Where the heck is Ben Franklin when he is needed?
Aside from a very brief period during Reconstruction (and thanks to federal troops) was really the only time NOLA was Republican (Anh Cao aside). Philadelphia was once of the premier Republican-led cities in the country for roughly 90 years (contrasting with corrupt, Tammany Hall Democrat NYC, which rarely elect GOP Mayors - Giuliani and Bloomberg having won 5 consecutive times on the ticket has been the longest stretch of control in the history of the city).
Once the Mayorship flipped to the Democrats with the 1951 elections, the local GOP slipped into decline before becoming nothing but a patronage rump of the Democrats. That should never have been allowed to occur. With a stronger party, the GOP would’ve won the Mayorship at least on a few occasions since.