You might know Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, for ’60’s political boss-segregationist Leander Perez. or maybe for its role in launching Huey Long’s political career after the New Orleans city fathers blew a hole in the levee in order to save the Queen City from the 1927 flood. (The Kingfish would go on to terrorize out-of-state oil companies until he was assassinated in 1935. You can still see marks from the shots that missed in the marble walls…
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