You didn't understand that post, obviously it's not more progressive. What I was saying is that people from New Orleans, and in my experience white people are particularly prone to this, tend to vastly overestimate how much better New Orleans is on this front.
Ironically part of this comes from the very problem with folding hinterlands into a city that you were complaining about earlier. Except it makes even less sense here because there are two cities in the district.
Your last point doesn't make much sense to me. Conservatism has something to do with racism, that's part of why I'm saying New Orleans isn't as progressive as many seem to think it is.
It's not like New Orleans has a reputation for not being racist. I'd wager its association with progressivism probably comes mostly from the fact that the city has traditionally cared little about white people's sexual orientation.
I agree, I was actually referring to the person on page 1 that told me this incident was specifically "conservative hate" versus just plain old "hate".