New Orleans stronger shared history with what city? (Baton Rouge, Shreveport: home, vs.)

[PortCity]

Historically Mobile has more in common with New Orleans than Savannah and Houston.At one time Mobile had a strong Creole culture. Some of Mobile's old Creole neighborhoods are in tact. Mobile was under French, Spanish, and English rule. The city is majority Catholic rather than Southern Baptist both cities were founded by the same Canadian French brothers. The French founder of Detroit Mr.Cadillac lived in Mobile for almost 15 years as Governor of French Louisiana before he found Detroit. Mobile's history is very identical to Nola's and the city has history with Cuba and slave trade with St.Domingue. Mobile and Havana both have identical statues of Le Moyne De Iberville and they both face each other in the same direction.

[Jimbo_1]

Originally Posted by PortCity

Historically Mobile has more in common with New Orleans than Savannah and Houston.At one time Mobile had a strong Creole culture. Some of Mobile's old Creole neighborhoods are in tact. Mobile was under French, Spanish, and English rule. The city is majority Catholic rather than Southern Baptist both cities were founded by the same Canadian French brothers. The French founder of Detroit Mr.Cadillac lived in Mobile for almost 15 years as Governor of French Louisiana before he found Detroit. Mobile's history is very identical to Nola's and the city has history with Cuba and slave trade with St.Domingue. Mobile and Havana both have identical statues of Le Moyne De Iberville and they both face each other in the same direction.

Is Mobile majority Catholic? According to statistics on Catholic membership, Mobile county is only 9% Catholic which is well below New Orleans and Mobile has a much bigger Southern Baptist population than New Orleans. I would agree that both New Orleans and Mobile had similar beginnings, its just that both cities have diverged as time past. Mobile has lost a lot of its French/Spanish/Creole culture, influences and populations compared to New Orleans. Mobile also had and has a much stronger "typical" Southern culture and influence than New Orleans. Plus Mobile received a lot less European immigrants which were groups that heavily shaped New Orleans.

[PortCity]

I'm not to sure about the accuracy of that website. There are more Catholic churches than southern baptist. And yes Mobile has lost a lot of culture but I wouldn't say the culture is traditionally southern.The city is more Gulf Southern . All an all there is nothing like Nola but if their is any city outside of Louisiana that share simularities it would be Mobile. Savanna and Charleston are architectual gems but the history and historical ties are not the same.

[Jimbo_1]

Originally Posted by PortCity

I'm not to sure about the accuracy of that website. There are more Catholic churches than southern baptist. And yes Mobile has lost a lot of culture but I wouldn't say the culture is traditionally southern.The city is more Gulf Southern . All an all there is nothing like Nola but if their is any city outside of Louisiana that share simularities it would be Mobile. Savanna and Charleston are architectual gems but the history and historical ties are not the same.

Even if those statistics were not totally accurate I can't imagine that percentage changing too much. Even if there are more Catholic churches than Southern Baptist churches (not sure where that information was found), I would bet there are more Baptist (all Baptist) churches and population. The Mobile Archdiocese website, itself, says the Catholic population is 67,488 out of 1,772,873 people (28 Alabama counties), and Mobile would be a fraction of that Catholic population. Though, those numbers are probably a little under-reported. I never said the culture is only traditionally Southern, just that it is more so than New Orleans. But Mobile definitely still has its unique attributes. I'd probably agree that in the South, Mobile is the most similar city to New Orleans, outside South Louisiana, but those similarities have dwindled since colonial days and are kind of small.

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by PortCity

I'm not to sure about the accuracy of that website. There are more Catholic churches than southern baptist. And yes Mobile has lost a lot of culture but I wouldn't say the culture is traditionally southern.The city is more Gulf Southern . All an all there is nothing like Nola but if their is any city outside of Louisiana that share simularities it would be Mobile. Savanna and Charleston are architectual gems but the history and historical ties are not the same.

Gulf Coast is a better representation of the culture, IMO. Mobile doesn't really feel like the rest of Alabama or it's surrounding states. I don't think there are many Catholics though, probably similar to Alexandria.

[ParadigmizedFactions]

Cuba is not a city. Cities in Cuba that have a lot in common with New Orleans however are Havana and Santiago de Cuba.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by ParadigmizedFactions

Cuba is not a city. Cities in Cuba that have a lot in common with New Orleans however are Havana and Santiago de Cuba.

At one time, New Orleans and Havana were major trading partners.

[KathrynAragon]

Originally Posted by ElleKaye

I was going to say New Orleans feels most similar to Savannah or Mobile.

For sure, no matter what happened in the past, Atlanta and New Orleans are absolutely nothing and I do mean nothing alike.

I'm not comfortable with any of the options given in the poll, but I guess if push came to shove and I had to make a choice from those, it would be Houston.

I agree. Since Mobile and Savannah aren't on the poll, my vote goes to Houston, but a bit reluctantly.

And in my opinion, New Orleans is definitely a SOUTHERN city in every sense of the word. About as southern as one can get, literally and figuratively. But what I love about it is that it's southern AND a bag of chips, so to speak. It's got the charms of the south in abundance, but then it's got all that extra "flavoring" as well. There's simply no other city like it on earth, which is why polls like this are really sort of pointless. Nawlins can't be put neatly into any one box.

[CaptCameltoe]

After visitin NOLA for 4 hours which is the longest amount of time I have spent there since movin to La almost 3 years ago. I would say it's haitis sister city and I haven't found any real Southern feel in this entire state of La below I-10 IMO. Once you get above I-10 you start to get into more of a Southern culture IMO.

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by CaptCameltoe

Once you get above I-10 you start to get into more of a Southern culture IMO.

Ohh you mean them country folks.