Mood in state capitals of Alabama and Louisiana (11)
I believe the answer is:
conditional
'mood' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'state capitals of alabama and louisiana' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'state' could be 'condition' (condition is a kind of state) and 'condition' is found within the answer.
'alabama' could be 'al' (abbreviation) and 'al' is located in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for conditional that I've seen before include "Dependent" , "Tense" , "needing qualifications?" , "Subject to provisos" , "With strings attached" .)