A. J. Liebling - The Earl of Louisiana (1961)

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Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.

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A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

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Louisiana politics is of an intensity and complexity that are matched, in my experience, only in the republic of Lebanon.

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