(Part 2) Best products from r/Louisiana
We found 2 comment on r/Louisiana discussing the most recommended products. We ran sentiment analysis on each of these comments to determine how redditors feel about different products. We found 21 products and ranked them based on the amount of positive reactions they received. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
The other answer is a mish-mash of right and wrong...
Casinos have always been frowned upon in Louisiana, because gambling bad in Christian consciousness. For most of the 20th century it was especially problematic because organized crime took control of casinos, so they were generally considered a public nuisance.
In the 80s, Native American tribes with reservations had lost pretty much any kind of federal aid under Reagan. Some were thriving though: the California tribes that operated bingo parlors (broke people like to gamble), which California sought to shut down (broke people getting broker is no good for the economy). Tribes argued that because they live on Federal Land, not within the states, they should be allowed to gamble since there's no Federal law against gambling. The Supreme Court decided in their favor in California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians (1987).
When this became known, tribes across the country started to explore having casinos and it grew pretty fast. And at the same time, Bernie Goldstein, whose family were tug boat operators in Missouri, started to lobby state governments with access to federal waterways such as Iowa and Mississippi to operate casinos on the rivers. The laws passed in 1990 along the same template: gambling is allowed off-land IF local communities approved. Iowa, Mississippi and Illinois were the first, and Goldstein's Isle of Capri casinos were the first on the water.
Buddy Roemer passed the gambling control act in Louisiana in 1991, which only allowed 15 casino licences statewide, so Casino Rouge opened in 1994, then Belle of Baton Rouge and Isle of Capri Lake Charles opened right after. The "corruption" stuff comes when allowing casino licences - BR originally had one, but owners lobbied to have two (funny enough, now they have the same owner). The case of Harrah's is usually mentioned because one developer had money to build, but another developer (Harrah's) got the licence for New Orleans but they were broke. They had a stalemate, but eventually Edwin Edwards figured out that these were tourism dollars leaving the state, and forced the two companies to merge, Harrah's eventually opened in 1999.
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