Word: bayous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends: The common people, including labor unions, Gee-geets, from the bayous, cajans from the prairie parishes, hill billies from the northern tier...
Louisiana. After a bitter, vituperative, disorderly campaign Governor Huey P. Long, 36-year-old political wildcat, was nominated for the Senate over veteran Democratic Senator Joseph Eugene Ransdell by a 35,000 majority. Senator Ransdell's white goatee quivered with amazemen when "plain people" from "back up the bayous" voted him out of office for the first time in 46 years. Rarely in press or forum had a candidate been as roundly abused as Governor Long. He was called a "disqualified, discredited, inexperienced, erratic, boastful young braggart." Voters were warned that, if nominated and elected, he would "degrade...