Reply #5: To bluedonkey

[Phil214]

Blue, I understand how you feel. Even so, thanks to a little nickel-and-dime snooping, I found several precincts in Baton Rouge that you'd feel comfortable in (or so I would think).* Apparently Precinct Set 1 (precincts starting with 1) and parts of Precinct Set 3 (likewise starting with 3), seem to be reasonably tolerant. The problem is that I don't have a precinct map of East BR Parish, so you'll have to get one from the Registrar of Voters or LSUs Political Science department. I know some moderate-to-liberal areas are there, I just can't locate them on the map.

*From the website of the Louisiana Secretary of State, Elections Division (now THAT IS a damn good use of our tax dollars -- for once!)

P.S. That's how I "discovered" a non-neoconservative (if not actually Liberal) district in that Freeperville known as Shreveport - the Highland Neighborhood (around Centenary College) if you are curious. Sadly, NO, BR, S'port, and a tiny pocket in Lafayette are the only places in the state that I'm aware of that qualify as Liberal safe zones. If you are North La but far from Shreveport (east of Monroe), there is one in Jackson, Miss that might fill the bill -- the Fondren/Belhaven Neighborhood (near Millsaps and Belhaven Colleges)