Word: cajun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Visitors to the state may feel they have stepped into a foreign country, a land of Mardi Gras, Cajun cooking and the Catahoula hound. The flags of six - countries have flown over this state, where the Napoleonic Code still prevails and French is often the first language in the southwestern Cajun country. Louisiana has been home to trumpeter Louis Armstrong, disgraced televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, demagogue Huey Long and author Walker Percy. The state, which has the nation's widest gap between rich and poor, is a quirky mix of Catholic and Protestant, oil and sugarcane, jazz and Zydeco...
...reverse discrimination. It is a clever ploy, and one whose attraction stretches far beyond the racist vote. A master at driving wedges through the electorate by exploiting race-linked issues, Duke is moving these once taboo topics from the back room to the public forum. As one wizened Cajun in Donaldsonville puts it, "He tell it like it is. He ain't scared...
...that he had conspired to rig state hospital approvals while out of office. Though he was acquitted, tales of extravagant gambling trips and debts paid off with cash-filled suitcases have ^ continued to dog him. But they also spark his campaign for redemption. As the well-scrubbed, silver-haired Cajun traipses across the state like a visiting potentate, he exhorts supporters, "Lache pas la patate! ((Don't drop the potato!)) I made my mistakes, and I benefited by them. I'm running to complete the job I started...
...Walter is a voracious assimilator of information," says Jim Kelly, a friend and senior editor. "He's the kind of person who can discourse with equal intelligence on Cajun music, the Philby spy ring and medical ethics. His journalistic mind is at work at least 18 hours a day." All that energy is now at the service of readers who look to our back of the book for information and understanding...
...Louisianans especially unenlightened? Has all that spicy Cajun food caused some kind of state-wide frontal lobotomy...