re: Nola Article..New Orleans losing its soul

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Would it be correct to say that Houston killed New Orleans?

another port that allowed companies to avoid Louisiana and its ineptitude entirely?

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That’s akin a the following scenario:

A husband is a wife-beater,
the wife divorces him,
the wife then meets and marries a man who doesn’t beat her
the original husband blames the second husband for breaking up his marriage.

People & organizations (including businesses) move away from pain.

Trying to function in and amidst NOLA is painful to a business that has experience in the normal parts of the US.

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Again with this crap. Go back and look at the murder stats for Baton Rouge in the early 90’s. National leader per capita

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aw, sorry you're so triggered. But I actually said nothing about crime. I was talking about the influx of people BR was ill prepared to accommodate.

thanks for being a racist and jumping to conclusions though. Gravy says "hello"

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Growing up, I really don’t remember residents being so self-aware of their kitschy culture.

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Just look at Mardi Gras. Before Katrina, the parades in the city were bleeding members, and the suburban parades were mostly growing.

Now, everyone wants to ride in the city.

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I don’t recall the caricature. I think that mostly came after Katrina with the outpouring of fluer de lis everywhere and Who Dat etc.

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When you experience a traumatic event, you grab on to the things closest to you, even if you never did before. People clung to stuff like this (no doubt aided by the O-T's favorite small business owner, Ms. Fleurty Girl).

Losing as much as we did, followed by a sense of civic pride resulting from the rebuilding, has caused an explosion of "NOLA", fleur de lis, etc.

Excellent observation, biglego

Were the removed statues brought up?

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I love these articles that suggest that New Orleans is losing it's culture because white people are moving in. Because white people don't have culture or appreciate other cultures, I guess.

From the article's comments section:

This article is a great argument against immigration, though that wasn't the author's intention. Consider the following: "Outsiders (who used to only visit) are putting down roots, tilting the delicate balance between those residents who move to the city because they love it and those who naturally embody the city’s culture because they live it." So if we replace "the city" in this sentence with "the USA" we have one of Trump's arguments. Or is it only bad when white people displace black people, not the reverse? Isn't that racist?

I upvoted your post because in general it was good, but you're a little off on this part:

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Just look at Mardi Gras. Before Katrina, the parades in the city were bleeding members, and the suburban parades were mostly growing.

Now, everyone wants to ride in the city.

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While Katrina may have accelerated the process, this change was really happening well before Katrina.

In Orleans, you had the 3 old-line Krewes (Momus, Proteus, Comus) go away in the early 1990s after the Dorothy Mae Taylor fiasco. But then you had the rise of the other big newer Krewes (and return of Proteus) well before Katrina:

Orpheus: 1994
Krewe D'Etat: 1998
Ancient Druids: 1999
Chaos: 2000
Return of Proteus: 2000
Muses: 2001

The only BIG new one in New Orleans since Katrina is Nyx (2012).


In Jefferson Parish, the decline also started well before Katrina, they weren't "mostly growing", the decline started as early as 1999 (the last year of a full, "every day" schedule).

These are the Metairie Krewes that left and their dates (thanks, Arthur Hardy):
Helios (1958-1977)
Mardi Gras (1975-1994)
Neptune (1996-1997)
Diana (1969-1999)
Sinbad (1990-1999)
Saturn (1984-2005)(actually moved to New Orleans in the 1990s)
Mercury (1986-2005)
Jason (1964-1976, 2002-2007)
Aquila (1977-2008)
Rhea (1971-2011)
Atlas (1970-2013)
Thor (1974-2013)
Zeus (1958-2014)
Napoleon (1981-2018)
Caesar (1979-2019)