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BUCHANAN A HUEY LONG FOR THE '90S? Your comparison could not be more misleading. Louisiana Governor and U.S. Senator Huey Long dedicated his life to helping people who could not help themselves. He worked hard to shrink the gap between rich and poor in Louisiana. Buchanan's approach is just the opposite, and his meanspirited ideas can only bring about a more divided nation, with the rich at one end and the forgotten poor at the other. America, down here in Louisiana, we knew Huey Long. Huey Long was a friend of ours. Pat Buchanan is no Huey Long. MATTHEW...
Republicans could still brag about the re-election of Mississippi's first-term G.O.P. Governor Kirk Fordice. And this week's gubernatorial election in Louisiana could well go to Republican Mike Foster, consolidating the G.O.P. march across the South. But what last week's voting hints at--the return of a detectable pulse among the Democrats--the Election Monitor picks up loud and clear. In nearly every region of the country, Clinton is favored over Dole. What's more surprising, voters prefer Democrats to Republicans as their choice for Congress, 45% to 41%, a reversal of the standings...
...Bowman is not your run-of-the-mill broncobuster. But he is the winner of this year's All-Around Champion Cowboy title at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Site of the only all-inmate rodeo in the nation, Angola is home to what the event's organizers tout as a "gang of crazy convict cowboys." Among them: all-around runner-up Johnny Brooks, right, who owes his title to skillful bull riding and a botched grocery-store robbery; and Terry Hawkins, a former butcher-shop employee who killed his supervisor with a hammer and went...
...their Oct. 30 referendum, half of Quebeckers--and a solid 60% of French speakers--said they want out of their partnership in a culturally diverse Canada. Why? For the answer, Americans might look no farther than Louisiana...
...Cajun" is a corruption of "Acadian," a region of Nova Scotia that was home to many French Canadians until they were expelled by the British in the 1750s and '60s. Many emigrated to Louisiana, then a French possession, where their language and culture withered, evolving into a kind of folk curiosity. Quebeckers do not want to go the way of the Cajun. They do not want to end up as some colorful ethnic subculture known for its music or cooking or the odd linguistic twist. Quebeckers are driven by a terror of being crushed by an English-speaking continent...