It is said that while campaigning in southern Louisiana, Huey Long was told that many voters were Catholic.

“When I was a boy,” he began speeches, “I would get up at six o’clock in the morning on Sunday, and I would take my Catholic grandparents to mass. I would bring them home, and at ten o’clock I would hitch the old horse up again, and I would take my Baptist grandparents to church.”

A colleague later said, “I didn’t know you had any Catholic grandparents.”

To which he replied, “Don’t be a damned fool. We didn’t even have a horse.”