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"The Wisdom of Chief Slacabamorinico"
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It has been estimated that local
resident participation in Mardi Gras in New Orleans is 50% and in Mobile some
44% to 50%. Naturally many people participate over and over or the percentage
would be even higher. For example during both the 1996 and 1997 Mardi Gras
parading season in Mobile, police estimated over 1 million people attended the
parades - this in a Metro area of perhaps 250,000. New Orleans participation is
similar proportioned in relation to population.
Such massive involvement is as
extraordinary as people zany behavior during the season. Mardi Gras has not only
a strong attraction, but a durable one as well. Crowds and events continue to
increase.
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In a survey of 404 Mobile and
Baldwin county residents conducted for the Mobile Press Register by the
University of South Alabama Polling Group from February 3-6, 1997, 44% of those
responding indicated that they attended at least one parade.
2 Had the poll dealt only with Mobile city or county residents the
percentage would have most likely topped the 50% mark.
Samuel Kinser wrote in his
classic volume Carnival American Style: Mardi Gras at New Orleans and Mobile,
"Of the thirty largest urban concentrations in the United States none other
has a festival of civic importance which is as old as Mardi Gras, and no large
or middle-sized city, not even Pasadena with its Tournament of Roses spectacle
or Philadelphia with its Mummers' Parade, has anything approaching New Orleans'
apparent and Mobile's probable 50-percent participation." 1
1. Kinser, Samuel. Carnival
American Style: Mardi Gras at New Orleans and Mobile. The University of
Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 1990.
2. Mobile Register
Poll, The Mobile Press Register, Mobile, Alabama, Sunday, February
9, 1997.
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