Well, I grew up in Louisiana. So I think I should know a thing or two about it.

[Honeycombe8]

Huey Long? Crooked, but revered. Palmer? Never heard of him. Never heard the name mentioned. Never heard a discussion about him, much less revering him.

Louisiana is a little different from Alabama and Mississippi. And La. is divided into sections. The N.O. section is decidedly different from the others. I'm from the cajun area (the southwest).

A number of blacks in La. did not come from Africa. They came from Haiti or Jamaica, and many were of mixed race. They cooked a version of the cajun food (creole food...different from cajun). Cajuns were very poor, sometimes living next door to blacks. Some intermarried (creoles).

Everything is not like you read about in a book. Louisiana's history is a little different from the other states, too. Owned and settled by the French and then the Spanish, it did not have the anglo background of other states. It has parishes, not counties. And French law, not anglo law.

As you pointed out, it did not (at least in its entirety) join the Civil War, many in the state siding with the Yanks. Lots of slaves, and lots of freed blacks.

So it's a mixture, really. Which was sort of my experience growing up there. Racist attitudes, blacks had separate entrances, segregation laws, etc. But not outright hatred (yes, it's overt, as I've seen here in Texas and not that long ago). And not violence (as has happened in recent years in SE Texas). There were no riots there. No protests against integration. As I said, people had learned to get along.