Everyone calm down, these things happen. Whenever there is a hotly debated election, somebody threatens to secede. It's actually happened relatively often before. And if you read the article, it sais the petition got around 25,000 signatures. There are over 4.5 million people in Louisiana. That means only about .0056% of the population signed it. Donald Trump said we should have a revolution too. It's just people who were supporting a good candidate and lost blowing off steam