bingo. even worse I grew up in NYC even though I live in upstate NY now, I have lived in Oklahoma, Milwaukee California and Alaska. But yeah, I ain't from where you are. I have only been to New Orleans once, and loved it.
My deepest sympathy for your current yankeedom. You could always marry a nice southern girl and then you would know all about cousins. And she could cook. And make you a nice bourben and branch water. And she would not be very liberated,,just enough that you would think she was adorable.
Come to think of it, I was once interested in a third cousin, I think, but it was just too much for me to follow through with. Maybe I am not that smart, after all.