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.

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

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Posted by BRich

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Posted on 8/28/19 at 1:52 pm to LSUFanHouston

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.

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)

This post was edited on 9/10/19 at 9:52 am

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