re: Why do people support LSU when Baton Rouge is such a nasty place?

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This is not a troll. Genuine curiosity.

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I'll answer assuming you're asking in good faith.

In general, people in south Louisiana grow up and never leave. It's extended family cookouts, building a house on family land, owning a family business, etc.

It's the total opposite of a highly transient place like Denver where nobody is actually from there and might only be there for 3-5 years before moving on to Austin or Nashville etc.

You kind of have to live here a while to fully get it.

The crime is bad in certain areas (especially north BR), but there are a lot of nice areas too. Highland Rd from campus all the way to Airline Hwy near Prairieville is a 12-mile strip with million dollar houses on both sides (Saban's house was one of them).

There are problems, but there are good people here trying to make it better.

ETA: campus has seen upgrades to certain areas lately.. It still needs a lot more love, but the Nicholson Gateway project came out very nice:

Your state voted B Clinton (rapist, pathological liar, friend of the island and young girls) in for Governor for 8 2 year terms, I think. Enough said.