This page is mostly blank - just like regional cooperation in the NO Metro Area.

Race is the number one reason the other parishes won't cooperate with Orleans. Something obvious like establishing a light rail system raises all sorts of racially focused issues.

Of course if New Orleans was re-incorporated to include the entire MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area) it would become a majority white city for the next 35 years. This would be totally unacceptable to the politicians who now control the city. And it would be unacceptable to the politicians who hold an absolute mandate in the surrounding parishes.

Most talk about regional cooperation centers on a consolidated Crime Lab for the area police departments and a consolidated Regional Transit Authority. So far it's all talk. The state would have to intervene constitutionally to allow a multi-parish incorporation of the metro area to become a reality.