As someone who spent a few years living in Louisiana, they’re not willfully shitholes. They elected a Democratic governor to fix the mess a Republican governor left behind when he decided to run for president after running the state into a nearly billion dollar defecit. Not to mention, they’re gerrymandered out of control. New Orleans and Baton Rouge, by far the two biggest cities and separated by an hour drive on the highway, are in the same House district.