JUL 4, postal places, USA: Baton Rouge, LA

a) Reprise from material posted on July 4 in previous years ...

2020: political palindromes, GGG (wordplay)
2021: anagram swarm, election fraud (wordplay maps) 
2022: anagram swarm, election fraud (wordplay contest)
2023: geographic fantasy, Latin states of America (maps)

b) Today's Offering (Jul 4, 2024):

poetry lyrics:/ Faced with land loss and global deluge,/ Solid MAGA-red pols,
  Baton Rouge,/  LA, spout denial,/ Self-delusion so vile,/ Economic and eco-costs:
 huge! 

Authors' Note: LA is the official abbreviation for the American state of Louisiana, whose capital, Baton Rouge, with population 230,000, is situated 100 miles (160km) upriver from New Orleans.

   The original site, protected from flooding by its situation on bluffs along the east side of the Mississippi, had originally noted by exploring Europeans for a pole marking the dividing-line between two aboriginal territories. It was designated as the state capital in 1846, replacing New Orleans in that role, and with extension, its port became the tenth busiest in the US. The city hosts the flagship campuses of Louisiana State University and Southern University.

In recent decades, the Republican party acquired a strangle-hold on almost all local, state, and federal officials elected in Louisiana. Although Louisiana is otherwise agreed as being one of the locales on the planet most affected by climate change, coastal erosion and other negative results of human activity, resistance to that realization seems strongly entrenched locally.

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