Talk:Metairie, Louisiana

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I removed the following from the article:

Metairie was the second largest unincorporated place in the United States in 1980, with a population of 164,160. Today it ranks 5th in the nation, behind Honolulu, Hawaii, Paradise, Nevada, Arlington, Virginia, and Sunrise Manor, Nevada.

Technically, this rank should refer to census-designated places and not unincorporated places, which would mean Honolulu doesn't belong here because it is, in fact, coterminous with Honolulu County. Honolulu proper (the specific "city") is incorporated within Honolulu District VI; it simply isn't its own independent city as most U.S. cities are. If we're going by CDPs, Metairie should be 4th largest in the U.S. Unincorporated place is different; if that were the case here, Arlington wouldn't be on this list (incorporated as a county) but Silver Spring, Maryland would. Comments appreciated so this info can go back in the article. --Pastricide 23:36, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Exactly, Honolulu is not an independent city. The City and County of Honolulu covers the entire island of Oahu (i.e. includes rural areas, mountains, etc.), has a population of around 800,000, and includes an area much larger than I think any Hawaiian refers to as being in "Honolulu". Hawaii has no incorporated municipalities (i.e. subcounty units), thus for its statistical purposes the Census Bureau has defined the "Honolulu CDP", as it does in other such cases such as Metairie. Honolulu CDP is the urban area on the southeast shore of Oahu, is what locals would generally refer to as "Honolulu", and has about half of the population of the entire City and County. Metairie is the 5th largest CDP and the article has been reworded accordingly. Gellersen 00:22, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Correct, but if you look deep into the 1980 census; Metairie was the 2nd largest CDP in the nation after Honolulu with a population of 164,160; due to the fact that Paradise, Nevada only had 84,818 residents; Sunrise Manor, Nevada had only had 44,155 and Arlington, Virginia dropped from 174,284 in 1970 to 152,599 in 1980.--Moreau36 1628, 2 September 2005 (EDT)

NOTE: Census Designated Places are not counted at the county level. They're "equal" counterparts to incorporated cities, towns (in most states), and villages. There no incorporated cities or towns in Arlington County. (Virginia has a law stating that places in heavily dense counties cannot incorporate into cities; see: Independent City.); but due to it's density plus the county's size made it possible for the census to treat the CDP as co-extensive to the county like New Orleans is co-extensive with Orleans Parish or San Francisco, California is to San Francisco County.

Why were references to white flight removed from this page as vandalism? That's definitely part of what lead to the growth of Metairie. Also, why was the reference to David Duke removed? He did represent Metairie in the Lousiana House.

About the schools: Riverdale isn't mentioned anywhere. I know it has some kind of wacky status as far as public schools go, but it still merits an entry.

Riverdale isn't actually in Metairie, it's in a community south of metairie known as Old Jefferson. Metairie's southern border is currently airline highway, but was traditionally the railroad tracks (Illinois Central) several hundred yards south of the highway.Ilikefish0 05:37, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi y'all there's a book that I think should be added to the links: Metairie: A Tongue of Land to Pasture

By Msgr. Henry C. Bezou

Written by a respected historian in the mid-1970's, Metairie: A Tongue of Land to Pasture has recently been re-printed in softbound form. The book is available in local bookstores and is available for viewing at any parish library.

I took this blurb from: http://www.jeffersonhistoricalsociety.com/Publications/otherjeffersonbooks.htm

[edit] Lafreniere Park

Being a huge part of Metairie, I felt the beautiful Lafreniere Park needed a small reference on the page. I live nearby and will be out to take high resolution photos (if the weather ever clears up) and use Photoshop to put them into one image to be thumbnailed on the page. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

Megastealer 16:43, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

This seems like too much attention to give to one park in Metairie.

Elliotte Rusty Harold 21:54, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

After thinking about it for a while, you are right. I should probably list names of parks under recreation, and move the Lafreniere Park topic to its own page. I'll get to it soon.

Megastealer 16:48, 26 January 2007 (UTC)