New Orleans stronger shared history with what city? (Irish, child)

[grapico]

No, it's from an article.

Top 10 Annoying Stereotypes About New Orleans

We’re in the South and therefore behave like “Southerners”.

Excuse me while I put down my mint julep, button up my seersucker jacket and tell my twelve Baptist children to be quiet while I explain a little history to you. First of all, the South is a region with distinct, varied cultures. This diversity is especially obvious in New Orleans, a port city that has a stronger historical relationship with Haiti, Paris and Cuba than it does with Houston, Atlanta and most major Southern cities. Pick up Ned Sublette’s The World That Made New Orleans.

[polo89]

Originally Posted by Deezus

It was a mix of Creole whites and free Creole blacks(who themselves often owned slaves) and their slaves who fled to New Orleans around 1809 after they were expelled from Cuba--where they had fled previously to from Haiti after the Haitian Revolution. The influence from Haiti is largely of this Creole culture. It wasn't former slaves who fled it was the remnants of the upper class slaveholding society of Haiti that was destroyed after the Revolution there.

YEP. But Haiti was split into 2 different kingdoms within the country. Southern Haiti was ruled by lighter-toned mixed-race "grimeux" blacks, and ruled specifically by "King" Alexandre Pétion. While Northern Haiti was ruled by dark-skinned blacks and former slaves, specifically ruled by Henri Christophe "Henry I, King of Haïti".

[BajanYankee]

Random poll.

I voted Houston. New Orleans was under French control for less than 90 years. It's been under American control for nearly 200.

[polo89]

Not 2 mention, Houston and East Texas have their own Creole communities.

[Nairobi]

I don't think most here (including the author of that article) are able to make the distinction between "shared history" with another city and the influence that early settlers had on one city. The relics of the city definitely highlight influences from Europe and the Caribbean, but the average New Orleanian of today has little to no connection with either of those places.

The correct answer is Houston. Period.

[_birminghamster_]

Why isn't Mobile on this poll? It would be the obvious choice.

Mardi Gras and a huge French influence, major Gulf Coast ports, and lots of French names (for what that's worth).

And as to New Orleans' non-Southernness, I would argue that the entire area of south Louisiana, the Mississippi Gulf Coast and Mobile County, AL has a distinct culture that is not Southern. This is probably due to early French influences. Those 90 years had a much bigger impact than some might think.

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by _birminghamster_

Why isn't Mobile on this poll? It would be the obvious choice.

Mardi Gras and a huge French influence, major Gulf Coast ports, and lots of French names (for what that's worth).

And as to New Orleans' non-Southernness, I would argue that the entire area of south Louisiana, the Mississippi Gulf Coast and Mobile County, AL has a distinct culture that is not Southern. This is probably due to early French influences. Those 90 years had a much bigger impact than some might think.

The Mississippi and Alabama coast are southern. Heck the accents in Biloxi make you think you are way up in Arkansas or something. They have some remnants of the French but nothing quite like Louisiana.

[Nairobi]

Originally Posted by annie_himself

The Mississippi and Alabama coast are southern.

And so is South Louisiana. I don't know why people continue to deny it.

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by Nairobi

And so is South Louisiana. I don't know why people continue to deny it.

It is. But the ties between the rest of the coast aren't really as strong as some like to believe.

[Nairobi]

Originally Posted by annie_himself

It is. But the ties between the rest of the coast aren't really as strong as some like to believe.

They're also not as weak as some of the locals like to believe (e.g. the author of that article).

Foreigners aren't the only ones that settled New Orleans. Americans did, too, and, for MOST of the city's history, it has been an American, Southern town. This is a fact evident in the present culture of the city.