Gov. Edwards Gets Good Reception in New Orleans from Louisiana Farm Group
By Tyler Bridges, The Acadiana Advocate, Lafayette
As a Democrat, Gov. John Bel Edwards should be about as popular among Louisiana’s farmers as a downpour during an afternoon harvest, voter data and poll numbers indicate. Quite simply, farmers are primarily rural whites, the demographic group that most fervently rejects Democrats and supports President Donald Trump, who won the rural vote nationally by 26 points in the 2016 presidential election.