Louisiana has always had a huge white Catholic vote. David Duke’s legislative district was 75% Catholic.
As a result Huey Long used to tell this story in his early runs for statwide office:
“When I was a boy, I used to hitch up the mule at dawn and drive my Catholic grandparents to early Mass. About ten on Sunday morning I would hitch up the mule again to drive my Protestant grandparents to eleven o’clock church services.”
Later he was asked if that story was true.
“Hell,” Long replied, “We didn’t even have a mule!”
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