Blog Banter: Conservatives on Louisiana Politics - I recently asked a question on John Hawkins' blog, RightWingNews regarding an explanation for Louisiana's paradox of being a pretty successful state for Democrats electorally, but a pretty GOP friendly, conservative state ideologically. The responses to my question were interesting. Go here to read Hawkins' answer, and check out other replies on the discussion thread that evolved from Hawkins' posting. I have to thank Hawkins for picking my question out of the many he received to respond to on his main blog page.