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I lived in Louisiana for a few years. I'm a white yankee and I used to dread situations where I'd end up in a room full of white native Louisiana dudes that I didn't know very well. Absolutely guaranteed that within ten minutes somebody would throw out the N-word and then everybody would be laughing and saying racist shit.
The worst was when I was a member at the local YMCA. Fat old white dudes that worked at the courthouse (like judges and prosecutors) would sit around naked on nasty old leather couches in the locker room literally making jokes about sending innocent black men to Angola prison.
The only reason I can't say Louisiana is the worst state in the country is that I also lived in Mississippi.
I travel a lot for work, and get to Louisiana regularly. I'm not a native, so I don't spend much time with the people, but at least LA has a culture, with at least two great foods - Cajun and Creole - and fantastic music of all kinds. I come from Central Florida, which doesn't even have a culture, other than just the most commercial bullshit in existence.
I was a grad student in NC, I'd (white guy) be sitting alone at the bar having a Guinness, couple other whites dudes take a seat, start chatting, 75% of the time the racial jokes start after the second beer.
I 100% would have recorded these conversations and leaked them