"There is a New Orleans city accent... associated with downtown New Orleans, particularly with the German and Irish Th…"

"A state of old tradition, Of old plantation days Makes good old Louisiana The sweetest of all states."

"Louisiana was as close to south Asia as the United States could get: it had spicy food, humidity, giant cockroaches a…"

"Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be as the egg is to the fowl, we shall sooner …"

"One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government — and they aren’t going to like it."

"Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum."

"So we pour it P.G.] in a Pernod bottle and start for New Orleans past iridescent lakes and orange gas flares, and swa…"

"Give me Louisiana, The state where I was born The state of snowy cotton, The best I've ever known; A state of sweet m…"

"Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air – moist, sultry, secretive, and far from f…"

"Oh, Miss Inez," Mrs. Reilly called in that accent that occurs south of New Jersey only in New Orleans, that Hoboken n…"