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Long before Zora Neale Hurston had so named it in her famed anthropological book on Afrocreole culture, Mules and Men, the city of New Orleans had been noted as the home of American Voodoo.
That was due in part to the fact that African blood was mixed in with the very dirt of Creole Southern Louisiana, as well as the fact that enslaved Africans had almost single-handedly built the city. A city famed for its Spanish architure, which has historically been misrepresented as French, a la ‘The French Quarter.’ That is until the Italians came during the turn of the 20th century or the Mexicans at the turn of the 21th century.
While all three of these cultural groups originated from a highly pagan, ancestral-worshipping religious tradition, in New Orleans indigenous worship, like everything else since the sale of the territory with the Louisiana Purchase, was controlled by the Franco-Anglo cultural alliance. Today, that control of the pagan is called the New Age Movement, and is as white as ever.
With the exception of the Laveau Voodoo Family and some independent associated Voodoo practitioners, only small pockets of most rural, “two-headed” or ‘left-handed’ Root Doctors exist in the surrounding parishes. Otherwise, all of the rest seem to be French Quarter commodificationists.
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