstream politicians (be it Jindal or Pelosi and all those in between) are based upon legitimate arguments. Trying to smear people like you do is the cause of the pathetic state of politics today.

OK, you win. Blanco out maneuvered him in his attempt to appeal to that segment. Now that’s sad…

if you’d actually followed along you’d know that Blanco and the LA dems were the ones who appealed to racists sensibilities to defeat Jindal in 03. Being made darker in commercials was done for a reason.

And now, guess who’s taking an article written by him on christianity and claiming that he hates protestants?

Jindal winning in the south would be huge.

And yes he does resemble Ray Romano.