Louisiana

Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans.

Some Louisiana urban environments have a multicultural, multilingual heritage, being so strongly influenced by an admixture of 18th century French, Spanish and African cultures that they have been considered somewhat exceptional in the U.S. Before the American influx and statehood at the beginning of the 19th century, the territory of current Louisiana State had been a Spanish and French colony. In addition, the pattern of development included importing numerous Africans in the 18th century, with many from the same region of West Africa, thus concentrating their culture.

Louisiana in "Must and Shall"
Louisiana joined the Confederacy during the Great Rebellion, and was defeated along with the rest of the South. By the 1940s, Louisiana was a restive state barely kept in line by the the U.S. government, with sayings like "Yanks Out" painted on the walls. It was in New Orleans that the FBS broke-up a major gun-smuggling ring designed to bring chaos to the region.

Louisiana in "Secret Names"
KayJuns or Cajuns were clans of hunter-gathers residing in the former state of Louisiana some two hundred years after the world wide calamity called the Big Oops. To the west were the tribes of the Eestexas regions with which the KayJans would on occasion trade and on others war.

Louisiana in Southern Victory
Louisiana joined the South in seceding, becoming part of the Confederate States upon its victory during the War of Secession.

Louisiana was one of the few states that solidly voted Radical Liberal through most of its history. When Jake Featherston and the Freedom Party came to power, Louisiana unsuccessfully attempted to resist Featherston's dictatorial ways.

See: Radical Liberal Louisiana for the full history.

Louisiana in The Two Georges
Louisiana was a province of the North American Union. It was located in the southern part of the Union, on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. New Orleans was the main city of the province. It bordered the province of Cranmer to the west, the one of Missouri to the north, the Cherokee Nation to the north-east, and Florida Provinve to the south-west.

Literary Note
The Louisiana Province of the this timeline is far bigger than the US State of the same name in OTL, and includes considerable portions of what we know as Texas and Mississippi. Florida is also bigger than in OTL, extending a long panhandle westwards until near New Orleans, which makes it share a border with Louisiana.