I moved to the New Orleans, Coastal Louisiana area in 1998 and lived there until I went to college. My family moved to the Orlando, Central Florida area in 2005 because of Hurricane Katrina in the New Orleans area that year.
The oldest continuing city in the US is named Saint Augustine and is in Northeastern Florida. Florida is a popular modern culture hub of the US, at least some of it. The rest of the US held onto its culture, it seems, and the people in Florida are mostly recent immigrants from Up North. However, New Orleans, Down South, is a popular cultural rival because the people there lived there since maybe the 1600s.
The oldest continuing city in the US, Saint Augustine, Northeastern Florida, is Spanish or "Hispanic" and founded in 1565. They battled the French there. New Orleans, Coastal Louisiana is French. It is interesting to me I just found that the architecture in New Orleans was influenced by the Spanish also though. I moved there right after living in the old Spanish city, and it didn't seem very old, though, because I was used to the much older city. New Orleans I think was settled in the 1600s, but it says when I read about the architecture that it was founded in the early 1700s.
The difference between the antique architecture is interesting...
Saint Augustine, Northeastern Florida - Spanish City
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New Orleans, Coastal Louisiana - French City
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