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In fucking* Louisiana. I love how that's nowhere near the headline. Hilarious.
Take the wins where you can get them, but it's worth noting the vacated seat was held by a Democrat. This isn't a flip. The district traditionally learns blue at the local/state level, as per the article.
Not trying to rain on anyone's parade, but the "oh my god those backwards Louisiana hicks actually voted for a Democrat?!" Narrative is needlessly divisive and kinda shitty. That district has been for years.
The only thing worse than vindictive, bigoted conservatives is vindictive, bigoted leftists who don't want to find ways to live alongside the stupid hicks.
At least they're stupid enough that they can be turned and manipulated to supporting better outcomes, but leftists holding a grudge do entire goddamn worldbuilding exercises around justifying hating everyone with a simple life and a simple mind.
(Go ahead and downvote me browser, while you do, think about what kind of biases you hold against people based on how you imagine their house and yard to look.)
in my experience, it's liberals, not leftists, doing that more often
In my experience there are a LOT of leftists who cling to the label without actually being more than a liberal with some angry outbursts.
I don't disagree. Class Rules Everything Around Me.
do you really want me to get my list of people leftists hate because "stupid hicks" is pretty low on the list compared to folk with the wrong skin color or disability or sexuality. of course point that out to a leftist and they'll deny it, but when you look at what they actually do instead of what they say, it's clear as daylight.
I think it's the huge margin for the win, and this:
For iberville and assumption, in the presidential elections, support between R and D has moved within bounds of like, 2%, for the last 3 presidential elections.
In that same time frame, the maximum support a republican candidate for the 60th house of representatives has been 18.8%. Not margin, TOTAL.
Don't get me wrong. It's not bad news. But the reality of this outcome in this district is "No material shift in voting patterns in area over the last 20 years".
That still makes the 67% Trump got in 2024 really questionable. But nobody in charge has seemed to bat a fucking eye.
Why would it?
This pattern has existed since before Trump in that district. Leans right at federal level, leans left at state level.
Assumption is slowly sliding more right at the federal level... but also sliding more right at the state level. At 38% of the vote Daigle had the best republican showing in 20 years.
This result isn't a directional divergence. That would maybe raise an eyebrow.
It’s a pretty purple district and, although Trump won big in this district, they tend to vote blue for the local stuff, and this Democrat replaced an incumbent democrat.