Quotes About Louisiana

Louisiana wants a leader that will take their values to D.C. and will fight for them without wavering.

I committed to the people of Louisiana that my administration would look like the state as a whole.

We know that behind every budget number are real Louisiana citizens.

The side of town, the side of Louisiana that I grew up on, there's a lot of poverty.

It's just crazy how the Louisiana court system works.

to pursue the gold deposits that were presumed to exist in the great North American territory of Louisiana. There was no evidence of the gold, but this, as ever in such episodes, was no time for doubters or doubting

Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.

Louisiana has the best food on the planet if you don't really ask too much about what you're eating.

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

Complicating matters, American spies, with the aid of Canary Islanders, were expected to enter Texas and instigate revolts. Canary Islanders had the right to obtain a license to enter Texas as Spanish subjects seeking to relocate to New Spain. Twenty years earlier, when Louisiana belonged to Spain, Canary Islanders were brought in to populate the region. Over 2,000 of them settled in Louisiana. Spanish officials now feared that these settlers' loyalties lay with the United States.

In February 1873, the US Supreme Court heard the appeal of a group of cases from Louisiana consolidated as the Slaughter-House Cases (1873). The Court's ruling reversed the liberal direction that the nation was moving in, that is, toward equalizing the political rights of all citizens. The justices ruled that state legislatures had the power to determine what social practices in everyday life constituted discriminatory actions and violated a person's constitutional rights.

After the buffet dinner of seafood gumbo, snow crab claws, oysters Bienville, crawfish étouffée, and creole jambalaya

The Louisiana Territory, as he envisioned it, would encourage agriculture and forestall the growth of manufacturing and urban poverty

The cost had been met by the sale of Louisiana, recently wrested from Spain, to the United States.

Beanfest also holds the Great Arkansas Championship Outhouse Race in which teams from Arkansas and states as far as Louisiana and Missouri push outhouses built on wheels in a bid for the coveted gold toilet seat trophy.

In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage.

Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.