Posted on 08/18/2025 5:45:35 AM PDT by Rev M. Bresciani
New Orleans is the most unique city in the United States, a 307-year-old gem of beauty, history, and culture. It is the birthplace of jazz and musical legends such as Fats Domino and Louis Armstrong. New Orleans features the French Quarter, the Garden District, streetcars, amazing restaurants, incredible architecture, and world class events such as the Jazz and Heritage Festival and Mardi Gras.
With so many wonderful attractions, New Orleans should have a thriving economy, a wealthy population, and excellent public services. Instead, New Orleans is in a perpetual state of crisis, with decaying infrastructure, dilapidated streets, rampant violent crime, substandard public schools, a poor economy, and public officials who are either inept or corrupt.
Today, New Orleans is in serious trouble. August 29 is the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Prior to the storm, the population of New Orleans was 484,674, yet the current population of New Orleans is only 351,399, a staggering loss of over 27%.
Sadly, between 2020 and 2024 the New Orleans area lost 39,000 people, a decline of 3.9%, the highest in the nation for “the second year in a row.” During this period, New Orleans was the “Murder Capital” of the nation in 2022, a contributing factor to the population loss.
Another reason people are fleeing from New Orleans is the devastating result of leftwing political leadership. The last Republican Mayor of New Orleans, Benjamin Flanders, left office in 1872. Democrats have enjoyed total control of the city’s most powerful position for 153 years.
There is not one Republican among all the elected officials in New Orleans. Democrats have been elected to all positions on the school board, council, judgeships, and New Orleans based state legislative seats.
With progressive policies dominating New Orleans, the results are catastrophic.
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New Orleans has always been corrupt. I doubt the city has ever had Republicans in office. The major difference is that the corrupt Democrats are now black and not white.
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