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Article: Through a purple (green and gold) haze: New Orleans Mardi Gras in the American imagination.(Essay)
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- Southern Cultures
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- June 22, 2008
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Long before I visited New Orleans I would visit it in my imagination.--Tom Piazza, Why New Orleans Matters (2005)
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There was not much color in Aggieland--at least not other than the maroon proudly flaunted by students at Texas A&M University. A month had passed since Hurricane Katrina devastated my hometown of New Orleans. Eager for a distraction from the daily news reports that told of more destruction and death, I decided to attend a concert in a very big country dance hall called the Texas Hall of Fame. The music was twang, the beer was Lone Star, the walls were purely Aggie. Or so I thought at first glance. As I wandered around the large hall ...