Bobby Jindal with his mother Raj, father Amar and youger brother Nikesh at Baton Rouge airport on his last campaign stop on Friday night. He was born six months after his parents emigrated to the US.
Had he won on the race on Saturday, he would have been the first non-white to be elected governor in the Deep South -- widely associated with American apartheid -- since the end of the American Civil War in 1865.
Photograph: Paresh Gandhi/rediff.com