Down and (almost) out in New Orleans

摘要

Once New Orleans was the most important city in the South. Nowadays Louisiana looks enviously at its neighbours. Texas is exporting personal computers by the millions. Mississippi (never an object of envy before) has a $93om Nissan factory on the way. Louisiana, by contrast, is struggling to hold on to two of New Or-leans's proven losers—Harrah's Casino and the New Orleans Saints football team.