Louisiana is historically ranked as having one of the highest levels of poverty in the nation when averaging the over all state.

I'm not an expert on this. I wouldn't even say I have base level knowledge of our states poverty statistics so if someone could shed some light in this query of mine that would be great.

South Louisiana has a multitude of people without college degrees making 80k a year working in the numerous petro/chemical plants that are dotted along the rivers leading to the gulf of Mexico. Along with the people who work offshore.

If you would cut Louisiana in half, everything north of say...Alexandria, would be it's own average and everything from Alexandria and South of it be its own average. How would those statistics look?

I have a feeling north louisiana, with the exception of Shreveport, is where the largest concentration of poverty exist. I assume this because of the lack of opportunities there available just on a geographical sense. It's not their fault, there just seems to be nothing up there.

Please know this is a very uninformed hypothesis I have. Which is why I'm interested to learn more about the state as a whole. Does anyone know if there was a study done that quantified Louisiana's poverty rates by region? I'd also like to see public education statistics as well.

Edit: Thanks to everyone who brought in input and data. Sincerely. This was something I very much wanted to learn more about. I love this state(even though it has magnitudes of problems) but realized I know next to nothing about the other half of it and wanted to know more. You guys brought opinions and data with sources sighted pointing me in the direction to learn more. Thank you and love you all.