Prior to 1968, all Louisiana parishes had a minimum of one member in the 105-member state House regardless of population.

McKeithen won 44 of 64 parishes, including every North Louisiana parish.

They are now found in only four Louisiana parishes and five Texas counties.

President Bush declared 34 Louisiana parishes as disaster areas and visited the area on September 3.

Over time Cajun became the firmly established language of many south Louisiana parishes.

Tornadoes skipped across several Louisiana parishes early yesterday.

The first in their family to make it big outside the Louisiana parishes.

Black registration fell afterwards from 161,410 to about 130,000 because of purges in several north Louisiana parishes.

Twenty-three Louisiana parishes are governed by home rule charters that allow them to pick a different form of government.

O'Hearn carried seven north Louisiana parishes, where conservatism was running strongly at the time.