Yeah, when I lived there, a lot of native New Orleans dialect had a lot in common with Brooklyn to my ears. Started work there at the same time as a school cla

Yeah, when I lived there, a lot of native New Orleans dialect had a lot in common with Brooklyn to my ears. Started work there at the same time as a school classmate who grew up in Jacksonville. Spent a lot of time doing engineering work on offshore drilling rigs. Told my friend I really had trouble understanding people a lot of the time. He said he did as well :-)