Hmmmmm. I'll have to think about this. It just might work. If sold, those conservative screwballs in Shreveport couldn't keep trying to take the spice out of New Orleans' hot sauce.
And if the sale could be extended to the Louisiana Purchase, think of all those wuthless red states that we'd git shut of. But I don't think France could handle Kansas and Montana. I suspect they might try to sell them to Iran where fundamentalism is a way of life.