Robert is an

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Tangipahoa Parish Tangipahoa Parish (; French: ''Paroisse de Tangipahoa'') is a parish located in the southeast corner of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 121,097. The parish seat is Amite City, while the largest city is ...

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, United States. It lies east of Hammond, at the intersection of

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and LA 445, from which it has a signed exit on

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. Robert is the largest settlement in Tangipahoa Parish's rural 8th

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. The community, which has 20 streets and one stoplight, was thrust into the international spotlight when the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command was established at the

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Robert Training and Conference Center to coordinate response to the

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in 2010.

Notable employers

Robert is home to diverse employers: * Regina Coeli Child Development Center oversees Head Start programs in six of Louisiana's

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. *

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has a large distribution center east of Robert on the road (US 190) to Goodbee, Louisiana. * Yogi Bear Jellystone Park is a resort encampment near the Robert (LA 445) interchange on Interstate 12. * Florida Parishes Juvenile Detention Center, a rehabilitation institution for wayward youths, is physically located within Tangipahoa Parish along its boundary with

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east of Robert. *

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attracts thousands of tourists who pass through Robert annually in November en route to the festival grounds on

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(Tangipahoa River Road). * Louisiana State University's Agricultural Experiment Station occupies along

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(Old Covington Highway) near the west bank of the Tangipahoa River across from Robert.

Political demographics

In elections during the 2000s (decade), Robert demonstrated an unusually homogeneous voting behavior. In the 2008 Democratic presidential primary,

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’s Louisiana vote was 57.40 percent; in Tangipahoa Parish, Obama won a plurality of 39.81 percent; but in Robert (Tangipahoa Parish Precinct 122)

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beat Obama 45 to 9 (a 5:1 ratio) among 64 votes cast. With comparable pluralities

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carried the state and the parish over

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on the Republican side; but, in Robert, Huckabee won with a 59.96 percent majority (among 79 votes cast). In the 2008 presidential election, McCain and running-mate

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carried Louisiana and Tangipahoa Parish by comparable majorities but trounced Obama and Joe Biden in Robert with 87.54 percent.

Bombing range

During

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a tract northeast of Robert served as the Hammond Bombing and Gunnery Range. As late as 2009 the 300 property owners in the tract were still under legal obligation to disclose the potential for unexploded ordnance. " sidents cannot do as they wish with their properties . . . uthave a moral obligation to reveal that it was a bombing range during a sale" according to Bruce Harrell CPA.Quoted in Don Ellzey
Property owner stuck in Bombing Range: Corps surveyors search for any explosives
in '' Daily Star'' (Hammond), 2009 October 29, pp. 1A, 8A (Harrell quoted on p. 1A).

Notes

{{authority control Bombing ranges Unincorporated communities in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana Unincorporated communities in Louisiana United States home front during World War II