"ain't gonna let no other flag fly over this state"

As we're winding back to the Magazine Street side, Meinert stops the cart again. "Don't tell me they did that," he says, looking toward a group of soldiers who've set up camp 100 yards away. He says it again, more loudly: "Don't tell me they did that." I'm assuming they chopped down a tree or something—there are a couple of big ones down in our field of vision. "They're flying the Texas flag," he says. "Ain't gonna let no other flag fly over this state."

Best statement ever.

This is a good-ish essay that takes you through this new New Orleans. I'll be dammned if Texas annexes Louisiana.