The travel site Trulia has released a fun image, a map of the U.S. showing which cities would be the most dangerous and overrun in a zombie outbreak or full-blown apocalypse. Trulia chose the cities numbered on the map by "highest hospital density, more congestion, fewer hardware stores, and higher walk scores." The only city in Louisiana that even shows up on the map is New Orleans, and it's second to last after Houston, TX.
Louisiana is a mostly rural state and features large swathes of wilderness, wetlands, and water. While those areas aren't completely uninhabited, they do present handicaps for the shambling, slow-moving undead. New Orleans is the largest city and the state, but it's the high walk score that really cripples the Big Easy. Once a few people are infected and move into the streets (or from the streets into buildings and homes) it's a rapid and practically inescapable zombie holocaust.
Thankfully, we here in south Louisiana would be in a good position to withstand the outbreak. Our more rural communities require vehicular travel, meaning the smaller number of zombies would have a harder time to find prey. I find this interesting in light of the sad fate of Lafayette in the excellent zombie novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. Lafayette was revealed to be "overrun," along with Baton Rouge, in a sequence involving a downed pilot fighting for her life in the Atchafalya swamp.The other factor that would be a HUGE plus for us here in LA is the predominance of gun owners. While guns aren't necessarily the perfect tool for zombie killing, they certainly make things easier and quicker.
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