I don't really think that is true anymore. I think that rapid
communication, particularly television communication, has changed the
voting patterns, well, the
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people because instantly, everywhere all over the country at the same
time, people are hearing the same things, seeing the same things,
evaluating the same things from a national viewpoint, projected from a
national viewpoint. There are so many particles that go into what makes
a campaign click and how a person is elected that it is impossible
really to pick out any one thing. In our area, in Louisiana, of course,
the growth factor, people in suburbia more or less have the same
problems that they have everywhere else, and they have almost the same
attitudes. We have been fortunate in New Orleans that we still have a
viable inner-city situation, and that hasn't been depleted. Of course,
the downtown business district is alive and well. Mostly, I think,
because it is the local shopping center to the French Quarter, which is
really a year-round residential community as well as a tourist
attraction. In so many cities, of course, you have all the urban
problems from the people paying taxes fleeing the inner city and the
people who need tax money spent on them overcrowding the inner city. The
urban problems are so much the same as they are in any other city in the
country, that it is hard to think of them as a southern problem.