Is Louisiana Racist and Homophobic? Loving Black Drag Queens

Rod from the Dallas Morning News and also the famous Crunchy Con has the most interesting posts after he comes back home to Louisiana.

I was listening to the Supreme Court case oral arguments as to a part of the Civil rights acts. The Lawyer just stated as a matter of fact Louisiana still had racist politics and of course black folks would have a hard time getting elected. Never mind the fact that East Baton Parish has a African Mayor/Parish President and his votes came from the most conservative of white areas. He just got re-elected.

Small Southern towns are different and life is a lot more complex than people on the outside realize. Now the issue is of gays and tolerance. Rod's thoughts and experience has often mirrored my own observations

See Ginger Snap and Southern culture

I note the comments have taken a particular usual turn in which ROd has responded

Oh good grief. This post was only to raise a point about the complexity of social relations and taboos in Southern culture. If it troubles you to think that the reality of the lives people actually live there is rather more complex than a simplistic oppression narrative you favor, then I can't help you.
Whatever you do, don't read or watch the film version of "Once Upon a Time ... When We Were Colored," Clifton Taulbert's memoir of growing up in the segregated South as a black man. Life was not all an unrelenting hell for Taulbert, in his telling. If you're the kind of ideological simpleton who cannot grasp the idea that life is rarely black and white (so to speak), and that human society is full of mystery and contradiction, and that it is possible not only to survive under oppressive conditions, but in some ways to flourish, then you'll not like Taulbert's book.
Funny how I brought up a conservative churchgoing white friend in my Southern hometown taking up for a black drag queen because the black drag queen is a nice guy who had done a lot for charity, and some of you take that as an opportunity to trash the South as unregenerately evil. Says more about you than it does about the South. I suspect Ginger Snap would find more tolerance in this small Southern town than a fundamentalist Baptist preacher (of which there are exactly none in my hometown) would find living in the Castro, among the militantly correct.