A survey out of LSU finds 61-percent of Louisiana residents believe the state is heading in the wrong direction. The Louisiana Survey polled more than one thousand adults in March and April and only 30-percent said the state is heading in the right direction. Director of the Louisiana Survey Professor Michael Henderson says these numbers are similar to the last couple of years.
“We often see more folks saying the states heading the wrong direction instead of the right direction. Its been three years in a row where the people say the wrong direction outnumber the people say right direction by about two to one.”
Henderson says this is the second consecutive year that 61-percent of the respondents said the state is heading in the wrong direction…
“People in both parties both under a Democrat administration last year and a Republican administration this year feel pretty sour about the direction of the state.”
Twenty-eight percent of the respondents told the Louisiana survey that crime is the biggest problem in the state, up from 19 percent last year.
But 36 percent of the respondents have confidence that state government can address their concerns and that’s up eight-percent from last year.
“We got a little bit of good news here a little bit of a glass half full. Its still relatively low, about a third of Louisiana residents have some confidence in the state government to tackle the problems they are most concerned about but that number has come up.”
