REa:these dens of iniquity
boy,thats a blast from the past!--it was one of the phrases my mother used to put down places we hung out (local soda shop!) when i was teen!
and when some one was a dissevled, "they looked like the wreck of the Hesperus"
and when she complained about our rooms being a mess, she likened them to 'the black hole of Calcuta'...
look out Juan, you're turning into my mother!
and remember, New Orleans was the Bible Belt-- this is not really true..
NO was, (and all of louisiana,) very catholic-and its still very french
in fact, its state constitution,is not based on english common law, as are the other 49, but on napolianic code- and this shows up in accounting, were "General Recognizes Accounting Practices"- a guide to accounting, notes that lousiana does not follow the same rules..
--it even plays out in vocabulary-- the state has parishes, not counties.. and of course it still celebrates Mardi Gras... in a big catholic way.. (and only in Spanish South America so you get anything that comes as close-- Rio's "carnival")-- the catholic influence is so strong, that before the US civil war, it was the second choice for irish immigrants, (after NY, with boston 3rd!)
the irish weren't treated any better there than in NY or New England, tho
