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1. Audience 2. Jishian Ravinthiran 3.Visual (Represents how civil tensions affect the relationship between the various audiences in the city). 4. The main audience for the attraction and conflicts of New Orlean's were minorities, as seen in the behavior of racial groups within the city. The article "New Orlean's History" states, "Using modern technology, developers drained marshlands and built new neighborhoods, and white residents moved in as soon as they could" (//Tureaud).//Because discrimination and prejudice persisted in New Orleans after the second World War due to building tension during the first half of the 20th century, there was a strong shift in the people who desired to live at the heart of New Orlean's melting pot of cutlures. During this time "white residents" took advantage of advancing technologies that made the swamp lands outside the heart of New Orlean's manageable at the end of the 1940's to 1950's. This repulsion with the melting pot of minority cultures within New Orlean's indicates that the audience for New Orlean's atmosphere was not the caucasian population, which made New Orlean's progressively more diverse as Whites left for other races to move in to the diversity the city offered. The article "A Brief History of New Orleans" states, "African-Americans and Creoles, once a vibrant part of the city’s culture and social scene, were now excluded and marginalized in the city they helped found. A rare American city that started off with various ethnic groups for the most part getting along had become like most American cities in the 50s and 60s with racial tensions that occasionally broke out into riots" (//The Institute for New Orleans History and Culture at Gwynedd-Mercy College//). Because the article states that New Orleans had become like other American cities by the 1950's and 1960's, it can be inferred that the ethnic groups would have been "getting along" during the years prior to this period. However, because tensions over civil rights had simmered to their peak the audience base of New Orlean's cultural atmosphere began to collapse as Whites fiercely did not want to associate with Blacks while those who remained during the 1950's facilitated in alienating the "African Americans and Creoles" who became "excluded" from the city they helped "found." This reversed New Orlean's attractive theme for its normal audience, dividing the various ethnicities as mutual hostility and alienation began to magnify.

Work Cited "A Brief History of New Orleans." //The Institute for New Orleans History and Culture at Gwynedd-Mercy College//. Gwynedd-Mercy College, n.d. Web. 2 Apr. 2013.

"New Orlean's History." //Tureaud.// Tureaud Events and Productions, //n.d.// Web. 1 Apr. 2013.