I'm impressed that the state of Tennessee gave so much thought to avoid regional bias. In Louisiana, historically speaking the north wielded disproportionate power. We still see it today. Outside of New Orleans the south has seen population growth but the north has been in a decline. So naturally when we lose a congressional seat it will be the coastal parishes where the population is growing who lose. Must be some unwritten law that Shreveport and Monroe cannot share a representative.

(02-16-2011 08:35 AM)AstroCajun Wrote:  I'm impressed that the state of Tennessee gave so much thought to avoid regional bias. In Louisiana, historically speaking the north wielded disproportionate power. We still see it today. Outside of New Orleans the south has seen population growth but the north has been in a decline. So naturally when we lose a congressional seat it will be the coastal parishes where the population is growing who lose. Must be some unwritten law that Shreveport and Monroe cannot share a representative.

Okay, I'll go ahead and bite.

ULL - University of Lower Louisiana

ULM - University of Louisiana - Middle

(02-16-2011 11:45 AM)FloridaJag Wrote:  Okay, I'll go ahead and bite.

Don't choke on that bite there.

(02-13-2011 02:36 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  ULL changes their name to the University of South Louisiana- USL.

What do you think?

I'm going to get one last lick in on this

You realize there is another school in Louisiana that's called Southern.

Southern - South (way too close for comfort)

Now I'm all for ULM to rebrand as North Louisiana if they want

Louisiana sure does have a lot of universities per capita-- off the top of my head
1-Cajuns, 2-Warhawks, 3-LSU, 4-LaTech, 5-Grambling, 6-Southern, 7-McNeese State, 8-Nicholls State, 9-Northwestern State, 10-SLU , 11-Tulane, 12-UNO, 13-Centenary, 14-Louisiana College (not sure of enrollment)

Tennessee off the top:
1-MT, 2-UT-obKNOXiousville, 3-Memphis State, 4-East Tennessee, 5- TN Tech, 6- Austin Peay, 7-UT-Chattanooga, 8-UT-Martin, 9-Vandy, 10-Lipscomb, 11-Belmont, 12-TSU (and an assortment of small Jucos and NAIA's)

It's actually worse -

(02-16-2011 01:39 PM)KAjunRaider Wrote:  Louisiana sure does have a lot of universities per capita-- off the top of my head
1-Cajuns, 2-Warhawks, 3-LSU, 4-LaTech, 5-Grambling, 6-Southern, 7-McNeese State, 8-Nicholls State, 9-Northwestern State, 10-SLU , 11-Tulane, 12-UNO, 13-Centenary, 14-Louisiana College (not sure of enrollment) 15 LSU-Shreveport, 16, LSU-Alexandria, 17 LSU-Eunice, 18 Loyola University (New Orleans), 19 Southern University - New Orleans, 20 Dillard University (New Orleans), 21 Xavier University (New Orleans).

To be fair, though, Tulane, Loyola, Xavier, Dillard, Centenary and Louisiana College are all private schools.

ULM could become Monroe State University and ULL could become Lafayette State University.

(02-16-2011 11:16 PM)chargeradio Wrote:  ULM could become Monroe State University and ULL could become Lafayette State University.

Uh..... no.

Neither one of us wants sh*t to do with any school in Louisiana with 'State' in its name.

Thanks for playing.

How about Louisiana and Monroe? Like Alabama and Auburn?

(02-16-2011 08:35 AM)AstroCajun Wrote:  I'm impressed that the state of Tennessee gave so much thought to avoid regional bias. In Louisiana, historically speaking the north wielded disproportionate power. We still see it today. Outside of New Orleans the south has seen population growth but the north has been in a decline. So naturally when we lose a congressional seat it will be the coastal parishes where the population is growing who lose. Must be some unwritten law that Shreveport and Monroe cannot share a representative.

MTPiKapp, interesting. I never knew the symbolism of the three stars in your state flag.

Kentucky has 6 recognized regions based on geology. Bowling Green is in what is known as the Pennyrile.

The one region that everyone has heard of is the Bluegrass, which is where half of Kentucky's population lives (Louisville, Lexington, Frankfort, and the suburbs of Cincinnati.)

Like Louisiana, the north has all of the political and financial power in Kentucky.

(02-17-2011 08:57 PM)Hilltopper2K Wrote:  

(02-16-2011 08:35 AM)AstroCajun Wrote:  I'm impressed that the state of Tennessee gave so much thought to avoid regional bias. In Louisiana, historically speaking the north wielded disproportionate power. We still see it today. Outside of New Orleans the south has seen population growth but the north has been in a decline. So naturally when we lose a congressional seat it will be the coastal parishes where the population is growing who lose. Must be some unwritten law that Shreveport and Monroe cannot share a representative.

MTPiKapp, interesting. I never knew the symbolism of the three stars in your state flag.

Kentucky has 6 recognized regions based on geology. Bowling Green is in what is known as the Pennyrile.

The one region that everyone has heard of is the Bluegrass, which is where half of Kentucky's population lives (Louisville, Lexington, Frankfort, and the suburbs of Cincinnati.)

Like Louisiana, the north has all of the political and financial power in Kentucky.

You got the wrong state (Louisiana) The South rules and will do so more and more!!!

(02-16-2011 11:16 PM)chargeradio Wrote:  ULM could become Monroe State University and ULL could become Lafayette State University.

Monroe State Mud Dogs!!! I like the sound of that. Their slogan can be " At Monroe State... You can do it!!!"

I'll let UL-Lafayette come up with their own. They don't want help.