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Texas. It has every shit policy and politician that Louisiana does, but without expanded medicaid and with toll roads every five feet while every car on the road is trying to kill you.
Louisiana sucks, but at least it's chill.
I've somewhat recently been to some fairly small cities in both of those states and while I'll agree that Texas had some of the worst drivers I've ever seen, the areas I went to didn't look pitifully run down unlike Louisiana. Of course much of this is just anecdotal since I only went to a few locations in both states, but every single Louisiana city I saw felt much more morbid and sullen to me than any city I saw in Texas.
As far as policies go, I'll agree that I don't think they're making great policy choices in Texas but I also think they get more headlines than Louisiana which (from my very limited experience) appears to just quietly sink further into poverty.
the toll roads are to track you. they couldn't care less about funding road maintenance.
Does Texas get a internationally recognized "sacifice zone" where it is simply accepted that those people will die for profit?
Texas is bad, but Louisiana is crazy amounts of corruptness with cancer laden areas are simply "well thats what happens".
I don't know if its internationally recognized, but Port Arthur. It's the most depressing town I have ever passed through. The skyline is nothing but refineries and every house is rotting. I drive between Baton Rouge and New Orleans regularly and that's my normal. Port Arthur is a whole other level of poverty and pollution.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/sentenced-to-death-what-its-like-living-in-a-cancer-plagued-oil-town/