It was 33 years ago this past week that perhaps the most consequential and controversial election in the nation’s history took place here in the Bayou State. Edwin Edwards and David Duke squared off in a runoff election for governor. Not only were voters across the nation fascinated by what was taking place down in the deepest of the Deep South states, there was worldwide interest in a showdown between a controversial former governor and the former head of the Ku Klux Klan.