re: Is New Orleans considered to be “East of the Mississippi River?”

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If you were to pull the Mississippi River taut NOLA would be east of the river but with the exception of the terms East Bank and West Bank I’ve never heard any say the city is east of the river.

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No one uses that term for the city specifically.

If you hear a designation like that it would be something like the rare “biggest/best/worst…. East of the Mississippi”

I recall once seeing the claim that French quarter fest was the largest free festival east of the Mississippi once for instance.

It isn’t common though