Lets see, Florida has multiple hurricanes and
gets immediate, and I mean immediate, response for
republiCo family member Jeb.

Louisiana has a Democratic governor who narrowly beat her republican opponent to become the first women governor of Louisiana in 130 years, New Orleans has a tough talking mayor in Ray Nagin who turned democrat in 2002 and won his election by beating 14 opponents(a) including the the Dem police chief Richard Pennington who came in second and was the favorite of "GOP heavyweights" who no doubt were behind the anonymous  "smear" phone(b) calls about Nagin targeting white new orleanians

(a)-http://robwalker.net/html_docs/nodiarist.html
(b)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Nagin