The differences have little to do with national politics and more to do with the states' proximity to big refineries and to new bountiful shale fields in the center of the country.
(A small example: Toyota means "bountiful rice field" and Honda means "main rice field").
What makes this southwestern corner of Louisiana attractive to Sasol is its proximity to bountiful shale gas fields just north of here and west in Texas.
Just a few miles to the west are Ahmadi, the administrative center of the Kuwait Oil Company, and the bountiful Burgan oil field, where the stores of oil that essentially created modern Kuwait were discovered in 1938.
Not so long ago, the Loop farm was a pastoral vision, with its bountiful mesquite and cotton fields and orange groves.
On a half-hour helicopter flight with Gen. Mario Montoya over what was once Colombia's most bountiful coca-producing region, fields that once were bright green with coca and other plants were a pale brown, wiped free of vegetation for miles around.
It includes a noirish Classics Illustrated comic book of Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment"; engrossing stories about pirates combining terror and adventure; and beautifully illustrated, moralizing accounts of trials conducted by animals, like "Who Killed Cock Robin?" Professor Cohen saw law, its study and its practice, as a bountiful, all-encompassing, humanistic field.
Within a season of applying the white powder, farmers like Mr. Ali had transformed a long-degraded land into a field that yielded bountiful crops of rice and wheat.
It was this lush topsoil and the bountiful seas and bays, so like the fields and waters of their native Kent, that attracted English settlers to the South Fork more than three centuries ago.
3. Beltane is a celebration of the early summer and in agricultural times affirmed the fertility of the fields and the promise of a bountiful harvest.
