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Baraka I award you the award previously given to Roachboy for Vocabulary.
Seriously I'm not making fun of you... I had to read your statement 4 times to truely get what you were saying, and I had to look up "villein" in the dictionary.
As I see Louisiana it was not a plutocracy exactly, it was a corrupt political plantation. Many politicians, mainly Democrat but there were a few Republicans, became politicians to become wealthy. The corruption in Louisiana, especially New Orleans, was infamous long before the storm. By keeping the people in various parishes stagnant, they ensured their own survival and flurishment. By stagnation they ensured that those groups and families entrenched in the political arena would not compete against each other in anything more than farsicle terms of strawmen opponents. It was 100x more effective than Gerrymeandering because the people were held to their individual castes by the triple threat of social, political, and even religious forces (go to any church in Louisiana, there are white and there are black churches... they do not mix).
All of this was irrigation and fencing for the plantation which harvested the votes. The votes led to vast amounts of money through corruption, which was funneled into the families which got that person into power.
What happens after this we will have to wait and see. Because of the national spotlight on the city many people want to "bring the city back," however when you talk to the people who move most don't ever want to return. Not too long ago we had to send in the National Guard because their police forces could not stop what grew to a 4 murder a day average. The gates and the guards on the planations have been broken, and we'll see what happens.
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"Smite the rocks with the rod of knowledge, and fountains of unstinted wealth will gush forth." - Ashbel Smith as he laid the first cornerstone of the University of Texas
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